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Old 30th Jan 2021, 16:15
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B2N2
 
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Take your chances on the ground or take your chances in the air, in the end you alone will be judged for your actions.
I’ll take my chances on the ground thank you.
What is indeed disgusting is the pedantic attitude and the cherry-picking.
Its been said already and I’ll repeat it, he buggered up the RTO.
To focus solely on the reason for the RTO is not seeing the entire picture.

“Airplane unable or unsafe to fly”
Now they had no annunciation but have a read and consider rejecting after V1 and going off the end or taking it “flying”

https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20181111-0
Similar event:

https://www.dw.com/en/german-governm...ing/a-48403681

Now sit back in your armchair and reconsider the above two examples in some of the highest mountainous terrain in the world...at night...with weather.
I’d be more then happy going off the end in these cases.
I’ll even shred my license as I’m walking away from it.
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