Originally Posted by
blastoff
Yes. This was emphasized to me in training by an IP but you're not the first CA that I've encountered that didn't know this so you're not alone.
You may not get a chance to see it if you use your normal power pull. Autoland rounds out the flare earlier than most guys do hand flying--that's why it leaves the power in longer. They were making us do autoland checks in VMC at Airways...it was absolutely uncomfortable how early the thing starts the flare.
Checked the AFM and the only reference I could find regarding the CAT3 Approach and autothrust was " at 10 feet, reduce thrust to idle", I could not locate any section where it showed thrust "automatically" went to zero. After all, you want to have some N1 available in case of a go around. I get CAT3 go arounds all the time during a PC.