![]() ![]() So lately I’ve been noticing some distinct differences between my two main systems. So if visibility is very low, AND ATC gets sloppy with their spacing, AND something happens with one of the aircraft at just the wrong time, AND communication is slow, it's very feasable that people could die. It's a dangerous situation that is mitigated by tower and atc providing "ifr spacing" which is a larger interval between takeoffs and landings in low vis conditions. If it is really low vis however, and landing traffic can't see you, and tower can't see you, and you abort and don't tell anyone fast enough, then you can have some bent metal. If tower sees the problem and realizes the interval is too small, he will order landing traffic to go around. If it's a clear day, he'll observe you aren't airborne and go around on his own, and advise tower. If you abort, and now aren't going to be airborne the guy landing needs to "go around" and climb away from the runway and try again. If tower sees you rolling for takeoff, and clears the next guy to land assuming you'll be airborne before he gets there (which happens frequently) you can have a problem. So if you are taking off, and engine fails, and you elect to keep it on the ground and stop, you own the runway at that point go ahead and stop, and let tower know you are stopping when it's convenient for you (your engine blowing up/keeping the plane out of the grass being higher priorities). They also give you the runway for takeoff when they clear you. ![]() Tower clears you to land, which can mean slightly different things in different countries but gives you the runway to stop on. Instruments will bring you down to the runway in bad weather, but once you're near/on the runway you are looking out the window and tracking the centerline while using a combo of brakes, thrust reversers and spoilers to stop. ![]() Click to expand.I'm not sure of the details of the event you are referencing, but I'll take a crack at it. ![]()
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