Well, if the runway is long enough, where's the real risk?
I know there are some idiots out there but that takes the biscuit. I can only hope to God you're not a pilot with an attitude like that.
So just how long do you think is "long enough"? What if it's a 600m strip with houses at the end? What if you're taking friends or your girlfriend flying and the engine quits at 500 feet and you have nowhere to go? Imagine how you'll feel in the final seconds before impact, responsible for those lives!
Or do you think you know better than the guy that wrote the checklist?!
Run ups are done to ensure everything is working okay when you are about to depend on it the most, and they take all of 30 seconds to do! Coming on here and questioning that is pretty bloody stupid. You're checking for mags, t's and p's and no carb-icing. All pretty crucial in a SEP just before you firewall the throttle and put your life in the hands of that engine.
Flying is risky enough at the best of times, so anyone who doesn't try to minimise that risk deserves everything they get, in my view.
All I know is I'm glad I'll never be flying with you
