Hot heavy departure

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fridgedoctor

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Tuesday 1st September 2015
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Couple of questions. Last night I was coming home from Corfu, and our flight was delayed in boarding. Once on the aircraft the captain (very professionally) stood upfront and addressed the cabin, explaining we had a bit of an issue.
Due to the high ambient temperature (30c) and the short runway at Corfu, we were unable to load the required amount of fuel for our destination of Glasgow, and would be flying up the Italian coast and fuelling in Venice.
No problems at all, if a bit hot n sweaty during the uplift of fuel as no available AC (no engines and I'd imagine no APU)
My concern was, during the take off run, if we had a problem close to V1 or an engine failure around or after V1, just how uncomfortable for the flight crew would this have been. There is some high ground on the runway heading, and the runway end is so close to a road that they stop the traffic for departures.
Also, 30c isn't unusual in Greece. Just how oftern are takeoffs limited by this sort of thing.
Thanks

fridgedoctor

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220 posts

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Tuesday 1st September 2015
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No mention of humidity or pressure during the wee chat the captain gave, and I think some of the other stuff posted looks about right.
I'm certain no risks were taken, the impression was that anything would be done to avoid em. I just started wondering during the takeoff roll (which was revvy) that any extra issue would've made things awkward. Thankfully no probs.

fridgedoctor

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220 posts

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Wednesday 2nd September 2015
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Hi all. Thanks for the detailed answers. It was an A320 or something like that. I did suspect the high ground at the departure end of the runway figures in the decisions. As said before it was all communicated very well, no drama at all.

fridgedoctor

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Friday 4th September 2015
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Hi again, yeah definitely a Titan job, and no, only a fuel / dispatcher type entered the AC in Venice, briefly. No pax on or off.
Was ta departure towards the mountain. I've never been in or out of Corfu the other direction.