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Old 14th Aug 2007, 02:52
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bubbers44
 
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bomarc brings up a very good point. Thrust levers from the time we learned to fly control the thrust of the engines and at idle can be used to reverse the thrust by pulling the reverser levers back. They were never considered stop levers.

Then we build airplanes with technology that only let you get GS and auto brakes if you have the throttles in idle first. Also if you miss one TL and leave it above idle with no throttle movement you go to a high fwd thrust trying to land with one TR inop. Your only clue is the sound of the engine spooling up before touchdown but no throttle movement. The computer may have gotten wrong data about the TLA and done this even in the unlikely possiblity the TL was at idle but it didn't sense it. I have never flown an aircraft with this type of logic so do not understand the loyalty so many posters here have to giving this kind of control to a computer and accepting what ever it gives you as better than what a pilot could do if allowed to override the logic.
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