Originally Posted by
Clandestino
Originally Posted by DOVES
You loose the manual cotrol of throttles under 50 'R.A.
Not true. This is the one even I didn't hear of. Where did it come from?
Michel Asseline, possibly slightly misquoted, but I'm not going to look up what exactly his claim was.
Originally Posted by
Clandestino
Originally Posted by DOVES
The autothrottle is excluded by removing the Flight Director/s
Huh? What are we talking about F/D off or F/D fail?
This must refer to the Bangalore crash. PF wanted autothrust in speed mode, but left PNF's F/D enabled. PNF noticed the mistake and pointed it out, but neither pilot corrected it. PNF (check captain) probably wanted to teach PF a lesson, but underestimated the danger this put them into.
Some (again including Asseline) have criticised the "both F/Ds off" logic as non-intuitive.