Hi Chris,
By the time I retired in 2001, however, the majority of line pilots, trainers and managers rarely disconnected the A/THR. Pity...
M Scott's paper "The Management of Flight Safety"
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourcei...Bmanual+thrust has an interesting observation: " In British Airways, for example, the flexibility to use manual thrust on the Airbus fleet has been banned, so that pilots are increasingly relegated to monitoring the automatics. Thus the ‘system’ has become increasingly poorly ‘engineered’ from a cognitive point of view."
I gather the reason was because there were far more "incidents" on the Airbus fleet than any other fleet with low speed during manual flight. Since all BA pilots have a similar ability (on average on all fleets) one is led to conclude that there is an ergonomic disadvantage with the Airbus TL set up, or the absence of "feel" due to flight path stability with auto trim.
Hi Denti,
Easiest way to get there is of course during a phase of flight where thrust is idle anyway, just pull those levers back and there you have it.
If you had conventional TL, you could simply disconnect and leave the TL where they were during any stage of flight.