Originally Posted by Sillypeoples
First off, 30 seconds at reduced thrust on a departure so the mechanic can walk out there and keep signing off blades that 'don't look that bad' is the reason why you put thousands of feet of runway behind you and climb out over the bushes every day is hardly a sales point for 'safety first'...
Banging full thrust on the next takeoff (which is coincidentally ferry flight) just after the same engineer signed off the same blades "that don't look that bad" is much more likely to have an engine failure than by using appropriately reduced takeoff thrust.
You will not find companies in this world (and especially in this economy) operating large numbers of medium or large engines (let's say 20K+ thrust) doing continuously only full rated thrust takeoff and then replacing engines at the first small sign of problem.