Best take offs

Most interesting take off for me is always a C2 (lowest of the 3 available power options) A340-300 out of Jo’burg on a warm evening! That is probably the longest delay between V1 and rotate of any commercial flight in existence. Gives you loads of time to study the EGT guages climbing right up to their maximum!

If the nosewheel was raised, that would mean its passed the safest speed you can abort a takeoff, and that would mean you would have had to gone into the air.

You sure the nose went up?

Airline Ops Procedures are different, but technically this may not be correct under some circumstances, by this I mean that yes V1 will always be called before VR but V1 can be more than VR technically, this has to then be restricted to VR, so V1 can never be greater than VR, but you have a situation where you can stop if you aborted at rotate even though it is forbidden, this is why on some TV programs you hear the PNF call “V1………………………………rotate” or “V1…Rotate” generally this would happen on larger runways where V1 can be considerably higher than VR, another factor is VMCG, V1 must be greater than VMCG. V1 can also be restricted by Vmbe, V1 should not be higher than Vmbe or you will not stop in the event of an aborted t/o even if you are below V1

Not to sure actually about the nose going up, it was close to rotation though thats for sure !! Been thinking, the AF A343 was a VERY good take off at EWR last month, didnt get up for ages, then the immediate left-right departure pattern followed at a low altitude. Was cool!

What are 737 take offs like, ive been on 737s in past but cant remember the take offs much.

Here are some of my favourite planes for take offs.

1. 757
2. MD83
3. 767
4. A321
5. A300

Best – any 757 on a short flight/light weight combination.

Most ‘Interesting’ – 45 seconds (or more) take off roll in Tu154 of Balkan from Gatwick – when passing the fire station still firmly welded to the ground I did wonder if we were going by road.

No offence intended. Just a mispelling that’s very common and I hate to see perpetuated 🙂

None taken sir, just wanted to point out thats the reason i can’t get away with some mistakes hehe 🙂

English not my 1st language

No offence intended. Just a mispelling that’s very common and I hate to see perpetuated 🙂

Moggy

Or even ‘airborne’

English not my 1st language

Once you are passed V1, you have to get airbourne

Or even ‘airborne’

Extra 300 at Kemble last year is all my top five 😮 The others are just take-offs.

Moggy

I thought that once the nose wheel was up you were passed the point of no return??

Indeed, thats the whole point on V Speeds. Once you are passed V1, you have to get airbourne, if you like it or not

It aint civvy but what the heck, 2004 RAF brize norton Raf VC-10 the power the retroness!! Aint seen one on the deck since!!

They sure are fun watching taking off and what a brilliant noise aswel:)

James

Luckily i have never had an aborted take off, wouldnt mind an aborted landing tho 😀

I thought that once the nose wheel was up you were passed the point of no return??

For me it’s got to be on an MYT 752 from MAN-ALC. The flight was already delayed 3 hours due to tech. faults, so we taxiied out and spooled up, lifted the nose wheel and then slammed the nose back down and full reversers were deployed. Was very cool but scary 😀

If the nosewheel was raised, that would mean its passed the safest speed you can abort a takeoff, and that would mean you would have had to gone into the air.

You sure the nose went up?

For me it’s got to be on an MYT 752 from MAN-ALC. The flight was already delayed 3 hours due to tech. faults, so we taxiied out and spooled up, lifted the nose wheel and then slammed the nose back down and full reversers were deployed. Was very cool but scary 😀

an aborted take off then ?

All i was poiniting out was that people can’t tell from the back wether it was full thrust of not. I’m sure when i flew a A343 last year that they used quite a high setting, 98.7% was used on the Swiss DVD to BKK for instance, tho i wasnt pushed into the back of my seat, tho when i flew down to LHR last week, i did feel the acceleration, but Vr was reached in about 15 seconds, so de-rate would have been used.

Back to my Shamless DVD now :p

So your telling me that they would take the power to 107% N1?

Well that depends on the aircraft type, 107% N1 isn’t a standard full thrust figure! Full thrust varies with airfield elevation and temperature. And they utilise full thrust when they can’t de-rate for a specific reason, temperature, weight, runway length, clearance obstacles on the departure route etc. And also most airline crew use full thrust once a week to confirm that full (rated) thrust is achievable on a specific aircraft in the fleet.

I’m just saying that is massive generalisation that they NEVER use full thrust. It simply isn’t true. They use it (perhaps not often), but they do use it when required or for purposes explained above.

Flex

This isn’t true. They only will de-rate if they can performance wise, depends on the aircraft type too. Generally the crew uses full thrust once a week to confirm that full (rated) thrust is achievable on a specific aircraft in the fleet. There are a whole host of reasons why they use full thrust in specific conditions also.

So your telling me that they would take the power to 107% N1?

For me it’s got to be on an MYT 752 from MAN-ALC. The flight was already delayed 3 hours due to tech. faults, so we taxiied out and spooled up, lifted the nose wheel and then slammed the nose back down and full reversers were deployed. Was very cool but scary 😀

The topics are just getting better and better on here ! :rolleyes: