Boofhead,
(a) all's well ... just thought that I must have missed something along the way
(b) people need to be aware that the current rules address AEO reject ... and it would be reasonable to presume that this is applied to new TCs ...... however most of the aircraft out there were certificated to earlier standards which DID NOT ..
(c) my point precisely .. the real world boundary conditions are, in general, quite different ... and usually unconservative, with respect to the certification presumptions. The book figures are fine if the conditions and techniques are replicated ... in the real world situation this usually is not the case ... so we need to be a little circumspect about rejects from near V1 speeds from an ASD-limiting runway ....