Originally Posted by EXWOK
Once you know how the rating selections work, enabling the throttles to be left fully forward throughout normal flight, you can draw a line to the Airbus FBW thrust lever arrangement - the detents equating to different ratings.
Mercifully no-one had thought of that when Concorde was being designed; I still think it's a diabolical system.
Originally Posted by M2Dude
Oh Amen to that. Although quite complex in its concept, at least 'our' system was logical and intuitive, with full pilot control throughout.
And how do we know they weren't designed by the very same people?
PBL