Airbus... Why "Autothrust" and not "Autothrottles"

[sevenstrokeroll]

FIRST OFF...the only great airliner maker , DOUGLAS, calls them THROTTLES.

SECOND OFF, at best, whatever airbus calls them, they are really only ENGINE ROOM TELEGRAPHS

or perhaps engine rheostats?

And it is interesting about how humans glean their info. I found out about five years after I'd been flying one particular type, that the SIMulator had a volume control for engine sound. It was always turned DOWN so you couldn't hear the engines in the sim.

Turning it up made me hear the engines going out of synch on an engine cut even before I saw it on the panel.

Ergo, we still get INFO from many sources, not just our eyes.


remember when planes warned you of a stall when the flying wires sang: nearer my God to thee?

and we shouldn't say MINIMA...we should say Decision Height on an ILS.