the word "damp" was introduced to confuse and frustrate people, as usually there are no corrections for it to be found. Previously a "damp" runway used to get treated as dry, more and more operators treat it as "wet". And PPrune is not an authoritative source of information, you need to deal with the ambiguity here, whatever you hear from your outfit (VN Airlines I asssume? or Jetstar or Vietjet?) should be taken more seriously. But a damp runway surely isn't dry, and while friction can be better than on a wet, it's not necessarily so. Also consider how much of the runway is damp. There's shades of gray. I can see how that question is important in a country with high humidity like VN. And wildly guessing, with some knowledge about conditions on some runways in VN - I'm making assumptions - I'll speculate your captain was not wrong, but making a decision based on a well informed guess, local knowledge, experience, FCOM and Mr A's input.
Last edited by deptrai; 1st May 2015 at 11:22.