Originally Posted by
thetimesreader84
Does your company permit manual thrust landings?
I find that all Airbus (Airbii?) Have a tendancy to sometimes give you a wallop of thrust right when you dont want it approaching the flare if using the auto thrust. On the rest of the single aisle types it's not a big deal as the FBW magic takes care of most of it, but on the 321n you're in (effectively) Direct Law for landing. This gives you a pitch - power couple and can destabilise the approach in the last 100' or so.
Other than being alive to the possibility & keeping the engine instruments in your scan, I don't know a good way around it (my company won't allow manual thrust landings in normal operations).
what you say is strange airbus doesn't do anything of that kind unless the speed was too low. A321n flare mode only difference is the pitch down is not timed to -2° pitch in 8seconds. Everything else is same.