B A R R Y wrote:
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:49:21 GMT, john smith wrote:

Remember that while the threshhold is displaced, the pavement behind the
displacement (original runway threshhold) is still available for takeoff.

It can also be easier to see the numbers from the cockpit when the
threshold is displaced. Instead of sitting on the runway numbers at
the start of a takeoff roll, they're now ahead of you, at the
displaced threshold line.

Even without the displaced threshold, they runway numbers are not
at the very end of the runway on an ILS runway. There's the
piano keys first.