Originally Posted by
Riding the Goat
Remember the 3 most useless things in aviation
1. The runway behind you
2. Fuel in the bowser, and
3. Altitude above you!
Most "lightie" pilots would much prefer to abort a T/O on the runway rather then be forced to take off and conduct an assy circuit because they took an intersection departure. So the reason is they are using the safest method, even if it adds another 10 secs to mr "heavies" flight.
Need to open your ears on the OZ_JET news, RPT to Derby (2-3 flights a week). Its been covered in here already.
I get the impression they would still wanna back track even if the intersection departure was 11,000TDA