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Old 6th Apr 2009, 20:10
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Smilin_Ed
 
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have I got your message right, Ed? You're suggesting there's someone out there (you?) who'd sit there and conduct a pre-takeoff brief that included the gem that he would abort AFTER the nose wheel was off the ground?
No, Wiley you do not have the message right. V1, by definition, is the speed where, if you have a problem you can still stop in the remaining runway available. If you have a long enough runway you will get to Vr before you reach the point beyond which you don't have room to stop. That means that V1 is beyond Vr, but you have already rotated so it doesn't matter. You never really get to V1, except in the air.

I seem to remember this all started when I suggested that intersection takeoffs are not smart because you have discarded some of your safety factor. SOP won't save you in court.
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