Originally posted by Evan
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V1 gives you enough room to complete a take-off with one engine failed.
But it also gives you enough (many times barely enough) room to STOP in the remaining runway, and here it doesn't matter why you stop. Try to stop after V1 and chances are that you'll overrun.
That's why the mindset is trained to be "GO" after V1. There only 2 or 3 reasons to abort after V1. Two of them are "unsafe" and "unable to fly". But that'n quite fuzzy, not like there is an "abort" horn, so it might take a bunch of seconds to judge if the plane is unsafe or unable to fly.
Please tell me you don't go flying with a control surface issue.
In any event, I'd ask what happened with the "locks ==> off, controls ==> free and correct, stall barrier ==> test".
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