Checkers,
Regarding the risks of setting rated/reference thrust in the BAe 146 folowing a failure, it may be useful to add that procedurally the increase in thrust came after the gear was up because that was about the earliest point that the PF's hand was returned after the deliberate removal at V1. The manufacturer recommended increasing the thrust to improve the performance margin, particularly in the second segment.
From memory, now rapidly failing, there was also a 6 degree "pad" included in the flex thrust figures, purely for the reasons set out by the Towers. It was removed around 96 I think.
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