Originally Posted by
SideStickMonkey
This is the most insane thing I learned coming to the airlines.
Control change at one of the highest risk moments is asinine.
If we need to abort, say abort and the FO slams the throttles back and deploys the reversers. It’s not difficult.
Okay. So I'm not a outlier. Doing a control change, especially when the airplane is virtually going to stop itself, seems overly complicated. You want the captain to make the abort decision? Sure. AT off, thrust idle, speed brakes up. All the FO has to do is keep airplane on the center line then add brakes as needed if they AB fail.