On Wednesday, July 10, 2013 9:13:56 AM UTC-5, wrote:
The news about the B777 accident at SFO is getting me confused. The news stories are constantly pointing to the Autothrottle not maintaining airspeed (and question if the 3 pilots in the cockpit were monitoring airspeed)but in all the aircraft I have flown airspeed is controlled primarily with pitch. Is there something fundamentally different about airspeed control in large jet aircraft? My experience is that pitch controls airspeed and power controls climb/descent, especially in the approach to landing situation.



Guy Acheson "DDS"

Portions of the pilots interview were posted and the right seat pilot said he assumed the auto throttles were on but they were not. He says he told the left seat low time pilot to increase speed and pitch but it was too late.