Too many here do not know nowadays airline ops!
1. "time to V1" or alike: Airbus offers MFF as an integral part of the package. You can mix every type from A318 to A346, you derate/flex T/O power according to Wx and RWY (resulting in differing acceleration rates but similar weights), you even can flex a derated T/O, you fly maybe only 6-8 legs per month with approx. 1-2 legs as PF, and then somebody really expects the pilots flying to feel the correct acceleration or s.th.? Get real!
2. "sterile cockpit on ground": There's the rub! 40 minutes to prepare the a/c for the flight w/ 10 minutes before the SLF arrives, incl. outside check, tec log, booting the EFB and setting it to mode 2 and connecting and calibrating it, finding out why the wind data just won't load in the FMC, catching the bugs in the data bases (EFB/OFP/FMC), finding the difference between routing MUCCCU6 in the FMC and the routing MUCCCU6 in the OFP (or: hey, why is BGTL planned as an ETOPS alternate on Saturday), searching for the waypoint xyz13 from your flight plan to find that it has been renamed to zyx31 (on the 31st NOTAMs page) so you can find it in the FMC, now ordering missing meals from catering, a lavatory needs to be cleaned again, the flight control center wants to know why you stopped boarding so you have to call back (or have to decide not to) and explain that boarding while fueling with only one airstair is illegal (glad you caught that), now try to order a 2nd airstair, but the number is occupied (again), while you are listening in on the de-ice freq to catch the righ moment for your request (or reckon the right moment to ask for your airway clearance etc. etc.) - I give up. Does anybody who knows airline ops really wonder why pilots might miss s.th.? Really?
