Originally Posted by tommoutrie
really? Whats your go-around height on an ILS then?
About the same as yours, for Cat I...
What I'm trying to suggest is you separate the act of getting airborne with the act of retracting the flaps. Think of it this way, by the sounds of the performance of your jet, you could probably get airborne and by the time you are airborne and have selected gear up, you could probably select flap 0 too.
So, you spend a good few years safely doing this. But you are now at the end of a veeerrrrryyy long week, end of an even longer day and an engine has just failed on you. Unfortunately your motor skills training says that when you select gear up, the flaps go too....
Its about, as I suggested above, error management.
And I'm not suggesting that it would be YOU making these mistakes, just that its possible...