Timeline for What is the cause of possible crash in an accidental low RPM takeoff?
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| Sep 18, 2022 at 18:59 | vote | accept | mkay | ||
| Sep 15, 2022 at 21:06 | comment | added | John K | You would have to have someone that is nearly catatonic from exhaustion to do this in the first place. The throttle and prop levers are adjacent to each other on the throttle quadrant, and you normally confirm with your hand that both are forward as you set takeoff power with throttle. So someone that burned out could miss just about anything, including other, fairly obvious, cues that something is amiss.. | |
| Sep 15, 2022 at 14:12 | comment | added | mkay | This looks like a great answer! However, there's the other pilot aspect I'd like to know: why wouldn't a pilot abort the takeoff if the aircraft is clearly not speeding up like it should? Pilots involved in these incidents were often not newcomers, so I'd assume they already had developed a "gut feeling" about how the plane would accelerate in a normal takeoff, and also that a fully loaded fighter-bomber would speed up very sluggishly if the engine was only making roughly half of the usual takeoff power. Was the slow acceleration somehow evident only when it was already too late to stop? | |
| Sep 11, 2022 at 0:03 | history | answered | John K | CC BY-SA 4.0 |