Photo of the day 10th Feb

Originally posted by wysiwyg
The amazing thing about 757 performance is that the steep climb outs that everybody gawps at are most often conducted with only 75% of the available take off thrust! This means that there is still another 10 tonnes of thrust available! When we reposition the aircraft from one base to another empty we never use full take off power as the aircraft becomes almost uncontrollable (and I’m not joking).

WOW, I knew the 757 takes off with the least ammount of thrust than most airliners, but I didn’t know it was that much!

Tis them RR’s 😉 can’t beat em.

Originally posted by A330Crazy
Yep it is… Ex – G-CCMY

Ah… G-CCMY, I knew her well…

The amazing thing about 757 performance is that the steep climb outs that everybody gawps at are most often conducted with only 75% of the available take off thrust! This means that there is still another 10 tonnes of thrust available! When we reposition the aircraft from one base to another empty we never use full take off power as the aircraft becomes almost uncontrollable (and I’m not joking).

Originally posted by wysiwyg
My company SOP’s define a maximum pitch up of 20 degrees during take off and climb. We frequently hold this pitch angle and could quite happily go much higher.

Ah yes, this is where the 757 excells. Isn’t it the steepest climber of any commercial passenger plane?

I watch the 757s take off from EDI all the time, they’re always in the clouds and leveling out much much quicker and closer to the airport than any other aicraft.

My company SOP’s define a maximum pitch up of 20 degrees during take off and climb. We frequently hold this pitch angle and could quite happily go much higher.

Mark, who reads the text when your eye gets caught by a lovely pic like that?

Wys, you ever been steeper? 😀

Originally posted by andrewm
That Air2000 does look to be cilmbing awful steep!

There are 2 reasons for a steep climb out. Firstly not a huge amount of fuel is required to get back to the UK from Innsbruck so the aircraft is ‘relatively’ light. Secondly, with all that terrain and potential windshear it would be standard procedure to depart with full power (ie no derated take offs).

“while One-Two-GO’s 757-23A XU-123 takes off in hybrid Mytravel colors”

Sort of gives it away Andrew

😀

Yep it is… Ex – G-CCMY

That Air2000 does look to be cilmbing awful steep!

Is that one of the ex-MYT planes in the background in Bangkok?

Air 2000
Boeing 757-2Y0
Innsbruck – Kranebitten (INN / LOWI)
Austria, February 7, 2004
G-CPEP Takeoff from runway 08