Originally Posted by Lonewolf_50
His training pilot with much more experience on type would certainly be aware of that feature, would he not? And being the training pilot, would he not be aware of how that systems feature had to be accounted for when operating on the line?
This is what we don't know yet. And I'm sure NTSB are asking the same questions.
What we DO know, based on the NTSB brief yesterday, is this:
From NTSB Brief 7/9/13:
"Instructor Pilot stated that [...] they had set speed at 137 knots and he assumed that the auto-throttles were maintaining speed.
[...]
At 200 feet [...] he recognized that the auto-throtles were not maintaining speed and he established a GO-AROUND Attitude."
So the more experienced trainer pilot assumed the auto-throttles were handling the speed. (!)