Originally Posted by
aterpster
president:
The latter is an impossible task for the flight crew with OEI. The OEI takeoff flight path "staircases" with a perhaps prolonged level segment. That, and a SIDs constant angle slope over the ground, are incompatible.
That depends where the engine fails. If you have an engine failure airborne on a normal SID with a 3.3 % requirement you might have the safe choice to stay on the SID and still comply with the required gradient.