Training and Workforce
Should Pilots Rethink the Go/No Go Decision at V1?
FlightSafety training director Dann Runik recently offered examples of why pilots shouldn’t necessarily abort takeoffs for CAS alerts.

FlightSafety International advanced training director Dann Runik may be considered an expert on the potential dangers of high-speed rejected takeoffs. That wasn’t the case just a few years ago, however, before a major business aviation OEM identified a disturbing trend in the number of incidents involving abort decisions at or above V1 takeoff decision speed.

“The people in [the OEM’s] flight ops said, ‘We need to do something about this,’” he recounted to attendees at the 2015 Citation Jet Pilots Association (CJP) Convention earlier this year. “‘As an OEM, we want to write guidance of how to make the go/no go decision.’”