Originally Posted by
maui
Uplinker.
Is that referring to the comment in the earlier FairyTale?
If so, perhaps it would be useful for you to delve into the meaning of the expression FAIRY TALE.
Maui
We seem to have touched a nerve ! but no need to be quite so aggressive.
As I have said, I am not B777 type rated, (I am Airbus FBW rated). I flew B737 Classics for a season, and have flown a B777 SIM for half an hour. So I don't know how it works, and my comment about HOLD you have quoted is not my knowledge but refers to the fourth point down on the poster I saw in that B777 SIM briefing room - shown in post #12.
I don't know who wrote and published that poster, but they obviously had good reason to do so to remind their fleet pilots about certain B777 auto-thrust modes and traps. It was only just over a year ago that I saw that poster fixed to the wall - and it also refers to the B787, so I assumed it was still current advice.
I might be recalling it wrongly, but reading the report of the B777 crash at KSFO - caused by truly abysmal piloting by
both PF and PM, (despite the jump-seat F/O trying to warn about the decaying speed) :- was, as I understood it, not helped by the auto-thrust remaining in HOLD and not doing anything to stop the speed decay ?
I will refresh my memory of that crash and also read all your subsequent posts about how the B777 auto-thrust works, when I get a chance.