Hi, Mutt .. been up to my armpits in alligators at work over the past few weeks .. hence my lack of wading into the fray ..
Anyone who believes the AFM data without applying the odd grain of salt eventually will be surprised. The battle is between the pilot who wants to be conservative and the accountant who wants to be profitable .. a sensible compromise is somewhere in the middle and ought to vary from sortie to sortie according to the actual, real world conditions.