Originally Posted by Lookleft
Been a while for me but I do remember having to switch the F/D off on final when the A/P was disconnected. Pressing the TOGA button brought them back up.(Airbus you push for TOGA, Boeing you press)
Looked into it and it seems my memory was right, it does have TOGA FD pop up so the story related by Sheppey is even more ridiculous with the Captain obviously not know a basic AF function of his aircraft in accepting the p!ss weak excuse from the F/O.
Although we all have our learning curves, we weren't all born Aces of the Base. I distinctly remember my training on the 737, half way through the sectors, upon receiving track-shortening again, I went to disconnect and turn onto base, keen to show my trainer how well I'd learnt to fly the a/c. He told me to not do so and use the automatics "you need to be able to do everything with both".
Time and a place.