To deliberately return to the beginning of the runway for an immediate take off when the brakes must have been extremely hot after a V1 minus 10 abort, would have been folly. The back-track taxi distance alone plus the distance of the following take off run would have further raised the temperature of the brakes and tyres to unknown temperatures. Then to deliberately get airborne simply to cool the brakes and tyres in order to maintain a schedule, smacks of poor judgement by the engineer. There is more to good airmanship and sound command judgement than reading theoretical numbers from a book. It might be legal by the book but a decision to conduct an immediate take off, given the stated circumstances, would certainly not have been safe.
What he said.
Besides that, if you had follwed the FE's
advise and it had all gone south, who would have been held responsible, you the captain or the FE?
No need to answer that question, as we all know.