bsieker,
You seem to have a better understanding of the thrust control system's terms, I'd greatly appreciate it if you could read p148 of the incident report of the Taipei-Sungshan-Overrun (
http://www.asc.gov.tw/acd_files/189-c1contupload.pdf), and tell me what I understood wrong.
Goodness ! After reading the gooble dee gock of that report, I can now ubderstand your puzzlement as to the working of the thrust system. I also understand that there has been some cross-references between your posts and mine ( I couldn't understand some of the vaklues you quoted ).
I need to go back to each and every sentence of that text for it to make some sense.
I'll come back to you this evening.
Regards.