Originally posted by CONF iture..At 1000 AGL when it was time to set the thrust levers to the CLB position, the N1 command did not follow the request and remained to the previous setting. Asseline had to retard the levers behind the CLB position, only then the N1 command was elaborated but not without delay.
You would have thought then, that Capt. Asseline would have made doubly sure that the engine thrust was following his TL position, by flying at alpha MAX earlier in the demonstration (say 500 ft agl) and descending towards the runway using a controlled amount of manual thrust. To do a flight idle fly pass and hope the engines spooled up when requested (with the knowledge of the known thrust problem on take off), does not seem to be prudent to me.