Trident A/T
It’s now nearly 30 years since I last flew the “Gripper”, but IIRC A/T was ONLY used for autoland. No 2 was kept mid posn (10,800 O&H mentioned, ‘fraid I can’t remember) for px, UNLESS 1 & 3 were at greater than Reverse Idle, when No 2 could be brought to Idle. (I recorded 22,000fpm during an emergency descent in that config.)
There was no pitch couple (for any engines). I transferred to the B757 after the Trident and that was when I first encountered this phenomenon.
Prober