Originally Posted by
Capn Bloggs
The concept of thinking about what thrust to use is very suspect when it comes to windshear. If you've identified it as windshear, give it all you've got and ask questions later. Have you never been shown a marginally survivable windshear in the sim?
The debate is about "would raising the gear be beneficial on the 737 as it reduces drag". Which is indirectly a debate about how much excess thrust is available.
No one is thinking about using anything but TOGA. He just said that it is plenty even with gear drag.
In this case he suspected windshear before the plane annunciated it and had already firewalled the throttles.
So how is he thinking about not using TOGA?