Originally Posted by
FalconWings
i want to emphasize that yes it happened before V1, but had it been after Vr you just get airborne. There's no decision.......just hope your Fuel, Payload and CG calculations were correct so the V's are accurate.
Why do you need to emphasise that, it's pretty bleeding obvious !! Take offs are NOT rejected after V1, that's the whole point of the decision speed concept and the associated performance calculations. ( that's why the PF keeps his hand on thrust levers until V1 and removes them AT. V1)
What you mean is that if it happens after
v1 you continue the take off but AT V1 there is a last chance to make the decision to stop or go and unlike Cactus Flier's drill most airlines reject a take off by going to maximum Braking and FULL reverse until one is absolutely certain of stoping on the remaining runway length. (Does RTO on the ,bus really decelerate at a given rate, I, m told that like Boeings it just gives MAX braking.)
Whatever the cause of this engine failure, it looks like a correctly handled RTO, something any and every pilot should handle with ease, god knows we practiced it enough in the sim. and that captain would have rehearsed it just a minute or so earlier in his "touch drill".
David G.