Originally Posted by
retired guy
Thanks. That’s true. The manuals should of course be accurate. That said the majority of pilots I have known wouldn’t have derived any benefit from that knowledge in the AMS situation.
It might have been beneficial for them to know that the recognizably-faulty data from the left radio altimeter was actually feeding the autothrottle logic. As it was, they knew the reading from that RA was bogus, but they thought it didn't matter.