Originally Posted by tdracer
Are you really advocating an A/T that can unilaterally apply thrust, even when the pilot has commanded it not to? What if there was an issue with unreliable airspeed (been known to happen), do you want the A/T to firewall the throttles against the pilots wishes to maintain the erroneous airspeed during landing? Boeing design philosophy says the pilot has the final say.
As an aside, I'm not a pilot,
- thus you are not familair with min speed reversion on the 737 which is an "an A/T that can unilaterally apply thrust, even when the pilot has commanded it not to?" Oh, and the A/T was not 'put' in HOLD - it put itself there.
All this anxiety about 'what to do with a rogue A/T" - turn the ***** off!
I'm still waiting for the logic in removing msr from this mode. I hear "the pilots need the choice" - well, they plainly are not up to it, are they?