Step climbs through DTY.
I've recently noticed that whilst routing out of EGBB on DTY departures we'v been geting an awful lot of 1000ft step climbs. Any particular reason for this new trend (apart from it's really busy, crossing traffic from EGBB is a pain, military traffic etc etc.)? The reason I raise the question is that a 1000ft climb is about as much use as a chocolate teapot to us, and succeeds only in spinning the engines up to climb thrust for about 5 seconds before they drop back to idle, with the resultant pitching making all the pax sick! Is it feasible to just point towards POTON around FL120 then go straight up to 190 when we're clear of the other traffic? Or am I being far too simplistic.
(And before anyone asks I haven't been to LATCC, but only because I keep getting rostered on your famil days!)