Originally Posted by A33Zab
BEA states: 02:10:51 ....The thrust levers were positioned in the TO/GA detent and.....
In what postion was it in between? What is the expected cruise N1 with data just before the event at 2::10:04?
For 45 seconds, thrust could have been anywhere between idle and climb thrust. It all depends on what was trying to achieve the A/THR at the time of disconnect. Was it trying to reduce the speed, was it chasing the M 0.80, was it just set to the proper EPR to maintain the requested selected Mach ...
BEA knows ...
Additional thought : For close to 3 minutes, the Captain, a guy with experience, was in the flight deck ...
What were his comments ?
Any Directives ... !?
He didn't come back to just shut up ... did he ?
BEA ...