'Engines' from whence came this quote:
"The USMC requirements for F-35 were quite specific - 1200 foot (now 1500) asphalt strip with no, repeat, no support. F-35 launches from ship, lands, shuts down, waits for the CAS call. Starts up, does the mission, returns to the ship."
'NITRO104' probably some kind of matrix of sorties to sortie length with specifics about mission, where start / finish is located and on and on may well have short sortie durations with plenty of STOVL mode use. As pointed out by others it is guess work and not some specific rule. OK?