Dilbert68
Unfortunately, most of them have to be told to put their phone away as we taxi out to the runway.
In my experience there are more CNs that check their phone on taxi. I will concede that some SOs check phones/play games on their iPad but this should no longer be possible.
All for delegating responsibility down but training needs to step up to allow this to happen. Does a 200hr ADL grad really know what he is looking for on a walk around? Apart from that I find in general CX does have a culture of shared input however as previously mentioned the CN is always the individual (can't say guy anymore) responsible.