Originally Posted by a37
The ideal runway analyses chart would publish safe flight path information until the aircraft reached a safe altitude from which it could conduct an instrument approach to return to the departure airport or continue en-route. This may have to include tracking to various fixes all of which would have been surveyed as part of the OEI flight path. Of course once the pilot has reached the published safe altitude the next course of action is up to him.
- just to amplify (my bold), somewhere, buried in EUOPS this is a 'requirement' for airfield performance but is ignored by many operators. My last always 'left' crews at 1500.(clean) - with no info on what to do next or what lay ahead in which direction.