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Old 1st Dec 2020, 15:59
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Uplinker
 
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Apologies, vilas for my incorrect assumption.

However, All thrust levers have some friction, (otherwise they wouldn't stay where you put them!), and walking the thrust levers is a very useful technique for small adjustments - especially on Airbus FBW, where as has been noted, the lever travel and the levers are relatively short.


Like Vessbot, I use this technique to adjust taxi thrust and flying thrust if I want to make small changes, (and have done so on turbo-props and the BAe146 for example as well as Airbus). To adjust thrust from, say, 53% to 55% N1, I can easily over shoot if I do it 'freehand' , but if I walk the levers up I can get my target thrust very precisely.
Note: when I say walk, I am taking steps of a few millimetres at a time, no more.
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