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Old 10th Aug 2016, 01:11
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Judd
 
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Only if he actually had his hand on the thrust levers. I see too many pilots think they need two hands on the control wheel.
The two hands on the wheel at rotation so beloved of Boeing pilots, goes back in history where it was purely started by some operators as a symbolic movement to indicate V1 had been attained and to avoid the temptation of a startled pilot to abort after V1 while his hand was still on the throttles.

Symbolism has no place in the cockpit but nowadays if the PF does a one hand rotation (happens all the time with an Airbus side stick of course), in a Boeing all hell breaks lose in the simulator with most checkies. One excuse given by pilots who have spent their entire airline career using two-handed rotations, is that a one handed rotation tends to pull down the wheel and thus cause an unwanted turn. Even if that happened momentarily it is easily corrected.

The current tendency for the PF to press TOGA in a GA and rely on the autothrottles to do their thing, without keeping his hand on the thrust levers to ensure required thrust is set, needs to be reviewed - especially if it is found to be a factor in the Emirates go-around crash. After all, it is nothing more than basic airmanship. There have been at least two accidents in the distant past that I recall, (one a 737 and the other an A310?)where an autothrottle clutch motor was defective and only one throttle went forward for the commanded high thrust level. In both cases the crew failed to take instant corrective action and the aircraft rolled and went in.
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