Hi Grace
From the aborted/never finished flights I've done, I think that the best our friendly VFE does is stop the CoG warning coming on. I must point out that this comment is made without having any more than scant regard for the manual

There is obviously more to this than meets the eye and less to our VFE than explained as all of my flights have ended with the aircraft bleeding off speed and from the outside, loads of wing clouds indicating an out of envelope situation (as if I didn't know that) :brick: With the VFE off, you'll see a constant reminder of wrong doing with the red warning lamp and associated sound. Mr VFE must have a master warning cancel button and that's what he does!
Anyway.. hat's off to you for making a landing. This is something that I've yet to experience with this particular model ;-) Maybe I should forget transatlantic ops and join you on the daily LHR to Filton run
I suppose I'll have to actually read the b1oody manual at some point (worst case scenario) unless of course, Bob comes up with an idiots guide in the meantime featuring the least switches possible in order to get from A to B
ATB
DaveB :tab: