Hi Airpolice
You asked --
Can you reference the section of the report that comes from?
Yes. 2.2.1.2 Page 163 I'll let you find it yourself because it's a very wordy paragraph and it'll clutter this thread.
Hi H Peacock -- You said:
A 14kt tailwind is most certainly not trivial, certainly not in a Hunter on a hot day! Thankfully the tailwind component on the day was somewhat less, but still significant. As to the comment about 'the a/c wants to unstick when it does', that wouldn't have worked on the 20 military types I've flown.
I'm not going to argue with you
Given that the pilot decided to do that, and given that he's suffering from retrograde amnesia so cannot tell us, why would a 14,000 hour pilot have taken off downwind? For myself I can remember every time I took off d/w and why, even decades later. No doubt every pilot could?