Originally Posted by aa73

You are barking up the wrong tree. APA safety commitee is as good as they come, and they ALWAYS suggest we slow down so as to accomplish all those tasks in a SAFE manner.

It's not about comm switches on the audio panels, or talking when you're driving. It's about dealing with a massive before T/O checklist that is not very evenly split amongst the two crewmembers. And as long as it's like that, we will taxi slower than most in order to not screw it up. AA pilots have ALWAYS taxied slower than most due to this phenomenon.

APA is always on top of stuff like this. Like I said, if you get stuck behind us, we will gladly stop and give way. But don't jump on here trying to "optimize" our way of doing things. That's just the AA way, and frankly, we have plenty of ASAPs that show a pretty high runway incursion rate a few years ago when some guys tried doing too much too quickly.

Safety comes first. If it means a slower taxi, so be it.