Originally Posted by
Capn Bloggs
You old codgers can rant and rave all you like. The concept that a perfectly serviceable autothrottle system would just stay asleep when the speed was 30 knots below Vref is ludicrous.
Is it? Really? The autothrottle system was dependent on the rad alt, so when the radalt failed, the autothrottle failed. The flight crew is
not dependent on the radalt. Changing the above statement slightly results in the following truism:
The concept that a flight crew would just stay asleep when the speed was 30 knots below Vref is ludicrous.