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Old 25th Oct 2001, 22:21
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Can't help but agree with Pat on this one. It happened to me once in Scatsta, we were at 18960 and had a 35kt crosswind. I elected to dump payload to get below 18410 so that I could go legally, cause a minor bit of irratation, but at least we were all safe in the event of a failure.

So, if you really think that you can lift of in to wind, start a very slow banana departure eventually ending up along the runway, before your CDT, then great, but if you suffer an engine failure before CDT, you then have to banana your reject to end up in to wind at a very slow run on speed, exceedingly heavy! In the words of our chief technical training captain, "if you are that good go ahead, I'm not!"

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