Autothrust Blue
"Well, on the Brasilia..."
...How is setting pattern altitude any safer than spinning it to zero?
FLCH + 0 in the window gives you a suboptimal result...assuming, of course, you can't be bothered to fly the airplane.Because it's the next usable altitude if you have to go-around vmc. Especially at smaller uncontrolled airports. Even if the tower gives you some thing different you don't have as far to go. Zero is never an altitude that'll be used. You might as well use all available tools. Which is what we do, set VFR pattern alt in vmc or missed approach alt in ifr conditions.