Originally Posted by
admiral ackbar
Not excusing what they did but apparently those types of N1 values (under 90%) are not uncommon on cold winter days in Canada. Does not mitigate the fact that they should have slammed the throttles at some point but perhaps that is part of the reasons they missed it initially.
Apparently they did select TOGA thrust at some point but the logic disabled any effect if the selection.
They should have moved the throttles.
As an SLF I find it incomprehensible that a pilot who sees the runway threshold below him at an altitude < 1ft -that must be hard to miss even for a pilot used to automation- does not slam the throttles forward while *trying* to climb, and waits a minute or so to a distance of 4km. But of course my lack of understanding presumably stems from SLF stupidity. I am also amazed that the plane did not descend again when ground effect was lost.
Edmund