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Old 4th Dec 2018, 15:57
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I would venture a guess, that the reason behind that is that contaminated runways are less predictable than dry/wet runways.

They can have non-uniform contaminant depth and/or friction coefficient.

Therefore on a contaminated runway you want to accelerate/decelerate ASAP and have an extra margin, rather than use the entire available runway, which would be the case using FLEX method...

P.S. As for why derated thrust is allowed. I think de-rated thrust is pretty much like putting a smaller engine on the airplane, so it’s like you are using TOGA with a smaller engine - kind of a rule twisting, but still...

Also, a fixed de-rate in most cases will not result in using entire runway, whereas using FLEX/ATM you decrease thrust till you hit ASDA

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