quote:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
If they had pushed the thrust levers forward instead of waiting for the aircraft to add thrust, nothing would've happened.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Now let me describe what would have happened on a 777. If they were doing a low fly-by below 100ft letting the speed come back to the stall. They firstly would have got warnings of the low airspeed situation. If they continued to let the speed bleed off the autothrust would 'wake-up' and try to regain the airspeed. Now lets take the worst case scenario where the autothrust system was switched off at any stage if they had pushed the thrust levers forward manually they would have got increased thrust. All completely intuitive.
I believe that statement about Airbus is being misinterpreted - what it means, if I may be excused from putting words into another's quote, is...
If they had pushed the thrust levers forward instead of waiting for the aircraft to add thrust, nothing
bad would've happened.
(because they would have got the increased thrust)