Admiral346;
"Line - swine"...LOL, and I most assuredly belong in that grand class - no test pilot talking here. Absolutely I get what you mean.
One item though...these charts aren't meant for line operations but are created as a baseline upon which factors emerging from abnormals are calculated. They represent the best the airplane can do and no I don't think I could slam an airplane on, not, at least, intentionally, as good as a test pilot who did it for a living. But, in contrast to previous manuals in my experience anyway, the information is there and not absent as it was from so many previous FCOMs and AOMs.
NigelOnDraft, yes, ok, and understand - thanks.