Aborted Take-Offs

It's amazing how people will see what they want on takeoff; or see what is actually happening and continue with the takeoff anyway. A lot of people aren't wired to abort in a single.
 
I am not sure if I was ever instructed on aborting takeoffs other than the principle rules. I did have my instructor shut off all lights on night time landings though. Good stuff!
 
Yeah, that landing light in the 150 doesn't do too much good anyway.... I don't stress too much if I don't have it.
 
When I was a pre-solo student, one time, on a nice, long 5000 foot runway, my instructor yanked the mixture to cutoff. That'll learn ya real fast.

I was pissed as hell and he said, well, if I don't do that to you, how will I know you'll handle a real engine failure if it happens?
 
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After you get used to having no landing light, it gets pretty simple....

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Yeah, I have practiced landings with out the landing light with my instructor before. They are actually kind of fun. Loosing the landing light on TO roll is really no big deal, but prob worth aborting the TO if safe (adequate runway length, etc). That particular flight I was on a solo night xc and my instructor happened to be in the pattern at the time. He heard me on freq and was pleased that I had aborted the TO.
 
An aborted T/O I remember was back in the 80s. A British Airtours 737 had an engine fire start. The pilot aborted on the runway, started an immediate evacuation, called Tower and asked for the fire trucks. They could only evacuate off 1 side of the plane, but managed to get number of the pax off before the fire reached the cabin. Despit the fire trucks arriving within minutes, the plane's top part of the main fuselage was gone - it happened at Manchester,UK. Link below shows the abort saved lives.


flight details and CVR of take-off
 
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An aborted T/O I remember was back in the 80s. A British Airtours 737 had an engine fire start. The pilot aborted on the runway, started an immediate evacuation, called Tower and asked for the fire trucks. They could only evacuate off 1 side of the plane, but managed to get number of the pax off before the fire reached the cabin. Despit the fire trucks arriving within minutes, the plane's top part of the main fuselage was gone - it happened at Manchester,UK. Link below shows the abort saved lives.


flight details and CVR of take-off

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Manchester/1985 was one of the fastest CFR responses known to date. Crews were on-scene in just around 1 minute from the alarm.
 
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