Hands on the thrust levers is pointless on the Airbus. It has a lot more value on the aircraft with moving throttles like the Boeing's. Shades of the Korean 777 crash into SFO - exactly what scan was used that never noticed the N1's were at idle and below expected N1's for the approach? What scan was used looking at the speed trend arrow below VLS, then in the zipper, then just prior to achieving ALPHA FLOOR? Aimpoint, airspeed, power has been FLYING 101 forever. It shouldn't change because of autothrottles but the <sad> reality is it has.