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Old 7th February 2002 | 04:46
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john_tullamarine
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Calypso,

Minor point overlooked in your post. Ignoring the wind component factoring built into the charts, we are considering limiting cases, or near so. With a 30 kt headwind, the runway required becomes somewhat shorter so the problem doesn't really go away that simply ....
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