but then again I flew the 727 where you never closed the thrust levers until you were finished with the wings).
Ah George, as always your posts make me smile. Do you recall the Ansett captain who insists on pulling the thrust levers back at 50 feet because "that's the way Boeing certified it"? A desperate search through the memory bank can't produce a name, but the FE's all called him Evil Kaneval ("takes off like a rocket but lands like a bag of s**t").