Exceedence has to be monitored
Interesting comment. "It was usually in the briefing just to maintain an awareness that an exceedance needed to be monitored to reduce thrust, if possible, after a safe altitude had been achieved". If the operations were being conducted to require thrust settings which, it seems, regularly resulted in exceeding EGT limits, with the attendant degradation of turbines, I am pleased I was not operating those aircraft. The only two turbine failures I encountered with the RB211-524 series happened following previously unreported engine over-temperature events which showed up when the DFDR data was downloaded.