I am all for safety, I am just puzzled why one group of pilots manages to backtrack at a certain safe speed (never seen an incident) and the other group can only manage a third of that speed safely.
Even stranger is 2 British Airways (at least they like to think they are) 146s backtracking in trail, one nips off down the runway to vacate, expediting as they confirmed they would before being given clearance on, the other crew (also confirmed before entering that they could expedite) crawl along behind, and when asked again to expedite answers "we are expediting!!!!"
Maybe it is my fault, and I should request their maximum backtrack speed before clearing them on.
Pointer you always managed good speed - where you being unsafe?
