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Old 15th Feb 2008, 07:39
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Depends on your definition of the "far end", doesn't it?

In any case, what none of us in our armchairs can know is at what point the aircraft passed V1.

Unless shown otherwise, I would assume that there was sufficient runway plus stopway in front of that aircraft at that point (V1) to bring it to a safe halt with 1 engine inop, instead of heaving it off the ground with them all working. In short, I assume that that it was all properly calculated by the crew or dispatcher.

In the 1980s, DC8 departures from Exeter used to be similarly exciting on 26, but 26 had, at that time, a TODA of 150% of the TORA.

At a risk of thread drift, the problem in these cases is whether or not the stopway really is up to the job. Some are not, if they go beyond the paved surface so as to engineer a longer TORA.
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