Flew the Bus here at UAL for over 8 years (and looking forward to getting back to it!) and from my perspective it seems that we are pretty “liberal” on procedure vs technique. Obviously fly it per our FM and follow the SOPs, but technique is easy to do in many circumstances. Just brief the other guy/gal so they aren’t like WTF! So in summary, is the way we fly the Bus different from other companies? Sure. Is it unsafe? Absolutely not.