.....as I was diverging, noticed the thing was developing an annoying nose down tendency and discovered I was 15 knots below Vref F30. The thrust levers were at idle from a previous exercise and it happened in seconds. And I supposedly knew I was in manual thrust! Silly me.
When you know how to listen to your aircraft, it will talk to you, but you have to be ready to listen and to ask questions such as, "Why am I holding so much aft pressure? or Why aren't the throttles moving?
It takes exposure to manually handling the aircraft to get this ability to sense when things are not right but it is one of the life saving skills that old timers developed that prevented many accidents.
Too bad the guy flying the Asiana had not developed the 'touch'. To my mind, a pilot who doesn't know how to sense and react to the cues is a cripple.