On 25 Nov 2004 04:28:47 -0800, (Ramapriya) wrote in
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e. Pilots pay a lot more than passing attention to wake vortices.
Indeed, the captain waited for almost five minutes on the runway
before deciding to takeoff since a huge Russian cargo plane took off
prior to our departure.

Given the facts, that wingtip vortices begin at the point the aircraft
leaves the ground, and the heavy Russian freighter had rotated far
down the runway because of its weight, and your lightly loaded
aircraft could have easily left the ground substantially before the
point where the freighter had, why couldn't your PIC have departed
whenever he wished? Was he concerned that the prevailing crosswind
component might blow a vortex back on the runway? Parallel runways?