Dreamland - Yes, I am a pilot, thanks for asking. I'm obviously a very lucky one because even though I'm just an FO my company lets me start engines, taxi, take off, land, reject, brake, even do the walk round!
Javelin - Interesting. I'm familiar with Captains only calling Stop, and Captains handling thrust levers, but I read your post as you taking over full control when you call stop, which sounds a bit risky to me. If you were just referring to the fact that you call stop and close the levers whilst the FO brakes and (tries) to keep it straight then it's just my misunderstanding.
