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RAT 5
2. airport, for local reasons, is using one runway direction. The wind shifts and results in 8kts tail wind. You have performance for 10kts. What do you do? Use the duty runway or request the reciprocal with the incurring delay?
I do see 777's in Istanbul taking off southbound when runway 35L/R is the runway in use for takeoff. But perhaps all of them do not meet their performance requirements.