A320 captain reported the aircraft logbook appeared to indicate a previous flight crew had operated ...

Narrative:

While flight planning crew noticed a sign off about the water service door being cycled by the crew. At 5'10' this reporter could not reach said door and with just under 4% of the population is reported over 6'3'; (guesstimate of size required to reach) one must assume the pilots could not reach the door without some assistance. This is forbidden under fom (flight operations manual) guidance pilot accomplished tasks. Just want to ensure [operations management] is not requesting actions of pilots that are forbidden.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A320 Captain reported the aircraft logbook appeared to indicate a previous flight crew had operated the water service door which is prohibited by the Flight Operations Manual.

Narrative: While flight planning crew noticed a sign off about the water service door being cycled by the crew. At 5'10' this reporter could not reach said door and with just under 4% of the population is reported over 6'3'; (guesstimate of size required to reach) one must assume the pilots could not reach the door without some assistance. This is forbidden under FOM (Flight Operations Manual) guidance Pilot Accomplished Tasks. Just want to ensure [Operations Management] is not requesting actions of pilots that are forbidden.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1580864
Time
Date	201809
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	A320
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Other Preflight planning
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument
Experience	Flight Crew Total 10054
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

A320 captain reported the aircraft logbook appeared to indicate a previous flight crew had operated the water service door which is prohibited by the flight operations manual.