Accelerate/Stop Question

[nosehair]

...uummm, my comment about "Big Buck$" was tounge-in-cheek. My main point was, and is, that if I am in a situation, like in Bush Alaska, or (insert your favorite drama here) and I decide (within the legal limits of 91) to make a T.O. in a multiple-engined airplane from a runway that does not satisfy accel/stop distance, then it carries the same considerations I would have with a single-engine. If, on T.O., an engine, any engine quits, then I throttle back the other one(s), and slide/land on the best available surface ahead, just like we all do in a single. Now, obviously, I'm talking from a light-twin view-point.

Taking off in a large multiple-engined airplane would not have the same considerations, you couldn't say "OK, take the Caravan" to do the job.

 

[Lead Sled]

Nosehair...

I hear ya, and guess what? We've all been there and done that. However, if you find yourself relaxing your "high personal standards" too often you WILL eventually get bit. It may not be today or tomorow but if you're in this business long enough it will get you. You can ignore the issues, but they never go away - they simply lie in wait. It's just another way of saying "There are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots."

Lead Sled