Might want to check that order. I was taught the “Skoh-wee” mnemonic, as in S.C.O.E.

Lol, they’re actually not in that order. You must be late flying around everywhere at cost index 0. :D

That's funny right there.

What’s special about Dec 31st?

Company gets a special break that day to put all the DH pilots in center seats for free.

You might inform us how lCAL enforced this.

Here’s another spin on this SOP; the 737 goes to smaller stations with less qualified staff. To either shutdown or start the APU requires special cockpit training which adds some issues, the biggest is cost and right behind that is security.

It’s cheaper (as in manpower) to give all the airplane shut down duties to a pilot rather than train someone locally to do it.

That was never ever enforced at LCAL, we were ALWAYS told to put passenger comfort ahead. They had a big push to reduce APU usage as we leased the APU per hour, every minute was around .99c cost. It was clearly stated over and over to reduce usage when practical but always always always put pass comfort ahead. Some guys, and a real minority could not get that in their heads and would shut it down. I recently deadheaded to Panama City and the Captain left us all roasting, the whole crew shares the van so he had to wait for us on the other side anyway, surprise he was a SCAB, I think that's the root of it, those guys don't consider anyone but themselves in any aspect of their lives. But CAL management never in any way encouraged that or would say a word to a pilot for APU usage.

Good point, my thought on that is if I'm making over 300k a year I can hang out for an extra 15 minutes to give the people that pay my check a good experience (unless of course I have a tight commute :)). I know some on here will disagree and bolt as soon as the engine is shut down, but if you want to get paid top dollar, act like you deserve it....

Terminate guppy, cockpit go dark with battery off, cabin on GS BUS. Walk off airplane.

Why’s this hard?

You don't have to do the GS bus button on the F/A panel anymore. Was a holdover from the non-NG aircraft.

As a PS, I never terminate an aircraft at a maintenance station.