AirTran Airways Departure @ Los Angeles (LAX) Airport

[Jmendez222]

Now see if there happens to be an error on the departure path down the runway they can notice it quickly and still be on the ground to handle it and stop the plane, but see if they were already in the air.... it might see me to be too late... so they have reason for the things they do.

[worldtravellerplus]

Interesting observation. Though the in my opinion, the quicker you get upto speed, the quicker you are in the air, which in turn means there are less chances for error.

[otterman11]

Nice video. I read somewhere that FL does a reduced thrust take off from LAX (maybe other cities too). So that long takeoff roll is common for FL at LAX. I used to live less than 1mi from LAX a few years back and I would see the FL 737 in the morning (your flight) use as much runway as the KLM 744 leaving for AMS that evening. Every day I'd drive to and from work and see those planes leave.