Originally Posted by CONF iture
Thrust levers not moving is ok, information is taken directly from the instruments.
Maybe OK for you, but "information taken directly from the instruments" is one of my biggest points of concern when flying the Bus.
Quite simply, the eyes can only take in so much at once. The Bus puts far too much emphasis on visual clues at the expense of tactile clues. I spent the better part of the last 25 years flying with moving throttles. I don't have to look at a screen to tell my approximate power setting with moving throttles; with the Bus, I have to consciously focus on the engine instruments. In my opinion and experience, that philosophy forces me to overload my visual receptors and under-uses everything else. At least the Airbus engineers gave us round dials for engine parameters, that helps a bit.