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Old 15th May 2010, 19:16
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HundredPercentPlease
 
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Sortie 3, you are correct. When hand flown if you apply TOGA then the aircraft just keeps going in the same direction. There is (almost) no pitch/power couple.

However, BOAC said:

Originally Posted by BOAC
Once the tail separated (presumably survivor seated here and ejected?) the pitch of full power would rapidly raise the nose,
J-E is correct - when the levers are moved all the way forward then the flight directors go up (in SRS mode) IF you have some flap out (worth remembering if you try to do a coupled go-around when clean).
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