Originally Posted by
Uplinker
If an Airbus FBW is airborne 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.
An important detail is missing here: the flap lever must not be in zero for this to work, otherwise you get full thrust and nothing changes to previous AFDS modes, see
Wizz A320 at Sofia on Jan 3rd 2016, inadvertently retracted flaps on final approach.
Originally Posted by
Uplinker
so the thrust lever quadrants and operation are all similar.
Except the reversers
