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Old 10th Dec 2021, 18:53
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Buster15
 
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Originally Posted by Timelord
Not to quibble, but for the record: The Tornado drill for an engine failure on take off after decision speed was:

Throttles (note the plural) …..Combat
Landing gear…………………..Up
External load…………………..Jettison if necessary

And once at a safe height and speed shut down the affected engine.

NB Never a pilot or an engineer, only a navigator.
Quite correct. I was of the assumption that take off was at Max reheat. So you are right about going into combat.
Being a navigator certainly trumps an engineer by a big margin.
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