@ vilas
Conditioned reflex is much more obvious with PM response CHECKED. I bet that most pilots respond with CHECKED totaly automatically, unfortunately.
I am not saying that reading aloud FMA is not good or vice versa. There is no best practice. And I am sure that AIRBUS procedures makers are not the smartest guys in the world, as also BOEING or EMBRAER guys are not. Airbus just chose that philosophy.
And since Lufthansa switched to Airbus procedures, they put some of their guys into the Airbus' team for procedure design. As I ' ve been flying for years according Luftica rules, some modifications much closer to 'old' Luftica procedures are already visible. We will see what future brings.
But I can tell you that Luftica procedures were way more precise then the Airbus' procedures.
@FlightDetent
Regarding the change in procedures, some Lufthansa instructors told us that it has something to do with the insurance but probably somebody has some more accurate info