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Originally Posted by Bog  Ophir: any chance you tried the t/o rolling? Something tells me that if those guys had been hustling to meet a flow time, they might have kept it rolling around the turn.
Here's another thought about being the PVT pilot who sounds the alarm that something is wrong. Even if you're right, will the flight crew admit to it after aborting a takeoff? I'd have to imagine that it'd be awfully tempting to claim you had a nutso passenger causing a disturbance in the back, which resulted in an aborted takeoff, then to claim you aborted a takeoff in an erroneous situation thanks to the bravery of a private pilot.
Basically, even if you're right, be prepared to be held in a cold cell for at least a little while. |
We went static just because we knew we wouldn't make it otherwise. I was about 90% N1 when I released the brakes. With flaps 8 I rotated just at the grass.
We were starting our t/o roll a few months ago and we heard this yelling in the cabin. The Captain and I just looked at each other when we heard it and going through about 80kts. The thought was "What the hell was that? Should we abort?" But we continued. It turns out it was some pax yelling to his friend in the back about some #####. Little did they know that we heard it and thought about aborting. Things are definitely different after 9/11 but the only way we would abort would be to have the FA making it very clear that we needed to.