Forgetting the squabble and back to request vs require..... I tend to 'require' things when the performance calculator won't let us use the duty runway. It appears the reason I 'require' a runway doest seem to matter at all?
Exactly. And no controller, certainly in ML tower will question you. I think 'require' is an Australian thing, so you might hear foreign crews requesting an off mode runway. In their case most of us would take that as a requirement too.