Originally Posted by airbubba
Actually, I believe most carriers use an NADP 1 profile (the former ICAO A departure profile) in the UK and hold off cleaning up the flaps until 3000 AGL.
They shouldn't be... NADP 2 if you're going to use a noise abatement profile. But like I said - noise abatement is actually track-based so you need to fly the departure track very accurately.