Originally Posted by
oceancrosser
10 minutes MINIMUM? What on earth are you doing? I’d say 2-3…
Depends on the aircraft and the methods of obtaining performance data and inputting it. On mine you can look at alternatives and print out a stack of different runways/departures to be used later if things change on the taxi out, but it puts another hole in the cheese at a time of high workload and distraction. Some types with fixed + ATM have ETs for almost every airport, which would also need re-briefing or affirmation. It’s perfectly doable but the point of the FAA spending $100m is to reduce the likelihood of runway accidents, so knowing the runway in advance on the gate would be a easy win in this respect.