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Old 13th Sep 2016, 19:58
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c.j.shrimpton
 
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"pilot needs to apply TOGA manually"

Sorry Vilas @1510, TOGA is an autothrottle mode not an action.

Manual power lever selection, firewall the throttles, punch the instrument panel, slam the lollipops forward - these are actions.

"TOGA + check thrust" is futile if the mode is inhibited as it will be if the aircraft is on the ground. SQ 327 at Munich demonstrated this. After several attempts to get TOGA selection to deliver the thrust he gave up and tried to stop on the runway.

Any SOP that calls for TOGA selection in this situation , as opposed to a command to apply full power manually, is dangerously misleading as the pilot might reasonably expect the power to be applied automatically and may be be distracted when it isn't.
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