Devils Advocate
Good point - When TCAS was first fitted to our 757's ( especially the E4's) it didn't take me too long to work out that blasting off on a MID departure took you straight under the OCK hold with excessive rates of climb. Soon as we were clean I'd hit V/S and thumb in 1000 fpm max and hence had a clean sheet with no RA's. Not so much of a prob on the '77 as initial rates are not quite so spectacular. Of course all this used to be called "Airmanship".....