Capn Laptop - Hear! Hear!
I couldn't agree with you more.
The perf dept must consider a range of speeds (different fleets), obstacles (determine a corridor width), state the bank angles(15deg/20deg depending on the height and position), etc, etc,. This is important to creating a 'Standard' for the 'Company' (helps cross fleet training safety).
What we must do is to spread this knowledge to all pilots. The last thing one needs is to get into the cockpit and have to explain it all, during the preflight briefing, to a colleague who doesn't 'know it'. So get the company's performance department and the fleets rattled to issue the 'knowhow and the procedures' to fly the departure on an engine failure (doesn't matter how many engined aircraft it is - it should be a standard for the company).
Speaking to ATC in the middle east, all they want to hear, if you are NOT flying their departure instructions, is a 'MAYDAY' or a 'PAN PAN PAN'. It will put them on their toes and they follow a checklist. Here the traffic is not too bad most of the time, except at dusk. Wonder what the European(LHR,CDG,FRA,etc,)/American (Chicago, DFW, LAX etc) ATCs .....think...or...do!
Chimbu Chuckles? Wonder what they think/do in the Far East?.... and Africa?
I wonder if the checklist for ATC is the same the world over, or do they, too, have different opinions as this thread (well we are now enlightened)?
We need to spread this subject with all pilots/concerned personnel, in our companies. We might fly with them one day, OR we might fly with them one day...(in the back!!!
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