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Old 5th Sep 2007, 08:36
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EMIT
 
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Thrust levers

To STUDI.

People have repeatedly stated in this forum that B will not allow you to select reverse when *not all* thrust levers are at idle.

They have "proven" this with a quote from FCOM.

What those people have forgotten is, to quote from FCOM a few paragraphs earlier, where it says that *each engine has it's individual control on the flight deck* .
Now as far as I know, individual means - not in any way depending on the other one. Reading and understanding is a complicated activity!!

The thing is, finding out what is really meant in the books, would require playing around with those controls in a live aircraft. Now that is something that you don't do in practice, because, for instance you don't want a ground engineer to get wounded by your fiddling around during a ground stop.

Moreover, why would you ever want to know, if you just do as always, that is, pull alll thrust levers to idle when touching down?
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