Originally Posted by
The Dominican
Depends on the A/C, the information that Jungle posted is correct and you can see on the 767 up to 25% reduced thrust for T/O as a max reduction, the only thing you have to be a little careful with when you have a long aluminum tube behind you is not to venture beyond the 3 degrees/ second rate of rotation since the likelihood of a tail strike at reduced thrust is little higher.
There is also the controllability issue with wing mounted engines because as you apply the remaining thrust, you will have to apply a healthy amount of rudder to compensate, the procedure doesn't call to apply full thrust. It is just one of those handful of things that is a little different when you are flying the heavy Iron
Thanks. I was wondering if he was talking military transport or airline heavy. I had no idea that you guys didn't push the thrust up on the good engine....but to be honest never really thought about it. The wing mounted engine and needing more rudder makes sense, but we did it in the turboprop and sometimes it would get kinda sporty in the sim. In my opinion the 145 is underpowered (EP especially) and if we didn't throw to good engine up to full power we would probably fall out of the sky. I hope to be flying heavy iron soon, but with the way things are these days it looks like I'm going to get to live the dream one nightmare at a time for a little while longer here in the regional level. On a side note is your "heavy captain discresion" company still hiring expat guys?