Originally Posted by SoaringTheSkies
oh, and yes, Han Solo, it's really that simple. But there are times, when the brain just doesn't work that way. Sadly. Are those who get caught in those situations worse pilots than those who post how easy it would be in this thread?
No, they are no worse. Probably much better. The question is whether the manufacturer is at fault for not designing out all posibilities that the brain can throw at it. In due course the accident investigators will determine why the crew on the day did what they did, but in the mean time we have the usual protagonists decrying Airbus design from positions of little or no experience, drawing comparisons which are neither apt nor valid and telling us how much more reliable the Boeing would be. Anyone who has flown the Airbus will tell you how outlandish the idea is that you would deliberately land with one thrust lever in the climb gate. The Boeing lynch mob are trying to claim that this is a subtle, insidious error that is easy to miss thanks to the non-moving thrust levers. It's not. It's as outlandish as landing a 737 with one thrust lever at idle and the other at TOGA, and the visual disparity between the levers is as easy to spot.