Originally Posted by
tiddles52
lets not forget ET was going out of a hot and high airport at MTOW. Conditions not experienced much in the USA, so any talk of cut thrust, nose down and manage it are very US-centric. The "high" airports in the US don't tend to be hot!
I can think of at least 5 cities with 200K+ people with an elevation over 5000', that will have 35deg C+ temperature over the summer.