Originally Posted by
ghilis101
That is interesting, especially with the industry wide push to move most checklist items to be accomplished before the aircraft ever starts rolling (obviously starting the other engine or engines on the taxi is an exemption).
What drives the AA philosophy of the captain doing everything, there surely must be a reason behind it. We had the same thing at Skywest and I always thought that it was too high a workload for the captain. And if the pilot group agrees that this should be changed, where is the resistance coming from?
Quite simply, ancestral worship and nothing more. As mentioned above, AA is a big Captain's airline. That is mostly a great thing, but not when the CA is performing FO tasks while taxiing.
Resistance? Oh man do I have stories for ya. Getting stuff procedurally changed here is akin to the Titanic's iceberg-avoidance turn rate.
