Originally Posted by Oakape
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- exactly my experience and I believe it has come from trainers and Captains who have got a bit excited about the Boeing wording:
"After touchdown, with the thrust levers at idle, rapidly raise the reverse thrust levers up and aft to the interlock position"
and interpret this as the need to 'panic' the reversers into action as the wheels touch. I had one F/O so trained whose fingers crept along the levers during the flare and actually popped the reversers in the air - but had no idea he had done so! I recall a previous Boeing manual which said something like 'without delay....'