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Originally Posted by
APCLurker 
Gotta agree with this.
Don't know where this build-up of the bogey man known as sopa/smac is coming from. Some are talking as if you would be failed for not doing things (switches) in the exact order listed at all times.
Urban legend indeed, and it seems to be coming from people that never participated in nw training or checkrides....
Originally Posted by
80ktsClamp
I fly with mostly pre merger nw captains, and 100% of them state the opposite of what you're trying to say here. You wouldn't be failed, but you would be debriefed.
I was the first "south" Captain after the merger to go fly the DC-9. What 80kts is saying is exactly what I experienced in training at MSP.