Originally Posted by
hans brinker
I am utterly lost how you would ever think it is acceptable to take an airplane airborne with a known failure just because it happened after you released the parking brake, but before you got to the runway.
Spot on Hans Brinker - that is exactly the reason why I started this tread.........
In my opinion the MEL should be applied up until setting takeoff power if you have failures on startup/taxi, and when airborne you look into the Abnormal checklist. That is the way we used to do it.
Let me give an example why : on taxi out you have an ECAM warning, and this failure is a “NO DISPATCH” according to the MEL. Common sense would be not to continue the flight, but as it is company (EASA reg) procedure in many places, it is up to captain to decide if it is OK to continue (after using “good airmanship etc”.
In todays complex aircraft it should not be up to the captain to decide that. The MEL should be used/applied up to setting takeoff power