Originally Posted by
TonyWilliams
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Sully also mentioned in the first person that "he" started the APU, and he turned on the continuous ignition, in addition to what we would consider his normal tasks of flying the plane and ATC. Gotta wonder if the FO was shell shocked.
Maybe, who knows yet? The other possibility was that while the FO was executing some procedure that may have been slightly drawn out, CA Sully simply exercised his systems knowledge and experience because we wanted those things on RIGHT AWAY.