To stop or not to stop....
I had an interesting debate recently with a colleague. My leg from XXX to YYY (longhaul), carrying about 63t of gas in a 767-300. so hevy weight, and overweight landing if immediate return in a hurry..
Briefed the standard stuff, then went on to mention if he were to drop dead or words to that effect....
As a reasonably experienced F/O I would feel quite happy carrying out an RTO upto a point, I make a point of asking to do one from RHS at every LPC/OPC as a training element. I usually decide on this arbitrary 'in my head' figure on the day based on a number of points, such as weather/weights/wind/runway length etc etc..
When mentioning this, my colleague insisted that once the 80kts call was made and responded to, we were going into the air unless he stopped the a/c for whatever reason....prior to V1 of course!
I questioned his logic and was somewhat beaten into submission, especially as we had 2 log sectors ahead of us in the next 2 days....