Smokey and barit1,
Thanks for the helpful replies. Amazingly, I had actually worked out the rest of the word (FLEXible) for myself
. (Maybe it's because I learned English somewhere in the eastern Atlantic Ocean...)
The question was prompted because I'd been thinking, "If they call this
flexible rather than
reduced thrust, maybe there's something fancy going on with the autothrottle/autothrust during the acceleration for take off."
Sometimes the truth is actually simpler than we imagine. Important to remember when being drawn in by a conspiracy theory...
It helped...
Shamrock