" . . .to do the takeoff, at night, at a Special Airport, on a WET, UNGROOVED runway with pooling water . . . "
The video shows it to be
daylight in light rain. MDE/SKRG 3500m [11,483'] Rwy-36 is significantly sloped up hill, [58' higher at Rwy18 threshold] with hardly any propensity for water to be "pooling."
" . . . all the training in the world cannot prepare you for what happened to them. Sure, you will say I NEVER attempt a reject after V1...AHEM AHEM...I have seen this done countless times in the SIM by seasoned pilots who think they CANNOT make it by taking it airborne."
"All the training in the world" at most carriers teaches captains to get their hands off the throttle levers by V1 and to keep them off! In the past 20 years I haven't seen any pilots in the sim aborting after V1 because they had "thought" that they couldn't get airborne, . . . perhaps because they would bust their sim check!
