Tony
I would be interested to know what Type you are flying?
Currently 777, before that the 747, mostly the -400...........European operator, over 15000 hours, mostly on the 744.
..I understand the assumptions that are made in order to produce the performance calculations, and the EFATO procedure you described, containing the level acceleration, rings bells of my EFATO training on the Classic 747 many years ago. My minor gripe with your OP was that Boeing's FCOM 1 for the likes of the 744 and the 777 describe a subtly different profile and demand a different procedure ( e.g. it's a climbing acceleration, there should be no need to make an MCP speed selection to increase the angle of climb ...), so I felt your seemingly blanket comment that:
It has been my experience that a lot of pilots are poorly trained in this procedure
was somewhat harsh.
That said I'm sure we're singing from the same hymn sheet in our thoughts about this incident
