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Blown two (seperate occasions) on landing in a Falcon 20. Couldn't tell until turning off the runway.
Question for you Falcon, did you pull the chute??
I can't say anything about aircraft with single tire applications, so there's my disclaimer, I suppose.
Otherwise, my sticking points are this: A momentary shove away from the centerline or even a nasty lurch that is recovered from is not a loss of directional control. "Very difficult" to control is not a qualifying high-speed reject item to me(in a jet).
I notice that most of the "abort" side of the conversation with experience, if memory serves, have all contended that they were on runways of considerable length; 10-11k feet. Usually if I'm launching on a runway of that size I'll mention it in a brief that will allow for sort of relaxing the high-speed reject items.
It concerns me a little to see so many of us making blanket statements that pretty much fly right in the face of almost all of our training. The major pitfall here being that we aren't always operating on runways with such liberal dimensions and to get in the mindset of sort of making up our own rules(not to be overdramatic) will one day lead to a wrinkled up airplane. I said it earlier, too, but I think it bears repeating......these reject items become almost exponentially more important as airframe weight increases.
I think it was mentioned earlier: it's the ground that's causing all that vibration and all those other problems......get away from it and give yourself a little time to think. In review: --SERIOUSLY consider your runway length(and know BFL). --Consider every takeoff as unique; just because you've seen it before doesn't make the same reaction jermaine every time. --Remember that this list of reject items finds its roots in statistics, high speed rejects are statistically ugly in the end. And how ever you react stick with your decision: if you're alive it worked, but maybe just that once, so keep an open mind.
I sum up my opinion with this: I think of flying jets as a blend of art and science. The art keeps people comfortable, the science keeps people safe. Science doesn't allow much for gut reactions.