744 FD bars: rotation and initial climb

You may be quite correct there Q. I would trust the maintenance manual over our flight manuals any day. Much more specific and technical.As I think I said in another post this is a highly integrated aircraft and there are numerous inputs to the FMC. The use of the term FMC may not necessarily imply exclusivity. For example are the FCC data outputs in series or parallel with the FMC. Do they have the ability to command directly in a normal situation or only as limiters? ie. Flap speed limiters.Interesting stuff all the same.CheersSteve