Originally Posted by
symbian simian
On the 73 at UA. Same thing, everyone pointing and reading the MCP. Did the bus at NK for a long time. ALWAYS READ THE FMA. MCP is what you tell her, FMA is what she heard.
Unfortunately unlike the bus we don't get the little chirp when the mode changes. I found that useful a few times going in to LAS about 8 yrs ago when brand yellow was having trouble with the nav database and arrivals wouldn't connect up with the approaches properly, so you'd get a vnav disconnect at some point during the arrival or approach. Chirp chirp WTF is it doing NOW? is way better than whoop whoop terrain terrain pull up pull up (also brand yellow into vegas about 8 yrs ago).