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Old 8th Nov 2000, 13:09
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AffirmBrest
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True; also as JF mentioned, tyre speed limut would play an increasing role with a tailwind, on TO as well as LDG.

Limits on an aircraft performance are often there just because they represent the extent to which the aircraft was test-flown during manufacture - usually to conform with authority minimums. Just because an aeroplane has a 10kt tailwind limit doesn't NECESSARILY mean it WOULDN'T T-O with a greater t/w, just that that is the extent to which it has been tested.

As I suggested before, why test it with a stronger t/w when 99 times out of 100 you could just use the other runway? Thus there is no reqt to demonstrate higher t/w T-Os.

For the record - I have no ambition to be a TP...I stay WELL within the limits

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