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Old 16th Jan 2012, 14:20
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No. That's called passive acceptance.
I'm sorry, I think you must have misunderstood me somehow. Just to be 100% clear: You are trying to say that if an aircraft does the complete opposite of what you just commanded it to do and reduces thrust to idle when you require (and have commanded) full thrust, that is not 'working against you' in your book?

A more appropriate analogy would be:

You are in a car, pulling out of a T-junction. As you pull out you see a car approaching so you step fully on the accelerator pedal. But the car instead applies the brakes.

For the record, I think that the tens of millions of flight hours flown by both manufacturers have proved both Airbus and Boeing products to be remarkably safe and reliable types. I'm just a little gobsmacked at some of the double standards that the anti-bus brigade seem to display.
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