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Old 15th August 2013 | 21:42
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MCDU2
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Striking a balance between safety and saving some fuel can be one reason for adjusting your acceleration heights. Some airports are extremely busy with rapid fire Atc instructions and frequency changes once airborne. Having someone heads down adjusting thrust levers, doing radios, changing frequencies, making fcu selections if the other pilot is hand flying all at 400ft above the deck is asking for trouble. That's what our flight ops department thinks anyway.
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