I've kinda scanned through 4 pages here.
If taxi time differences are negligible ( and I were PIC) I would always go for the longer runway.
Why?
All the unforeseen stuff that the performance doctors didn't think about.
The day all the holes in the cheese line up.
Finding out the airplane won't fly at Vr is not a good thing.
Cockpit transcript released from jet crash that killed Lewis Katz, 6 others - philly-archives
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_S...arjet_60_crash
The above are all examples of things that "shouldn't happen" but they did.
Trim is not supposed to freeze either..had that happen...in a CJ2
Longer is better..if in doubt..ask y'er wife..
