Which to me means someone might have screwed up and the company wanted to standardize the usage. I went through training in 2001 and that was the biggest part of the checkout: "Make sure you hit the tail!"

After the ride was over, the examiner pulled out a printout of our flight path to show me how many times we "hit it" and I thought he was going to say we got it too much. To my surprise, he said great job and that was pretty much the extent of the de-brief. As I said, they were big on anti-ice procedures back then.