Two-engine taxi operations on the 744

[Guest AJ]

>I was doing the KEWR-LLBG flight yesterday and I always watch>flightview.com as I fly to try and see what the real plane is>doing. They left the gate at 4:04 and got off the ground at>like 5:30... They had almost a full hour and a half taxi. I>have been on early morning flights leaving Newark where you>leave the gate and start going in the opposite direction of>the active because the line is so long that it gos the entire>length of the active and wraps around the C terminals. I>tihnk the worst was a flight to Pittsburgh where we were>number 34 for takeoff... >If I remember correctly and there was A LOT of information in>that manual, they might have mentioned a one engine taxi as>well. Am I making that up ;) >-Paul Solk>>Self Built>Liquid Cooled>AMD 64 3400+>2 Gigs Kingston HyperX DDR400>6800GT>Raid-0 Dual SATA Maxtor 120 Gig Hd's>Dual Samsung 997 DF monitorsYeah, I've had flights out of KEWR where the taxi time was as long the time en route.Andrew