YS....
Wig Wag 2,
I am amazed at how well 744 and 346 are getting airborne from S4/N4E, it just goes to show that full power take offs are very different from the de-rated departures they must do all the time.
The huge pi$$ take for me is why aren't the US carriers playing ball?? Every BA longhaul is taking 27L regardless of destination as they are adjusting cargo loading etc accordingly, but all the US 777 and a lot of AC767's are saying they need 27R, this is making the air positions very hard and unjustly delaying those that are playing the game nicely and accepting 27L from 4
BA can cope because we use a computer "performance" system... which is either already programmed for S/N4, or was very quickly. If the US carriers do not have the data on board, or via their company computers, they cannot go...
Whilst they get little or not delay in using 27R, and/or nobody has got onto UA/AA etc. and said you
need to provided S/N4 data or you will be delayed, I doubt anything will happen....
There are plenty of outstations we got to where the local airline uses intersections we do not have data for...
HTH?
NoD