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Old 19th May 2006, 07:21
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SILENT_BADGER
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Might this not be more about ASDR? If you have a tailwind then for a given IAS you'll have more groundspeed and therefore be eating up your runway faster. So you have to make the V1 decision earlier and so live with lower speeds than you'd otherwise prefer.
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