OK, Simultaneously was a bad choice of words. What I mean is doing a S/E taxi and then getting a runway change. I seem to get a different runway then what we plan on quite often. You still have to start the second engine and do the runway change items. The order is not important - the fact that you are very busy is.

Then again maybe my luck just sucks. I had two gate failures on my current 4 day trip. Twice we pulled up to park and the gate wouldn't work, once in DTW and the very next leg in SFO. ****! How often does a gate fail? Both times we had to wait for maintenance to come out to fix the gates.

My point is this (besides the fact that I should avoid casinos and not waste money on lottery tickets) - Some guys think S/E taxi creates an unnecessarily high workload for the FO. I think it is fine unless you get a runway change, which I guess does not often happen to many guys except me - carry on.

Scoop