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Old 18th Jul 2009, 16:13
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Don't hear many folks that suffer from the "hurry-up-time-is-money" syndrom advocate that though .
Actually, it's not a syndrom, I'd say it's more like a culture that you learn when you are up in an airliner. Couple of examples that comes to my mind is doing rolling takeoffs; that stopping and further acceleration of the engines is worth a few pounds of fuel (specially in older jet engines). You accept or request any "direct-to" that suits your needs, you try your best not to enter a holding pattern unless it is that necessary, for whatever reason it is, and if you do enter the holding pattern, then you descend as much as you can within permissible limits to not waste a whole lotta time, time equals fuel, fuel equals money for your company.

I'll be more than happy to take-off with max thrust, max fuel and use full length, when the passengers are happy to pay the full cost in fares to cover the substantial increase in operating costs.
I second that!
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