Centaurus and John The Moderator:
A very advanced airliner had a very close call with the ground near Las Vegas not too long ago, at night!. Something to do with hand-flying and the TOGA detent required for full go-around power?
The pilot who is familiar said that he also had an interesting problem when hand-flying a go-around. Don't know whether the flight director was on or off.
Coming from other planes and about 15-25 years flying experience, many pilots find it very difficult to slam the throttles up to the firewall (to find the TOGA detent), unless training for stall or windshear recovery; this happens only once per year. But this is normal for a go-around/missed approach on many new aircraft, or only when hand-flying?
