Originally Posted by
Adam West
You cannot safely take-off below Vmcg or Vmca with a failure of the critical engine. The crew can, though, retard the throttles and safely reject the takeoff, even if refusal speed is below Vmcg. If there is a gap between V1 and rotate and the takeoff is continued, and Vmcg is less than rotate, and Vmca is less than Vlo (liftoff speed), then you're in trouble
As for the test question, I was confused on the answer as well...something like a max 10 knots reduction. Not something I've ever seen or heard of before; we had a short discussion during the interview but I can't remember the company answer...just ask a lot of questions in the tech portion and the time will fly by.
Good Luck!
It was a while ago, but IIRC, the answer on the test was 10 knots. While trying to find the answer on the interwbz later on I stumbled across another mssg board where a pilot from an operator that flies both 74s and 76's (not Atlas) stated that his company uses a max reduction of 10kts on the 74 and 6kts on the 76. And of course, it can never be less than Vmcg+1kt.
I believe a pilot from another operator stated that they use more than 10kts sometimes, but of course, never less than Vmcg+1.