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Could you elaborate? Why would a pilot not know when to turn their engines on, and why is the timing not obvious (eg, "when we want the airplane to move")?
by Cyberdog 3y ago
Could you elaborate? Why would a pilot not know when to turn their engines on, and why is the timing not obvious (eg, "when we want the airplane to move")?
- 93po 3y agoThe engines need time to spin up and warm up, and additionally you might start them then (for a million possible reasons) have delay between starting them and actually pushing back from your gate.
- thom 3y agoEver started your car engine in a parking space but not been able to immediately pull out? Airports are extremely dynamic and complex and do not run like clockwork - they are pushing big hunks of metal through the air and across concrete with constant contention in both cases, and waiting for humans in between. But modern airports do try to optimise their Target Startup Approval Time (TSAT) and you can Google that term if you want to go deeper.