Originally Posted by
flyguyniner11
NWS is driven off one of the left buses so w/o the bus tie on it wouldn't work. I had her call me about a gate return because the right side ahars wouldn't initialize. I just ok'd her to death. I'd do the same thing again.
That's a perfectly legitimate reason to do a gate return.. you cannot takeoff without both AHARS working properly ... now if one of them failed on the TO roll, that might be a different story. IMHO you definitely did the right thing. A gate return is a hell of a lot better than an aborted TO