And you can't do a 'zero thrust' position, as it's only a single lever control on the fadec engine.
Would you not just set a percentage of power?
I wonder why they don't have a horn mute ability. A twin engine training aircraft is of course going to spend half its life doing assymetric simulations. The Dash 8 system is nice an simple, horn mutable with one power lever at or near flight idle, and flaps less than 15 degrees. Can't be that hard can it? Diamond spent enough time making the thing look ugly...