Now you both have me scratching my head .. just a little. How ought I interpret your joint use of the term "rate" ? ... and, surely, for an overspeed V2 schedule (improved performance or whatever term might be in vogue here and there), then the associated VR is still basically scheduled so that the aircraft, having had a failure at the scheduled V1, still hits the scheduled higher V2 around 35 feet ? To do otherwise would infer that the pitch rotation rate also has to be rescheduled ?
If we are going to use an overspeed schedule then the V2min schedule, naturally enough, has no particular significance for the particular takeoff.
If things are not as I imagine, please do improve my knowledge on these matters and lift the dreadful veil of confusion from my eyes ..
G'day, Mutt, good to see that you are still in the land of the living ..
[ 12 January 2002: Message edited by: john_tullamarine ]</p>