Safetypee....your words are water to a dying man in the desert...
Mad - Based on the evidence, I can run up and down the runway, holding the nose down till well after 120kts, and have a better chance of bedding Pamela Anderson then putting more then a little mud on the tires at the end.
Cling to brake failures and RTOs being deadly and anything after V1 is 'danger danger Will Robinson' but the statistics don't bear it out.
The only thing that bears out is that if the crews, aborting at whatever speed they abort, had more runway...they would not have blown the tires, and put the mud into the gear..
You want to reduce RTO issues...stop assumed thrust / derated departures...give the crews more runway to work with...
Last edited by johns7022; 10th Dec 2010 at 02:32.