Thanks for the garbage tag, Han Solo. If you put the A320 in autothrust, you can put the T/L's in one of several detents, and listen to the engines and watch the guages as they vary their thrust depending on what is required of them, without the T/L's moving in sympathy. That is what post #1383 was all about. If you take the autothrust out and manually play with the throttles and they behave as "conventional" ones would, then bully for you. It was the operation in autothrust I was trying to comment on.