Capt Bloggs,
Reading the Jetstar report, is it true then that to both select TOGA and have the FMS cycle to GA, the pilot HAS to select full TOGA power? There are no separate TOGA buttons, just the throttle being positioned in TOGA?
In any case, in the EK event, an AB pilot would have had to do exactly what the T7 did NOT do--correctly position the throttles!
My experience with A/T was in BBD business jets, mostly Global. I thought it was fairly intuitive--buttons on the side of the levers were TOGA and were disarmed on touchdown. For take-off, the pilot had to advance the throttles to about the 2/3rds forward position to have the automatics take over. Fortunately, the C-5 had the exact same button arrangement.