Originally Posted by
cp44fla
There is so much wrong with this post I don't even know where to start.
I say the same about your post.
We use stop margin for one thing: whether to choose another runway or not.
I've never seen a pilot refuse a takeoff because of a small stop margin. I've seen plenty of 777 takeoffs that had a stop margin of less than 250 '.
The stop margin is a tool to see whether the closer runway is acceptable, or whether we need to taxi to a longer runway.
If you take off with a tiny stop margin on a shorter runway (or with a tailwind), when you could have taxied a little longer to a better stop margin, and something happens and you screw up an abort, get ready. NONE of this pressure to use the closest runway is in writing. It's all verbal. It'll just be you sitting at the table, explaining why you decided to not use the big runway. The one that Fred Smith paid for (36C), so we could use it......