Folks,
Some relevant reading:
http://www.casa.gov.au/manuals/regul...m/011r0614.pdf
http://www.casa.gov.au/manuals/regul...m/011r0718.pdf
http://www.casa.gov.au/manuals/regul...cm/form144.pdf
http://www.casa.gov.au/manuals/regul...cm/form860.pdf
I have quoted these because the Australian contributors are talking about life under CAO 20.7.1B which, unlike most international standards, demands full accountability essentially from chock to chock. The take-off splay does not truncate but continues to expand (to cater for dinosaur aeroplanes in real wind) until the aircraft reaches MSA/LSA. As this is OEI, many of the considerations that eventually result in the RTOW may be far from obvious to the crew and hence they are actively discouraged from deviating from
the one true path- ie the flight path that has been analysed as producing max payload!!
For those of you out there who are not legally required to be provided with the sort of data to which we are referring - best of luck. Dare I suggest that those of you who are mesmerised several times a day by the awesome AEO performance of your machines need to get a grip on how different life is when you are hot, heavy and OEI. You may well spend your whole life never having to face the reality of an engine failure - I do hope so - but don't be caught short because you didn't understand.