Nick,
Very well said...absolutely spot on! The book bangers overlook words like "suggested" or "recommended" . It must be because they find little comfort in having to conduct independent thought.
They cannot grasp the concept that the book deals with issues that are considered "normal" conditions. What is sacrosanct about a red line limit when you are riding an express elevator downwards near the ground in a micro-burst such as the Delta crew at Dallas encountered?
In the simulator I have watched more than one crew placidly sit by and fly into the ground because they refused to fly beyond the "normal" limitations...and during the critique later...they actually get hostile when it was suggested they had not done all that could have been done.Invariably the defence was that I was at max power and I would have over temped or over torqued the engines!
Never mind they crashed into the ground at 90 knots and 1000's of feet per minute rate of descent.
Yes Nick....for those poseurs who asked themselves who this Gann fellow is....maybe in the future they will expose themselves to the "Truth" and be the better for it. One cannot claim to be a pilot until he knows Gann!