Tony,
Originally Posted by
TonyC
During takeoff roll, I've got more important things to watch than an airplane that I'll probably be overtaking. Especially with the newer takeoff profiles we're using (early acceleration), I would be disinclined to accept responsibility for spacing unless the conditions were optimal.
This has always been my impression -- that
pilots were supposed to
fly the airplane, and
controllers were supposed to
separate the aircraft. The longer I watch things change within the FAA, it seems as if these roles are getting mixed together.
There have been previous discussions on this forum about Visual Separation with regards to Visual Approaches, and many of the comments were the same -- you guys want to fly the aircraft, and you want ATC to separate you from any surrounding aircraft.
I wonder who could have been operating 727s and DC-10s.
Well... I wonder too! :-)
Take care,
MEM_ATC