Well, I suppose I'm goimg to catch hell for this, but here I go...
WoodJA51 makes a good point re: Chuck Yeager...however, Gen Yeager was in his A/C ALONE...
I have always belived Rules were made for idiots with no common sense...
Getting back to the theme of this thread, some folks seem to feel that it is OK to be a little under the weather when flying...
I might agree with this, but the theory of a little bit won't hurt...
And probably under normal operations everything should be OK...
So now you lose an engine after V1, and the second engine on the same wing shuts down due to debris...
That bit of "under the weather" that you took off with has just killed 200 plus pax plus your crew...
Anyone who doesn't like this post, get the PPrune breathalizer out, because I'm definately "PUI"...(posting umder the influence)...Sorry for my luck...DI3G...