Good to see some decent people about.
Real slim,
Thanks for that, i'm an engineer and your info makes logical sense and could well explain what was a very different experience to the 300+ take-off's i've sat through in 73's over the last couple of years.
I'm not a nervous passenger, just one with a question that had been nagging me.
As for rainbow, what can i say ? does he fly ? for a living ? if he does it's about time he looked for something else, he's lost the plot.
Seriously, he can't be a pilot, that attitude will get someone killed one day, if not in a plane then a car.