Originally Posted by
softener
i agree with what everyone is saying so far. however, an engine fire light could mean anything. i do not know how serious the fire is. if it is a fuel fire, my extinquishers may not work. if i go airborne, i may not get back down. Obviously, on a shorter runway, it is a different story. i would not have stayed on the ground for anything else....just the fire light.
"Is my engine really on fire?" There go another 500 feet.
"If the engine's on fire, the extinguishers might not work once we're airborne." One thousand feet.
"I think this runway's long enough to abort, even though we're above V1." Fifteen hundred feet.
"Yeah, let's go ahead and abort." Now you're 2000 feet further down the runway and doing who-knows-what-speed more than V1.
Get my point?