Does not utilising the offset Type-A chart for RWY 35 (353 degrees) provide an OCTG of around 3.4%? Please note, I'm not privy to the Cobham SOPs, but can they not employ such methods to calculate departure, or is the 717 performance worse than that... From memory (and it's scratchy), the use of the offset Type-A chart permitted departures on RWY 35 ahead of RWY 17 due to the reduced gradient and the lower MSA to the north (4600' vs 5100'/7500' to the south).
Interested to know if I'm a) wrong or b)how they are specifically restricted by a 35 departure.
Thanks.
Joe Lighty
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