Diversion from SID
Hi all
I have a question directed to pilots about a divergence from a sid.
A business jet had to depart on a sid with a right turn at 2000 feet. A couple of minutes before a very slow IFR plane had departed on that same sid.
Of course the business jet would have caught up with the previous one quite fast. To be more expeditious and less fuel burn for the jet, what I did was to let him climb higher and make it a left turn towards the last point on the sid.
A colleague of mine said "you shouldn't do that, pilots don't like being taken of off their sids". I completely understand that, but I think they would hate it more that they would be leveling off beneath the other one for some time before continuing there climb.
I'm not a pilot myself but I think the instruction "turn left to XXX" is not so difficult and thus I want some opinions from pilots on this matter.