PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Boeing 737 VR speed question
View Single Post
Old 8th Oct 2018, 17:04
  #15 (permalink)  
sonicbum
 
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Having a margarita on the beach
Posts: 2,419
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Originally Posted by TangoAlphad
You could argue you hit that same fairly severe windsheer while airbourne, probably pretty low down at a lower airspeed.

You are past V1 in both examples so you are going to end up flying. In the increased Vr example yes you have less potential energy by being lower but in the early rotate you have less kinetic energy to play with now airbourne.
That sums it up.
sonicbum is offline