SSG,
PBakes...the brake energy argument is a tired old excuse to say 'let's go'
You have no clue if your brakes will fail on landing, much less on an RTO...and you use your brakes on both...
If my brakes did fail I'd much prefer it to be on landing than at the beginning of an RTO, for reasons that any sane pilot will not require explaining.
A heavy aircraft, using 9000ft of a 10000ft runway to rotate? I don't see anything wrong with that. Maybe his V1 was at 6000ft? You will never know unless you are in that flight deck, This might interest you....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feGZ4l5fk4Q
please note, this is a real video, not flightsim.
So the pilots in that clip had poor or no situational awareness?
SNS3Guppy, I think the phrase "flogging a dead horse" has never been more fitting.