Originally Posted by
172_driver
How's the A/THR in situations like this? Does it respond quick enough if you find yourself falling out of the sky, assuming no reactive WS warning? I am new to the A320 and surprised that there are not much focus on speed additives. Neither can you give a "straight arm" of boost to cushion the sink. Lots of trust (not thrust) is put in the GSmini and A/THR.
It’s not coupled to the WS system but no, it wouldn’t do much here. Point taken on straight arming the thrust but that just isn’t the way the Airbus is operated anywhere, let alone a shortish runway like this. Had a fair bit of experience of this runway in this type and tbh, this was a pretty nasty example of the aircraft just being sucked out of the air. To me it looks like they were
very slow in cottoning on, one does sometimes have to “catch” the aircraft in the situation it wants to fall out of the sky long before it lands itself and it does look like they belatedly tried to do that - but certainly this seems like this was on the sharper end of that kind of thing