Originally Posted by
FlightDetent
That is an important angle. There was an action slip incident where upon getting airborne the PM retracted the flaps instead of raising the gear.
Airbuses more often than not depart with F=1, imagine the statistics if the call for retracting them had been Flaps UP as opposed to today's Flaps ZERO.
Won't crash neither happen anything dangerous.. Flaps zero at not the proper speed? No problem, the bus is in charge and won't do "much"