Hudson,
The FLUF, as both you and I only too well know, can takeoff with any of a host of flap settings, provided that the numbers fit the particular runway and environs for the weight of the day and so on.
As to a particular company's policy, that all depends on the moods and preferences of management.
The advantage of a single flap policy is simplicity, the disadvantage a probable reduction in best RTOW for many of the runways (to a greater or lesser extent depending on the numbers).
(We continue to have a lovely time here ... weather is great and the beer and wine more than acceptable .... Barry and Bill send their regards as well. We might never come home ....)
CaptainSandL,
Hudson has a gazillion hours (or thereabouts) on the bird and has flown just about the lot of the them.
Nick,
Doesn't work that way, unfortunately. You would end up worse off and the bumpy bits would be closer than before ....
[ 14 August 2001: Message edited by: john_tullamarine ]