"Teacherjh" wrote in message
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... unless you can't take off without an IFR clearance, and there's
incoming.
But I suppose the controller would take care of that when it happened.

Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, sure. Who wants to be the hundredth?

It just seems that the end of the runway is a bad place to be unless
you're
ready to go.

It is. And no controller can make you sit there. They don't fly the plane.
You do.

Pete