Originally Posted by turbojet28

I came from nearly a decade at F9 and am now Airbus at UA. I wouldn’t call the way United flies the AB unprofessional, but there certainly are some cultural things that seem “goofy” from my previous experience. Chief among them being the absolutely insane obsession about brake temperatures. Also, the weird aversion to using auto brakes an any landing, or the lack of trust in the auto thrust system. I admit that I enjoy flying manual thrust quite often for personal enjoyment, but many people I fly with never use it because they genuinely have some weird trust issues with it. I have never seen the Airbus autothrust perform poorly enough that I wouldn’t feel comfortable using it at any time.

Also have seen many pilots fly around for significant amounts of time in MCT thrust (which UA allows, but I thought Airbus did not?).