Short field T/O question

[bubbers44]

flaps 20, bleeds off, set max power and hold on works for the B757 in Tegucigalpa with a 10 knot tailwind and 6100 foot runway in the mountains. Sorry, just remembering the good old days. But it sure was fun.

 

[AC560]

flaps 20, bleeds off, set max power and hold on works for the B757 in Tegucigalpa with a 10 knot tailwind and 6100 foot runway in the mountains. Sorry, just remembering the good old days. But it sure was fun.

Curious about this from some other conversations. My understanding is you get a performance credit for taking off in this fashion and thus can carry more payload. But I always sort of understood the case to be that you would actually get more performance from a rolling start, but because you couldn't dispatch the numbers you did the hold and start for the credit to dispatch.

I can definitely be mistaken in all of this but sure would like somebody to educate me a bit on it.

 

[bubbers44]

We were not allowed to do a rolling start. It had to be a static runup at the end of the runway. To make this take off the highway behind us had to be closed so we didn't blow anyone over. Usually we were right at max take off weight and sometimes had to wait for the wind to decrease to a 10 knot tailwind to be legal because the terrain taking off to the south prohibited a normal weight take off. I loved that airport and is the only thing I really miss being retired. That 757 was the greatest plane I ever flew. It had performance.

 

[Say Again Over]

sometimes had to wait for the wind to decrease to a 10 knot tailwind to be legal

Ya sure ya did, good answer.

 

[bubbers44]

The only highway was behind our tail with the traffic stopped until we took off so the tower got our 10 knot tailwind most every time or we had to taxi off the runway. It was interesting to see what the windsock was doing half way down the runway to see what it really was though.