RAPA Pilot
Absolutely Geffen, but tell me, what is 'the standard' ?
The standard is that if no Vortex separation is required then no vortex separation will be provided (unless considered necessary by the pilot or controller). As a Medium you are the same category as the Medium that rotated ahead of you and the controller can legitimately give you take-off as soon as there is daylight under the wheels of the leading aircraft if there are no IFR separation criteria to comply with. In the UK you magically become a Light vortex wake category and the ATR that could depart immediately behind you in Germany must now wait 2 minutes.
Please
always tell the tower if you believe that you will require more Vortex spacing than they need to give you (presumably when you are flying outside UK)
before you enter the runway. With experience you will get to know when to do this. Tower should also know that the request could be forthcoming because you are another one of those Englisch.
Interestingly, there is no longer any Wake Vortex. They think it simplifies everything if they call it Wake turbulence now.
