Originally Posted by
Capt Ecureuil
The -400 was always operated the "BEA" way, eventually the Classic fleet fell in to line and had to operate the same SOP's.
So now there is back to Boeing :-) ... well all except the monitored approach and reversers.
I
thought in the early days of the 744 (I moved to it from the Classic in 91) we were on something akin to Boeing Sops ( we certainly flew our own coupled or visuals to land, the "monitored approach" was used for non-precision stuff) but the head shed decided that was a bad thing and it morphed into the BEA way by, I am guessing, the mid nineties.... If I am wrong I stand corrected..and anyway all this is a bit of a tangent given the context of the thread, but nevertheless an example of how BA works, or not.