Manchester's always wet runway?
What is the reason that the runway at Manchester is promulgated as wet when it is obviously dry? This afternoon 23L was dry as a bone and promulgated as wet. Aprons all dry too. Had it even rained today? We calculated wet performance figures of course. All a bit silly and seems to have been the case for the 20 years I have been flying there. What justification for promulgating inaccurate information?
And while on the subject of Manchester why is it that because the odd aircraft years ago departed with the wrong SID plugged in that we get asked to confirm our SID just before take off? Are you aware nowhere else does this? [That I have flown to anyway - I have done quite a bit of flying]