On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:18:06 -0400, Roger wrote:

What puzzles me is not the decision to take off, but rather the low
climb rate and the decision to use runway 27. If the weather resembled
what was reported nearby at OKV, runway 9 would have had a negligible
tailwind component.

Probably the same reason after all these years of using tools I stuck
my thumb in a table saw a little over a month ago. Up 16 hours,
something on his mind, decision making capabilities gone out the
window.

Not making excuses but doctors (for one of many professions) are like
this. They are forced to have to deal with fatigue and high level
decision making, it usually is someone else's life. Familiarity breeds
contempt (of life possibly ITC)