Good question. In my opinion, its allowed to use your head a little bit, instead of acting like a robot. There is no need to be trigger happy, there is normally no rush.
Parked at stand, and with normal engine indication, we decided to stop the memory items at start level cutoff. Switching between loop A and B quickly showed us that only one loop was sensing heat. Doing this, we avoided firing the fire extinguishing agnet into the engine, and able to depart some hours later. With this said, in the air, or after applying power on the engine, we would have done all the fire items immediately. Referring to the QRH, checklist instruction ;
'The flight crew must be aware that checklists cannot be created for all conceivable situations and are not intended to replace good judgment. In some situations, at the captain's discretion, deviation from a checklist can be needed'.
Im sure there is a lot of different opinions on this, which is good. Im my opinion, stop, breathe and think for some secconds is a good thing before acting.
Last edited by k738; 28th May 2017 at 07:26.