B737C525 and
Piltdown Man, from the NASA report I linked earlier.
We observed several examples of specific techniques that crewmembers used to enhance their performance, for example:
Deliberateness.
One first officer had a nice technique of carefully pointing to the overhead panel items that he was calling out during the After Start checklist. This focused both pilots’ attention on the checklist items and the specific switch settings/indications on the panel. After departure on another flight, a first officer set up the flight management system’s climb page and then paused before executing to let the captain verify the change. The captain focused on the first officer’s control display input (CDU) screen with apparent deliberateness to verify the change.
The crew then performed this cross verification for every CDU input requiring execution for the remainder of the flight. On yet another flight, a captain wanted to initiate flowing the cockpit panels in the pre-departure phase, and he asked the first officer, “Are you watching me?” as a way of prompting the first officer to verify items being checked.