Landing gear still down after takeoff?

[Human Factor]

Careful, Mr F.
In my company we try to avoid using the T-word. It often triggers a very dangerous response along the lines of:

"I remember when I was on Tridents, we used to descend at 20000ft/min and do Mach .92 to the Outer Marker and ....."




Out of interest, on the 777 it reduces the performance limited take-off weight to around 220 tonnes from the usual 270 ish.