I have few questions related to scoring system.

 

- if the taxing is long (over 10 minutes), is it mandatory to announce a slow airport operations at the moment? Is that announcement good for long taxing or when you are waiting long for takeoff clearance?

 

- how the captain can do a safety briefing? I saw a WAV file of captain's safety breifeng, but FA always do safety briefings.

 

- I always announce landings circa 10 minutes before, at the start of vector approach. If I forget to announce landing, does that impact the scoring?

 

- also if my flight is 10-15 minutes late because of busy airspace or ATC, I must announce that or it will have an impact to final score?

 

- does the flight length affect scoring?

Some answers....

 

It is not mandatory to make any public announcements from the flight deck (the FAs will do what's necessary from their end automatically).  However, communicating with the passengers will tend to make them more favorably disposed towards the flight, which could later result in favorable comments and a better score if you do other things well.

 

The Captain does not do a safety briefing, but the First Officer might well need to on flights where there are no flight attendants but passengers.  This is most commonly seen when there are riders along on cargo flights.

 

You don't need to announce an upcoming landing to passengers, although they like it when you do.  But when you have flight attendants it's required that you signal them when to take their seats and buckle in prior to landing, by toggling the smoking (chime) switch, or by the several other backup methods we have for sending this signal.  You also need to alert them to take-off the same way.  It's one of the distractions of having a cabin crew to worry about.

 

When you are running late you should let the passengers know, and you must also inform dispatch by filing a revised ETE if you are sure you'll arrive past the planned ETA.  If you've been put in a holding pattern by ATC, or have had ground delays, you'll be granted a "free" (non-score-affecting) ETE revision to do this.  The PAX announcement won't directly affect your score, but the failure to file an ETE revision can severely impact it.  You never want to arrive "late" as defined by your company's expectation of when you'll arrive.

 

Flight length does not affect scoring.  The allowable "window" for what's considered late (or early) expands though for longer flights.

 

Hope those answers help.

 

Dutch

I had a blonde moment, I thought about FO announcements, and wrote Captain's.

 

Thank you for a detailed explanation Dutch, exactly what I needed.