SOP Practices And Techniques 1.9.HL_Ex Virgin Oz 1.9.HL Ex

• 1. Document Summary
• 1.1. Why a Practices and Techniques document?
• 1.2. Is this a procedural document – do I have to follow it?
• 1.3. Checklist and Checklist Memory Items
• 2. General Observations
• Recall during Flows
• 2.2. ATC make mistakes
• Checking the next checklist
• Keep the Lower MFD Clear
• PF does the Rudder Trim
• 2.6. Glass Cockpit Scan
• 2.7. Two heads down – in general
• 2.8. Altimeter Subscale Setting
• 2.9. Altitude Selector 1000 vs Auto
• Supplementary Procedures
• 3. Auto Flight
• 3.1. Calling FMA
• 3.2. Don’t throw the aircraft at the Autopilot
• 3.3. What is A/T HOLD?
• 3.4. Heading Select THEN Select Heading
• 3.5. VNAV as a Tactical Mode
• 3.6. Keep pressing that Altitude Selector … NOT
• 3.7. Altitude Selector and Engine Out Drift Down Descents
• 3.8. C’mon Mav, time to do some of that Pilot …
• 3.9. Before you engage that mode …
• VS : (Not So) Very Special Mode
• 3.11. Flight Level Change and SPEEDBRAKE EXTENDED
• 4. Flight Management Computer
• 4.1. FMC Changes : “Confirm” … “Execute”
• 4.2. Two heads down – FMC
• 4.3. Hold Page when Holding
• 4.4. Navaids : To AutoTune or Not AutoTune …
• 4.5. FMC Default Pages
• Route Discontinuities are our Friend
• ALTN Page – DIVERT NOW
• The FMC is trying to tell you something – why aren’t you listening?
• 5. Non Normal
• 5.1. Checklists and Checklist Memory Items you’ve never seen
• 5.2. Fly The Plane
• 5.3. Slow down, enjoy the emergency
• 5.4. Confirming Memory Items/Checklist actions
• 5.5. How to guard a control
• 5.6. Mayday vs PAN
• 5.7. Oxygen Masks
• 5.8. Cabin Altitude Memory Items
• 5.9. NNM Checklists Complete ... EICAS Recall vs Review
• 5.10. Wake up the PM
• 5.11. Cancelling EICAS – Checklist still to complete
• 5.12. Recovering from TCAS RA (or most Manual Flight NNMs)
• 5.13. ECL checklist Title usage
• 5.14. Flaps for Go-Around
• 5.15. Communication after a NNM – who do you call?
• 5.16. Dual Engine Fail/Stall – who flies?
• 5.17. Flaps/Slat problems & Speed Reduction
• Flaps/Slat problems & Slower Deployment
• 5.19. Landing using Flaps 20 Yes/No
• 5.20. Setting a NNM Vref – reference the ECL Notes
• Slats Drive – Do We Extend the Flaps?
• 5.22. Memory Items Complete …
• 5.23. Fuel Jettison, Fuel To Remain – How Much?
• 5.24. Overriding NM Checklist Items.
• Rapid Descent and Task Protection
• 5.26. Dispatch with a NNM
• 5.27. Fire Engine – Use Your Own Clock
• 5.28. Cabin Altitude Checklist (Silently)
• Fuel Jettison & Fuel Imbalance
• Non Normals on the Ground
• 6.1. Keep the Big Picture
• 6.2. Confirmation is not required
• 6.3. To Stop or Not to Stop …
• 6.4. Who has the Radio?
• Passenger Evacuation & Paper QRH Usage
• If you’re going to Stop …
• 6.7. Passenger Evacuation & Clearing the Runway
• 6.8. Landing NNMs & Passenger Evacuation
• 6.9. Rejected Take Off – Give the CM1 a Chance
• 7. Engine Failure After Takeoff (EFATO)
• 7.1. Engine Failure After Takeoff (EFATO) – Pitch Attitude
• 7.2. Engine Out, High Weight, High Altitude, Turning
• 7.3. TO2 ... Engine Failure ... TOGA ... Vmc A/G?
• 7.4. AICC – Announce, Identify, Confirm, Commence
• 7.5. Fly The Aircraft – What does it mean?
• EFATO – Trimming
• In Flight Engine Start
• Thrust Lever Usage while Engine Out
• 7.9. Engine Out – When do we Accelerate?
• 7.10. Acceleration, Configuration and Memory Items
• 7.11. Engine Failure Handling – a Paradigm Shift
• 7.12. Engine Fire on Takeoff – Early Acceleration & Climb Thrust
• 7.13. Engine Failure Analysis
• Engine In flight Re-Starts – Damaged Engines
• 7.15. CLB/CON Thrust during EFATO Acceleration
• Engine Out Procedures – AIT
• 7.17. Engine Failure on Takeoff – Overview Diagram
• Pre-Flight
• 8.1. Pre-Flight Briefing – Management
• 8.2. Pre-Flight Briefing – Expediting
• 8.3. Aircraft Power Up
• 8.4. EICAS Recall during Pre-Flight
• 8.5. Pre-flight : Keep the EICAS Clear
• 8.6. Starting the APU – Start, Release to ON
• 8.7. TFC on the ND during pre-flight
• 8.8. Pre-Flight Checklist – Altimeters
• Seating – Eye Position
• 8.10. Defuelling
• 8.11. Revising the Standby Fuel Figure (NOT)
• OPT and Takeoff Performance – Lessons from the Industry
• 8.13. OPT Usage – A Practical Application
• 8.14. OPT Independent Cross Check – The Next Level
• 8.15. ACARS OPT Check – Get what you Need, not what you Wanted
• FMC Reserve Figure
• 8.17. ILS Tuning for Departure
• 8.18. Application of CDL Performance Limits
• Re-Clearance Flight Plans & Final ZFW
• Noise Abatement - FMC TAKEOFF REF P2/2
• FMC vs CFP Lat/Lon Waypoints and Positions
• 8.22. FMC Track/Distance Checking – Oceanic, Lat-Lon, Off Airway Waypoints
• 8.23. FMC Initialisation with ACARS Uplink
• 8.24. Use of OFP RAMP and LNDG fuel correction figures
• 8.25. Uplinked Winds
• Final ZFW – What do we do with that?
• Aircraft DOW & DOI
• 8.28. Load Sheet Arrives – OFP Dispatch Message page
• Cleared to disconnect external power Captain?
• Pre-Start Hydraulic Pressurisation
• 8.31. Dispatch with the DDG – what does “None” really mean?
• 9. Pushback, Engine Start
• 9.1. “Can I close the Door Captain?”
• 9.2. Pushback Sequence
• 9.3. “Cleared to Pressurise?”
• 9.4. Start during push back
• 9.5. Engine Number One or Left Engine
• 9.6. Fuel Control Switch to RUN During Start
• Starting engines quietly
• 9.8. Start Abnormalities and the Outside World
• 9.9. Clear to disconnect after Recall
• 9.10. Engine Anti-Ice ON after start
• Guarding Fuel Control Switches
• Anti-ice and the Before Taxi Checklist
• 10. Taxi
• 10.1. Takeoff Review – Read the Glass!
• 10.2. Weather Radar ON during Taxi
• 10.3. When to run the Before Takeoff Checklist
• Thrust Usage on the Ground
• 10.5. Carbon Brakes – Operating Differences
• 10.6. Returning to Stand
• 10.7. Taxi Technique – General Tips
• 11. Takeoff
• 11.1. HDG/TRK Select (and HOLD) for takeoff
• 11.2. FMC Climb Direct Feature on the ground
• 11.3. Main gear steering and Thrust Application
• 11.4. Takeoff – wait for 55%
• 11.5. “Takeoff” ... Then TOGA Switch
• Eighty knots, Check, Hold, Check
• 11.7. Increasing VR for Strong Crosswind Conditions / Windshear
• Flap Retraction & Extension
• Takeoff Rotation Rate
• VNAV Path after Take Off?
• 12. Climb, Cruise, Descent
• 12.1. Filling in a Flight Plan
• 12.2. EDTO Critical Fuel Check
• 12.3. EDTO Critical Fuel – Do We Need It?
• 12.4. Use of VS to change Level at Higher Altitudes
• Block Clearances
• Updating FMC Winds
• 12.7. EDTO Plotting Chart
• 12.8. Route Offset via Track/Heading Select – Not via LNAV
• 12.9. Step Climbs – OFP vs FMC (Optimum vs Recommended vs STEP)
• 12.10. Crew Handover Briefing
• 12.11. Totalizer vs Calculated Fuel
• 12.12. HF Radio Usage
• 12.13. VHF Radio/RTP Usage
• Big Font, Little Font – the VOR/DME Ident
• 12.15. Setting up for Approach – PF or PM?
• 12.16. Hand on the Speedbrake Lever
• 12.17. Stowing the Speedbrake near VMO/MMO
• 12.18. Monitor Descent Profile
• 12.19. No Published Transition Level
• 12.20. FLCH Descent at 240 Knots
• Setting Vref Early
• 12.22. Enroute CDL Performance Penalties
• 12.23. When do you do the Recall and Notes?
• Approach, Missed Approach and Landing
• VNAV Approach Validation
• 13.2. VNAV Approach – No Path Indicator
• Alternate MCP Altitude Setting Technique
• Setting DH/MDA for Cat IIIB No DH Approaches
• VNAV Approach – Early Descent
• VNAV Approach – Speed Jumps Up
• MDA or MDA+50?
• FLCH during NPA’s
• 13.9. Modifying an Existing Hold
• Extending the Centerline
• 13.11. VNAV ALT on Approach
• 13.12. “Are you ready for the approach?”
• 13.13. Parallel Runway Awareness
• 13.14. LNAV into Localiser Capture
• Localiser Approaches – FMC Selection
• Arming Approach Mode
• 13.17. Glideslope Intercept From Above
• Circling Minima
• 13.19. Circling approach positioning by triangles
• 13.20. ILS Approach to Circle
• 13.21. Autopilot and MDA
• 13.22. Flt Director OFF at Minima?
• 13.23. Unnecessary Actions during Circling Approaches
• 13.24. “Localizer” vs “Localizer Capture” (... and Glideslope ...)
• 13.25. Circling Approach : Descent from MDA using AP
• 13.26. Manoeuvring below Minima – Visually
• 13.27. Boeing Thrust Reference Setting Anomaly
• 13.28. CDU VNAV DESC Waypoint/Alt – FPA/Bearing/VS information
• 13.29. LVOPS – the Last 50 ft
• 13.30. Visual Approaches
• 13.31. Late Runway Change
• 13.32. ANP, RNP, Position and Position Accuracy
• 13.33. Navigational Performance Scales (NPS)
• 13.34. Missed Approach Acceleration
• 13.35. Rejected Landing Procedure
• 13.36. Missed Approach from Above MAA
• 13.37. Clean up, before trying again
• 13.38. Reverse thrust before landing
• 13.39. Reverse thrust after landing
• 14. After Landing
• 14.1. Autoland – Disconnect AP before A/Brake
• CM1 Speedbrake Lever Initiates After Landing Flow
• 14.3. Towed Onto Stand
• 14.4. Parking Brake & The Shutdown Checklist
• 14.5. OFP Completion Post Flight
• 15. Diversions
• 15.1. General
• 15.2. Extra Documentation
• 15.3. Parking – Nose In?
• 15.4. ADIRU & SATCOM
• 16. Document Change History