Originally Posted by
cerbus
That the local population with no people skills to say nothing of management skills will dictate to you what they want all the while ordering more Costa coffee and ordering more Warning Letters. All for what?
Whose resigning and when? That's another thread.
Seriously? Warning letters for the sim check? What on earth is going on out there these days?
Regarding single engine taxi - Boeing won't write a procedure as they have stated in the FCTM. Since it's their plane and they don't sell SE taxi as a plus point it seems they don't recommend it... it's up to the airline to come up with a supplementary procedure having assessed the risks. And in that supplementary procedure there is a long list of reasons when NOT to do it... and they all pretty much apply to every flight.
Therefore if you get it wrong they more than likely can put the blame on you as you didn't follow the supplementary procedure. So please make sure you know that list before you shut that engine down!
To be fair I never had an email to explain my reasons for not doing SE taxi.
I know that the common trick is to shut one down as you approach the gate but this could potentially distract you at a critical time and you might have trouble justifying it to the prosecution in court...
It all comes back to my favorite safety motto:
"THE REAL ENEMY OF SAFETY IS NOT NON-COMPLIANCE, BUT NON-THINKING"
A quote from Dr Rob Long courtesy of EK's excellent Human Factors office ;-)