Wingswinger
Contrary to popular belief, manual thrust is possible on the 'bus and its use isn't banned.
Even for take off? I thought as soon as you put the levers into the Flex/MCT or TOGA gates that auto-thrust automatically switches on. (Can you just press the MCP button and switch it straight off?)
I did know that you can line up your donuts and kick it out for approaches or better still disengage it when the thrust is idle. I only used the manual thrust comment for effect
SW