Originally Posted by
ExSp33db1rd
and presumably the pilot who crashed through being low and slow approaching SFO on a manually flown approach ? It was reported that although hand flying he had engaged the auto throttle, but in fact he,or it, hadn't actually engaged, so being fresh off the Airbus and new to the B.777 he presumably wasn't concerned that the throttles weren't moving ? There were other factors of course, but I bet that was one of the "holes" in the cheese ?
Apologies for the thread drift, but I think the NTSB and FAA largely missed this contributing aspect of a recent transfer from an Airbus to a Boeing. SOP for doing an A/T landing in a Boeing is to keep one hand resting lightly on the throttles as a tactile indication of what the throttles (and hence the engines) are doing. It's painfully obvious that the Asiana pilot hadn't been taught that.
One of the recommendations should have been
greatly enhanced training when switching between Airbus and Boeing (or visa-versa) to emphasize the basic differences in how they work.