Originally Posted by
Bluedriver
Agree. Very bad idea to just grab any old flap setting. This will reduce departure delays to some degree by allowing us to drop the brake before we receive our numbers because of the time it takes to check and input the numbers, followed by the remaining checklist. Now we drop the brake and push, and do all that other time consuming stuff while moving an aircraft around critically busy airports with one pilots head down.
I do not support this change.
My opinion only.
I can input the numbers, check them, and complete the below the line in less than 60 seconds. So what are we saving really? Now I'm heads down leaving the CA as the only set of eyes on a congested ramp? Personally, I've never felt the "pressure" pre-push that's being described. We now have FAs pressing the emergency call - because that's how they're told to communicate because of the new chime procedure - to tell us it's hot in the back during the push.