ERJ-145 Housekeeping.
Regarding: how you leave the flight deck for the next pilot.
Level 1: you're actively screwing over the next pilot if you don't do these:
1) remove all garbage.
2) write up any existing maintenance issues and report to mx (including low oil, hydraulic fluid, or any broken headsets).
3) If it's summer time, put up the shades.
4) remove the headset cord, wrap it up, and put it away.
Level 2: you should be doing these, but most people don't:
1) If there is no ATIS card packet, leave one. Carry an extra one and leave one if your airplane runs out.
2) fold up and nearly put away the window shades, don't leave them under a window or partially posted up.
3) put up the window shades if it is even moderately warm out.
Level 3: this is actively helping the next pilot.
1) during the flight, get the station report as PM. On the blank atis card, write the next flight's number, and put the destination and departure time at the top. After doing the parking check, out in the next flight number in your clock and on the ATC/TCAS page.
2) leave a sanicomm for the next guy if there aren't any in the flight deck.
3) put pitch trim at 8, leave the initialization screen up on the ACARS.
Side notes:
1) why the ******* is the side tone knob turned up on most airplanes? There is zero reason to turn this up at all.
2) do not use the "waste bin" in the flight deck. Nobody cleans them out. You are screwing over other pilots by leaving trash in the flight deck.
3) anyone who disagrees with this: consider this as professionalism. Keep the flight deck a sacred space. Help your fellow pilots.