Originally Posted by
brianb
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.
I directly quoted you the current copy of the AAL manual that says so in black and white. DC-10 did the same thing (pull its own power to idle) regardless of if you were on A/P or hand flying. Seems pretty standard.