Thanks Canadian, reminds me of why I'm not a fan of the AB.....
CP's a renown for the common sense of ferrets. They sit in the towers, looking at ASRs and f**kups and generally only think about restricting pilots from making mistakes or infact deviating in any way from the best practice they have evolved from flying once a month whether they need to or not.
Boeing or Airbus, Dash or Avro, it doesn't really matter what aircraft, the passengers want a smooth ride, comfort and suchlike, or they'll choose someone else.
ATC want us to climb when asked and not to trigger TCAS warnings all over the place.
Perhaps we should just manage our aircraft with common sense. Personally, SPEED and VS work well on every type I have flown. Smooth changes, sensible rates and no problems.
AB? Push the knobs in and let the plane fly as requested should work..the Autothrottle can't be that bad, can it?