Originally Posted by
helmet fire
In the A109E I would argue it is a unique human factors issue that permits take off with one engine at idle and both roof mounted throttles at fully open. In other-words, the visual indication from flying other types is the roof mounted throttles - and these can be sit ironed full open in the fly position, however the engine switches are down on the console and can be at idle even when the throttle is mismatched at fully open with no warning light.
No doubt in my mind that this is a human factors issue straight from the human factor manual of what not to do in design
I'd suggest that this also is an issue with the rotor brake on/off for start, since Agusta
still don't have a simple code line in their software to inhibit start with the rotor brake on.
With both speed selects and the rotor brake all painted black, if the R/B is inadvertently left on and a quick glance at the overhead made it can easily be overlooked. Yes, I know there is a caption!