So Woody,
Am I to understand that you cannot rotate a miss loaded 777 without a tailstrike?
Yes missloading could lead to a tailstike but who rotates the aircraft and to what attitude.
If after reaching the correct attitude using the prescribed technique the aircraft failed to lift off at the correct speed then the choice is to wait or to rotate further. This could cause a tailstrike somewhere beyond the normal rotate position on the runway or cause a bit of a mess beyond the end of tora.
If it was so grossly missloaded so as to completely rotate to scrape angle without enough elevator authority to prevent it then so be it ,the crew could do nothing, but that would take a massive loading error wouldn't it?
Last edited by FE Hoppy; 6th Aug 2004 at 14:48.