Smart throttle
 

A single throttle lever that controls both engines with reverse thrust and airbrake controls integrated into the lever.

This is what the Falcon 10X will have.

WHY?
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I foresee a problem complying with 25.903(b):With a single lever, how will you provide isolation for a failure or jam of that lever assembly?
It would also make intentional asymmetric thrust rather difficult (such as setting a malfunctioning engine at idle to provide electric and hydraulics, while actually flying the aircraft with the other)
As dixi notes, what problem are they trying to solve?

dixi188

The same could be said about living in a cave I suppose...

Or having someone in a control tower

tdracer

On the aircraft type I used to fly there was a "sync switch" that would make one of the thrust levers the controlling one and you could move the other anywhere and it makes no difference, same principle can be applied here.

Yea, but that's with two levers.
What we are talking about is:So there is nothing to separate...

WiFi reception will be bad in caverns without a router. That’s reason enough to not live in a cave.

tdracer

lol. I'm sure it will be thought through though, with reversion and abnormal procedures in place..

They've lost their minds again.

Private jet

Why would that be useful? Most of my time is on heavy twin jets, and I don’t know why I would want that setup?

Private jet

So, like the original implementation of MCAS :ugh:

Aside from falling afoul of the regulations - in addition to the 25.903(b), there is 25.901(c) - no single failure shall result in an unsafe condition (at best, it's going to require an "Equivalent Level of Safety" finding), I fail to see any advantages aside from a slight reduction in manufacturing costs. OTOH and can see numerous drawbacks.
What problem are they trying to correct?
We moved out of caves and into buildings because it was a better solution. I fail to see how going to a single thrust lever for a twin engine aircraft is in anyway a better solution.

What problem would this new setup solve?

Dassault have experience with the system through the same set up in the Rafale fighter. Details are elusive, other than this comment from a pilot report.

In a single seat fighter I suppose there’s some rationale for this gadget


In a civilian biz jet it’s just technology for its own sake

Check Airman

Kegworth is the first thing that comes to mind. We'll be at the pilot+dog cockpit team before you know it. Touch a flight control, that mutt will bite you HARD.

Further details on the implementation here. https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-n...-autothrottles

Wasn't that the accident where the wrong engine was shut down?

I believe they want to move to a PFD-HUD which makes the space in the panel for the former PFD usable for other things. Will be interesting to see if that works.

There are many occasions where differential thrust is useful/required, such as turning on the runway. How do you do that with only one lever?

tdracer

The single lever will be the primary method to control the thrust in normal operations, there are secondary controls which will enable individual controls in non normal situations, it will also feature the auto recovery to straight and level like the Avidyne DFC90 autopilot.