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by dorfsmay 2805 days ago
Too low a thrust?

I thought that on airliners pilots input runway length, altitude and wind strength and direction, and the computer optimized the thrust accordingly?

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Yes, the autothrottle commands the thrust as calculated for a Flex take-off. But it's only correct if the input parameters are correct. There was a Sunwing 737 which bent the runway lights at Belfast in 2017 because the pilots had entered the wrong temperature variable:

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/temperature-error...