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Old 28th Oct 2004, 02:45
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RatherBeFlying
 
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Put time to V1 in the performance tables

Yes, I know that it will cost a forest full of trees to republish takeoff performance tables, but the computational task is straightforward.

Having the PNF monitoring the stopwatch up to V1 as well as airspeed and engine parameters can catch all of these nasty conditions during takeoff while there's still time to stop the beast on the remaining runway.

The stopwatch has to be monitored during non-precision approaches; so, it looks like time to begin doing it on takeoffs as well.

And yes, the glass cockpit jobs can integrate time to V1 into the FMC and flight display.
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