Intersection takeoffs
How is it going to look at the inquiry? Captain so-and-so you elected to depart from intersection “whatever” leaving 2,000 feet behind you, given your less than 100% successful abort why did you do that? Personally I operate out of enough skinny and remote 6,000’ runways surrounded with rough terrain that I don’t like to pass up available pavement, that way I am “managing the risk” by managing my exposure. Something else to consider is how accurate are our weights-really? The various departments fulfill their functions and provide the input that eventually gets uploaded to the FMC to give us our performance. Are those weights 100% accurate 100% of the time-not a chance! Are we within 2% - I don’t really know. 5% - I sure hope so. At home we have a 12,000’ runway that ATC likes to depart from an intersection during daylight that provides 8,000’+. It’s subjective but if I have less than 100 passengers and am below 80% MGTW I will accept this intersection, otherwise I’ll ask the FO to “tell him I want full length”.