[mcav]

You're an airplane pilot trying to get your bird off the ground. You have to attain a certain velocity to succeed. If your runway is short, you'd better open the throttle wide -- and if it isn't working, you have to decide pretty quickly to give up and try again.

But if the runway is longer, you have more time: continue building speed until you have enough force to lift off.

You just want to avoid giving up when you had plenty of runway.

[9oliYQjP]

Much more succinctly put than I could have put it, but spot on! The problem I'm seeing is a greater number of pilots that think they're flying Harrier jump jets when they're really piloting Cessnas :)