herbert23: The different rating may explain much of the Flex difference, otherwise it is down to specific OEI procedure and precision of the calculation tool (I used RWY17). Needless to say, we both are in agreement that it depends on company requirements (apologies as I was rather stubborn explaining the reasoning behind ours), irrelevant to the thread, and there be much more to learn from the report than US Airways pack policy.
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Here's the
theoreticalappropriate ditching abnormal C/L for 320-214:
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But even with 100% hindsight and time the flow is really overkill. ECAM first, stop as ditch is imminent. Locate Ditching in QRH, read the fine small print to find out it should not be used, go to ENG DUAL FAIL (fuel remaining). Work through or skip the restart attempts and on page 5
the procedure I copied. And of course, the vital "11 degrees pitch" is yet again - in small print.
FD (the un-real)