Originally Posted by
The Banjo
Yes, until you take the hand pressure off the levers. Depending on the A/T mode the levers(thrust) may well retard back to a previous setting will it not?
The thrust lever position will still determine the what the engines do. Which is why it's trained (or at least used to be trained) to keep a hand on them in case a miss-configured autothrottle or malfunction attempts to move them from where the PF wants them to be.