Originally Posted by
C310driver
Stop trying to find problems where there are none. That thrust lever design has been used since the original 737.
Actually, the mechanical interlock requiring the throttle to be at idle before you can raise the reverse piggyback lever is a design feature on every Boeing Commercial airliner ever built - 707 to 787 all have the same feature (although the detailed implementation varies a bit).
The motion to deploy the reversers is to pull back and up - how much brain power does it take to make the 'pull back' part to insure the lever is at the idle stop?
As for the vilas contention that the 737NG is an inherently unsafe "compromised" aircraft - as of 2018 (the latest stats I can find on-line), the 737NG hull loss and fatal hull loss rates are marginally better than the A320 series - probably not enough to be statistically significant, but reading some of the drivel that gets posted here you'd think the 737NG was an order of magnitude
worse than the A320.