Autothrust & thrust lever positions
If A/T is operating and desired thrust is not achieved, how far do the thrust levers advance in an attempt to regain lost speed? It has been suggested that the engines did not respond to pilot action advancing of the thrust levers. It seems that the levers should already have been in an advanced position.
It is drawing a very long bow to think that the A/T was operating incorrectly AND that manually advancing the thrust levers was inneffective, as separate faults. If it was a single fault, would this point towards mechanical failure of the thrust levers? Logically this would tend to rule out fuel mishandling, fuel quality problems, fuel malfunction, engine failure etc.
Last edited by autoflight; 21st Jan 2008 at 07:38.