Given the break thread I though bring up throttle, power lever, thrust lever and the obsession to someone to have those sticks in hand when they are a helper. On take off I usually go to the yolk after power setting and if an F/O is fine adjust thrust, do it then get your hands away from the levers and hand on quadrant "guarding" is at your own risk cuz I will hurt you if i reject. On the jets I have flown you don't want your hands on the thrust levers because not many runways are smooth and a bounce (140kt+ rotation) could actually cause you the retard, hovering over top is one method but time from yoke there is very little difference. The herc would be like a bucking bronco on some ice runways but then again the F/E was a great set of eyes and always monitoring engines.
Landing - on the levers until flare(except in a jet) if you are actually flaring two hand always worked better for me, likely because of all the aircraft with heavy control I've flown, the convairs were a slut. I have actually seen a throttle bent on a Cessna on floats. The twin Otter was one of the worst, I would always chase my helpers away and tell the to sit on their hands. Guys who would reach up and squeeze them together pinching you hand, lets say I would not so politely rip them a new ass hole. Damn that could hurt. So bottom line stay away from my levers unless briefed otherwise.
Damn us old fuckers have so many perceived bad habits
