Originally Posted by
Pinky the pilot
In places like Sopu, Fane and others of their ilk; Yes! SOP in the BN2s was stand on the brakes and go to full power, making sure that the mixture was lean enough to give you max revs.
Once you released the brakes you were committed for take off.
Not necessarily committed to getting airborne, but you're leaving the runway one way or another! I think that was a factor that put me off the most with the job offer. For the half dozen flights I right seated, I flicked through the AFM and was able to tell pretty quickly we were often no less than 2-300 kgs over the Max permissible TOW let alone the environmental MTOW. There was a lot of flat out BS put on the flight manifest. While I appreciate that many nationals were small statured, they were not on average 30 kilos. It was obvious to me that you were flying what was effectively a single engine aeroplane with two power levers.