Originally Posted by
DisMyGamerTag
next time in CQ, after everything is done ask for a full power engine fail with severe damage at the sweet spot of100-100 knots and have both pilots stay on the rudder to a stop.
You wont end up in the grass.
i used to instruct for years on the 320 and the only times I saw aircraft on an RTO in the grass is when the Captain called Abort I have the aircraft and the FO as PF completely let go or the low speed aborts with pilots having their heels on the floor (320 issue) and feet away from the brakes. Those were the only times anyone ever departed pavement.
Then the Capt shouldn't be saying "I Have the aircraft" if he/she doesn't in fact have said aircraft.
It's the non-standardization.....if I'm hand flying an approach and the Captain says "I have the aircraft", I'm letting go ASAP! What if it's another DCA scenario and other pilot sees the helicopter and doesn't have time to tell me about it.....the few seconds of cross control could be the difference between life and death.
So in one scenario when the Capt says "I have the aircraft" I need to wait until my spidey senses feel the other pilot on the controls but the other "I have the aircraft" my life depends on letting go ASAP'ly.
There shouldn't be a difference...THAT's the problem with not being standardized.
Delta wants their Captains to have abort authority....great....they can still call for the abort and the FO/PF can do it...military has been doing it that way for decades and decades.
IMO this is a classic "if there were a better way we would already be doing it" arrogance thing and Delta fails to realize how different they are when looking at how the pilots are taught from Cessna 172 through decades of military flying....those decades of muscle memory of just letting go isn't broken just because Delta says so in a WARTS brief.