Originally Posted by
Drofdeb
You'd be surprised how many captains want to shutdown #2 before APU start. When informed, they say "oh we've always done it this way". So, there's at least just as many FOs that aren't following the manuals.
Good for you, put someone down for following safe procedures, awesome, shows us what a professional you are.
It's really easy to make things happen "correctly". Capt disarms ground spoilers indicating that the race is on to flip as many switches as possible before he calls for the after landing checklist. While waving your hands around as fast as possible touching every single switch and button in sight and simultaneously checking in on ground, push in the APU switches real fast and then casually mention "and oh yea I got the APU up, if you want to shut down #2"
Another good distract is to "forget" to hack the clock after deselecting reverse thrust, and simultaneously hack the clock, verbalize "damn I forgot to hack the clock again", while reaching up real smoothly to turn on the APU. Works every time apparently.
Not that I've tried any of this or anything or would dream of pushing a button the CA told me not to push (of course, duh), but I've heard good things. All good things.