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Old 14th Sep 2009, 08:28
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n5296s - well, if you are doing it for pleasure and you now recognise the dangers of a max performance take-off - I presume you will always request departure and arrival from the runway/taxiway from now on.

An engine is most likely to quit when you ask the most of it during a rapid acceleration.
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