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Old 16th Jul 2010, 09:26
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welliewanger
 
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Holding on the brakes in a piston aircraft only saves a small ammount of runway (the time it takes for the prop to spin up is just a couple of seconds). If your TODR / TODA are so critical that this is an issue, maybe you should rethink the departure.

Using the brakes will save you some runway, and could (as has been pointed out above) give you extra time to check Ts&Ps etc.
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