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Old 2nd Jul 2011, 10:33
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Like Checks inferred above, when the runway's contaminated all
reduced thrust bets are off and therefore its balls to the wall.

The 747 had the option of DERATING the engines which reduced
Vmcg so lowering your V1, and so not having to incur a higher TO
(read payload) penalty.
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