Originally Posted by
BOAC
it is a lot worse when autotrim takes you out of 'acceptable' areas when flying manually as with Airbus...
Well, it's interesting you should say that. Let's not forget that when the A320 was launched, there was a very vocal group of pilots who were up in arms about letting the technology decide for them what was "acceptable" and what wasn't.
So for whatever reason, the A330/340 implementation of autotrim always defers to the pilot as to what is "acceptable" when the systems are in a non-normal configuration. Again - intentionally or not, the THS was *commanded* to that position by the pilot flying.
@Bpalmer - re: pitch/power/attitude - absolutely right, and the correct pitch/power settings were in that supplementary FCTM sheet that AF apparently didn't deign to pass on to the pilots.