Originally Posted by
Aluminium shuffler
Strikes me as pretty damned stupid and arrogant, approved or not, passengers or not - a little bit of turbulence off a hangar or a bird down an engine and you have no height or time to correct a resulting flight path variation. Airliners are too big and have too little agility/responsiveness to be doing that sort of flypast. A few hundred feet is one thing, but a few tens of feet is another - it looks clever, but anyone with a small amount of wit knows how stupid it is. It's the same as boy racers in their hot hatches and on their bikes.
What if there was no turbulence from the hangar because the winds were light.
What if you had an engine failure at V1 at max weight. Better to be at 280 knots and light. Maybe the rest of us are foolish. How little guaranteed terrain clearance is there in a second segment climb.