I was hoping that someone could explain why our current procedure makes sense from a noise point of view. So far things seem to be going in the opposite direction.
I am interested that only one other current 737 pilot has contributed. Anybody know what Ryanair or even Southwest do (although I accept that is less likely on this forum).
While the noise footprint of a medium jet is a lot smaller than a heavy, there are a lot more of them taking off around 6 in the morning. If you pull more than idle reverse in Palma at that time you get treated like a criminal, but scream past Sant Jordi off the end of 06R possibly selecting 90% N1 at 1000 feet and nobody cares.