Sorry Emirates, you guys calculated the wrong speeds for the current aircraft weight by 100Kg. It should have been 363 instead of 263. Next mistake, you accepted to take off in Config 1. Why would you do this to yourselves? Standard flap setting should be Config 3 and please don't bother about telling me about performance limitation. Your rotation speed was 23kts too slow based on the current configuration. Mistakes happen and we learn from this. With that long winded process that you have for inserting the Perf Speeds you would think that the method is foolproof but it is not. After one pilot enters the data into the laptop, the second pilot should repeat the process.
Last edited by poison; 5th Apr 2009 at 18:00.