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Old 02-16-2008 | 01:44 PM
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Originally Posted by olympic
There is nothing to debate. V1 is your takeoff decision speed. Looking at performance books or even charts V1 is made with a buffer knowing that the pilot will need to retard throttles, apply brakes etc. etc.
Tell that to the concord that went through an apartment building.

When I was at Flight Safety one thing they hammered was that not every circumstance can be covered by a small list of procedures. There are other instances where aircraft would have made it had they not decided to takeoff. In the sim do what you're suppose to but in real life I feel the CA is still the final authority. If you have a couple miles of airstrip in front of you there's no reason you can't come to a stop. You fly in the airplane in and land on smaller strips than that at higher speeds with no problems. Why risk taking off and melting the thing when you know you can easily stop in the remaining distance? You could stop, deplane, and run from the thing before you even got on final to make your landing. Those checklist are made on statistics but that's why robots aren't flying the things. Some circumstances might require alternate actions. I'd rather live to argue it than die with others knowing, "He did everything right there just wasn't enough time".
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