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Old 20th May 2008, 22:04
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PA: So what your saying is that the aerodynamic benefit to flex is picking your own limiting temp? Next!
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Denti, if you and I bought our first old trashed 737 and tried to make a go of a single jet airline, our own money on the line..do or die..sure save a buck anywhere we can but be legal about it...no problem...now flash forward, billions of dollars later, hundreds of new planes on the line, we have something to lose, ..why push the safety envelope at that point....greed?
I am curious what is the WE have to pay for engines, unless you own the airline, your an employee, and management is not on yourside. You know besides mismanagement, a plane crash is pretty much the only single event that can literaly take down an airline and a company..why risk it...

Besides cutting corners on maintanance, I can't see a more dangerous policy at an airline then to tell all the crews to burn up more runway, to cut it closer to the fence...that just asks for trouble.

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