At the risk of starting a firestorm......... Airbus applied some lateral thinking in their design process and came up with a new way of arranging the thrust levers and quadrant, which allowed engagement of TOGA, (for example) by a simple and instinctive forward movement of the thrust levers, (into a detent).
They also made their cockpit layouts largely common across all models, so the thrust lever quadrants and operation are all similar.
If an Airbus FBW is configured for approach and on Auto-pilot; pushing the thrust levers forward to the TOGA detent will pitch the aircraft up to climb towards the missed-approach altitude set on the FCU, it will simultaneously spool the engines up to TOGA thrust, and it will stitch the approach navigation route and runway back into the flight plan after the missed approach navigation.
On the runway, pushing the thrust levers forward to the TOGA detent will spool the engines up to TOGA thrust and perform an aircraft position update in the FMGS, based on the departure runway in the flight plan.
(TOGA is rarely used on take-off of course, but the 'Flex / Max Continuous Thrust' detent does the same thing but obviously with reduced thrust).
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Last edited by Uplinker; 16th August 2025 at 16:19.
Reason: clarification