Superpilot
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: UK
Posts: 1,232
Depending on the runway and performance dictated takeoff required, the extra "push" you feel might also be due to the brakes being held in with power at 50% (which is more typical than 70%!). Then as the brakes are released more power is applied giving you the impression the power is doing it all.
And the reason pilots do that ..i dont know...except increasing the chance of ingesting foreign objects..
