Originally Posted by Altcrznav
I brought up company procedure because I had never heard of that Airbus recommendation before and with it being so recent, I was very surprised it was never covered in our training.
It was NOT recent. The oldest reference I can find is from 2004. What is recent is that Airbus no longer recommends the use of such procedure.
Originally Posted by tom775257
The biggest problem with phase advance was people carrying it out below 100' RA. They click forward, click back to climb, and suddenly full climb thrust is commanded as the autothrust has turned itself off.
Correct. Airbus have engineered a system and procedure that behave very differently depending of the altitude ... Confusion is probably one of the "drawbacks".