Originally Posted by fox niner
If you leave the autothrottle off in a 777, it is sort of "more demanding" to manually fly the airplane, because you have to compensate for the autotrim system in a way that you have never done on another a/c type before. It is "an annoying way of flying". It can be done though. But you have to be aware of the little details.
I have been flying Airbus for over a decade now and I have no experience in flying the 777.
When flying the A320 with A/P off and A/T off, there's no need to trim as the computers will prevent pitch change because of in/decreasing thrust (with A/T on or off). Are you telling me that on the T7 with A/T off, there's some strange function that has the pilot manually compensating/fighting against some special auto trim function? Please explain if that's the case, because that appears to be a very strange design feature! (NOT trying to start a Airbus-Boeing war, just being curious!)