747Focal
All I said was that sometimes in hindsight some pilots might choose to throw the brakes on after V1.
Dont see any reject after V1 on a field limited runway resulting in a low speed overrun.
Think you spend too much time at zero g zero airspeed, the risks you will end up on fire dead off the end off the runway rejecting are high speed above V1 are significant, espically with an old airframe, old tires, old engines, and a tired crew.
Dont agree with your extra flap idea either, will that improve things for all segments in the case of an engine failure, or you taking about a 4 engine takeoff roll only ?
Oh well ... interested to hear what response you get Safety Guy, I guess we will never know who set those powers, the engineer or pilot
Rockhound
It is common for the flight engineer to trim the power levers at any stage, on the ground or airborne, the pilots will remove their hands from the throttles at V1