What about the emergency turns at certain airports like MCT, SHZ, THR.? Given the language problem from the latter two airports can you just imagine, after losing a donk, on take off, "calmly "!!!!!,telling atc, ( that is the requirement), that you will be turning this way or that to intercept some radial and stagger up to some altitude. Almost certainly you are going to get, "say again", and then possibly dead silence, as the beautiful day gets shattered, for both of you.Rome F, a case in point, where our E/turn can take you right across, another active runway. Bet that would open up a few eyeballs. Maybe that is why a lot of aircraft have brown seats. What colour in atc? It would appear, that every airline has it's own proceedures, based on the aircraft they operate, and the performance differences. Do the controllers know this?
Also can someone give a definition of "high speed", which we are often asked to maintain. Above approx FL 300 we are using Mach, not IAS. I have heard controllers asking for over 300kts descending thru FL 380. Not possible. Below about,FL 300, generally, but not always, we can descend at round about 300 kts IAS +,and increase as we get lower. Depending on type, turbulence speed ( my A/C ) is .78/290 kts, and 250 kts below 10000' AGL, but definately no faster than 250 kts below 5000' AGL, otherwise it's into the office. I am pretty sure most types of big jet have similar restrictions. Comments ?