Originally Posted by
H Peacock
When would you ever want a V1 which is 'artificially' lower than the highest V1 that you could safely use? In effect it commits you to 'go' when you could actually comfortably stop. When is that ever going to be advantageous?
Who says you can "comfortably" stop from V1?
Some companies consider the risks of a limiting V1 stop to be higher than the risks of carrying a failure in to the air (I have not seen the stats to support this so make no comment on the validity), therefore they use the lowest V1 available.