Agree with nitpicker, if your not flying to stabilized criteria and coming in high, the crew may not realize that a RadAlt failure has commanded idle thrust, this is what it normally does at 25'ra, the crew may then arrest there descent but with no thrust it could cause this situation, just like Turkish in AMS. If the pilots are too reliant on spd mode from the a/t they may not even pick up the problem. Having spend equal time on airbus and 777's I always thought airbus's way of making the pilot reduce thrust the safer option, albeit they could have picked a better word than "retard"
Last edited by flyingkiwi; 6th Jul 2013 at 23:54.