Originally Posted by
Timbo
My favorite part is when the tower will hold a 'heavy' (everything from a 757 up to A380) to launch several RJ's, then finally launch the heavy...then when you talk to departure, they tell the heavy to slow to 280 (or less) in the climb, because you are following...all the RJ's the tower guy put in front of you!
Why can't ATL ATC just specify that ALL Departures MUST maintain 320 in the climb?
OR...put the slower ones at the back of the launch parade, instead of the front? Maybe with all these new SID's they will have more places to send the low and slow trafic.
This, and the antiquated 250 below 10,000 needs to go bye bye. At JFK, if we could turn right off of 31L/R, and accelerate to 320 at 2K, they would be able to get more traffic out and we could all get to the layover a little faster. But I guess we would be flying over somebody's house so that ain't gonna happen.
Oh and to answer the OP.. Sometimes it depends on where you are going. If I am going to JFK in the summer, and I am going to be 30 minutes early, I'll pull it back.. to save both fuel and aggravation. (You won't have a gate available if you are that early)