Originally Posted by
EXDAC
When would it be acceptable to fly runway TRACK if given a clearance to fly runway Heading? With parallel runway departures and a stiff cross wind the upwind aircraft flying runway heading may drift into conflict with the downwind aircraft flying runway track.
If you are asking in my case in particular, it was a single runway airport in the middle of nowhere.
And you have a very valid point: In airports where parallel departures are taking place, as it happens at some places and sometimes in the US, needless to say I fly a heading.