<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Time and safety. It takes more time to safely get the airplane to the takeoff initiation point and it is safer for the airplane to be carried than taxied over uneven ground/pavement and safer for the airplane to be moved away from the runway by the caller in case an airplane is landing on the runway.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Ron Van Putte</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 27, 2007, at 2:51 PM, Jay Marshall wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV class="Section1"><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Why, in competitions, does the caller carry the plane to the line for TO and retrieve it for landing? Why not taxi?</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial"> </SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P><B><I><FONT size="4" face="Brush Script MT"><SPAN style="font-size:13.5pt; font-family:" brush="" script="" mt";font-weight:bold;font-style:italic"="">Jay </SPAN></FONT></I></B><B><I><FONT size="4" face="Brush Script MT"><SPAN style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:" brush="" script="" mt";="" font-weight:bold;font-style:italic"="">Marshall</SPAN></FONT></I></B> </P><DIV><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt"> </SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">NSRCA-discussion mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion">http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>