Yes, everyone knows that when heavy, hot, short runway etc etc you will use a lot of runway.
Someone suggested this flight was to Bergerac. That would be about 1.30hr. It might have been a tanker sector. That would sue a total fuel load of 4.00hrs. That's about 10tonnes. However, landing wt limit would have restricted the RTOW to about 68tonnes. With 26K available and a choice of flaps that is nowhere near a runway limit takeoff; unless you make it one.
If Bergerac was there true destination.
I've read the report on the AC A320 from BFS that took out a light at the far end. Wrong temp entered in FMC and a ridiculously low N1% computed and accepted. No awareness and just dumb acceptance. What is scary is that the crew acknowledged that they thought acceleration was slow passing 120-130kts. The end must have looked very close and yet they did not increase thrust until 800'. Come on! It's too late then. They were 12% too low on thrust setting and no alarms. OK, but not to increase thrust on the roll is suicidal.
Last edited by RAT 5; 18th Oct 2017 at 18:03.