Narrative:

Upon arrival at the airplane; we found that this airplane had the new QRH. As neither the first officer nor I had ever actually seen this checklist; we asked that boarding be delayed so we could familiarize ourselves with this huge volume of new procedures. We found that this time was very well spent; as many procedures were a bit difficult to find. Among the procedures we had trouble finding were abnormal starts. It took us about 5 or 10 minutes to find that item. Immediately upon push; when starting our first engine; we had an abnormal start. Had we not reviewed the new checklist; the starter would probably have been damaged due to the delay finding the right checklist. We were both very happy that we had done the right thing in spite of pressure from the company to press on while disregarding our own discomfort with these untrained procedures. The fact that the company chose to institute massive changes to important emergency procedures without doing any real pilot training of these changes is very risky business. It makes a mockery of the company motto of 'safety first'; and proves that this motto is nothing but empty words. It is equally disturbing that the FAA has signed off on this lack of training. I should mention that we had asked the company to not call us or disturb us; since this would merely delay the flight further. The company still felt compelled to make a flight manager call us to push us. This is typical for the current company operation; where pilot pushing is a daily occurrence. I do believe pilot pushing is illegal. It is certainly immoral and short-sighted. I would also like to mention that I had given the company more than one week's notice that I felt very uncomfortable and unsafe flying around with these new checklists prior to receiving real training in using them. I had in fact traveled to my domicile to sit down with a line check airman to review and train these procedures. However; after arriving for this training; I was informed that I would lose pay for this as it was occurring on a day of reserve duty. Therefore; I elected to go back home and reinstate my reserve duty for the day. I informed the company that I would take the time to review the new procedures on my first encounter with the checklists in actual operation.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: B757 flight crew describes steps taken to insure adequate familiarity with new QRH procedures; including delayed boarding to study the new document.

Narrative: Upon arrival at the airplane; we found that this airplane had the new QRH. As neither the First Officer nor I had ever actually seen this checklist; we asked that boarding be delayed so we could familiarize ourselves with this huge volume of new procedures. We found that this time was very well spent; as many procedures were a bit difficult to find. Among the procedures we had trouble finding were abnormal starts. It took us about 5 or 10 minutes to find that item. Immediately upon push; when starting our first engine; we had an abnormal start. Had we not reviewed the new checklist; the starter would probably have been damaged due to the delay finding the right checklist. We were both very happy that we had done the right thing in spite of pressure from the company to press on while disregarding our own discomfort with these untrained procedures. The fact that the Company chose to institute massive changes to important emergency procedures without doing any real pilot training of these changes is very risky business. It makes a mockery of the company motto of 'safety first'; and proves that this motto is nothing but empty words. It is equally disturbing that the FAA has signed off on this lack of training. I should mention that we had asked the company to NOT call us or disturb us; since this would merely delay the flight further. The Company still felt compelled to make a Flight Manager call us to push us. This is typical for the current Company operation; where pilot pushing is a daily occurrence. I do believe pilot pushing is illegal. It is certainly immoral and short-sighted. I would also like to mention that I had given the Company more than one week's notice that I felt very uncomfortable and unsafe flying around with these new checklists prior to receiving real training in using them. I had in fact traveled to my domicile to sit down with a Line Check Airman to review and train these procedures. However; after arriving for this training; I was informed that I would lose pay for this as it was occurring on a day of reserve duty. Therefore; I elected to go back home and reinstate my reserve duty for the day. I informed the Company that I would take the time to review the new procedures on my first encounter with the checklists in actual operation.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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.