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Originally Posted by Boris Badenov  Hmmm. An interesting, on topic thread with good points made all around and no name calling. Who are you and what have you done with jetcareers? |
Its about time. Frankly I like detailed discussions on the "absolutes" or the "this is how it should be done" topics because it makes for interesting discourse that everybody walks away from a little more knowledgeable.
I think being airframe and mission specific is incredibly important in this discussion, stevec was talking about the acceleration rates being so high that 80 - v1 is so fast that there's not really much time to even think about it, whereas at 80kts in the 1900, there's still plenty of time to v1 (couple seconds at least). Further, we'd get faulty annunciations in ours all the time. We'd get {L/R Bl. Air Fail} sometimes for no reason (electrical gremlins, the Bleeds always worked great) and the temptation to abort was great, but as soon as it appeared it was gone, just a phantom flickering. If we'd have aborted at 80kts to v1, we'd have done so for no reason. We'd get a {Bat. Charge} light all the time too, which would be disconcerting.