That to me once again clearly indicates that Airbus want you to use A/THR to control IAS and that Pitch changes will cause changes in ROD and thus slope.
All clear indications of how they want you to FLY THEIR AIRCRAFT.
Boeing is the same.
By the way......how do you guys fly a raw data manual thrust approach using the Bird?
Surely if you were nicely on slope and 3 deg path and you want to change speed from 160 to 140 you'd keep the pitch around the same to keep the bird sitting on 3 deg whilst at the same time reducing thrust to let the damn Aircraft slow down????
Surely that's the way you'd do it???
You wouldn't go pitching up first to slow down would you???? Because let's say you did pitch up first, that will immediately put you above the GS, then you'll have to reduce thrust to increase the ROD.....messy messy messy as you wallow around the slope!!
What you in effect do is what we've said all along, thrust comes back first then you adjust pitch a small amount to keep the GS.
EXACTLY WHAT THE DAMN AUTO PILOT AUTO THRUST COMBO DO DURING COUPLED APPROACHES.....
Last edited by nitpicker330; 27th Mar 2014 at 12:25.