Our Airlines SOPs have change to standard when PASSING through the TA.
Our Airline SOPs have change to QNH once CLEARED to an altitude.
I think the reason for this is that you are on the controllers QNH as long as possible while and as early as possible when descending.

 

You know...I never considered this option mixing both procedures and I kinda like it. Nice!

 

 

 

Seems ATC tries to avoid that as much as possible because they know it can cause false level offs with wrong altimeter settings.

 

Yeah, that and it's inconvenience to the crew in general, along with extra radio chatter, and the possibility that the extra instruction could cause confusion. This is somewhat mitigated by the extra "CALLSIGN, amend the last - climb and maintain XXXXX" but only so much - it's somewhat unexpected to get restrictive clearances.

 

 

 

I do have ASN, cannot find any wind suppression option to change. Shift Z shows the winds as active, but only when I take off does the ND show the winds.

 

I think with ASN the option is a max wind on the ground slider. If you're seeing wind via Shift Z, then that's not the case.

 

The wind will only show up above a minimum value (somewhere around 5 to 10 knots), and will only show up above a minimum aircraft speed (that value I don't know, actually). Can't find specific manual references for either. Are you sure the wind is above 10-15 and you're moving above the minimum threshold speed?

On takeoff wind was 14 knots headwind, it appeared on the nd only after taking off the ground

You know...I never considered this option mixing both procedures and I kinda like it. Nice!

 

Funny....and I had no idea before this thread that others were doing this differently than we :-)

 

After so many years of something you start to believe it is the norm.

 

If only thinking out of the box would be more easy than it is.....we would all come up with amazing ideas constantly.

At American we switch when approaching or at transition altitude/level. Going up it's easy enough to switch to STD. coming down we normally have the altimeter setting preset and then just press the button near transition level. I worked at Continental Express before and we did it the same way there.