Comment by panxyh

Oh, cheers then :)

But regarding flight ability, wouldn't that be V2? I thought there exist conditions where V1 is well below rotation speed.

Anyways,

> to make sure you can stop before the end of the runway

answers my main question, and makes sense from a procedural standpoint.

But still, hard to believe that there is no room for in-situ evaluation if runway overrun is worse than likely crash. Of course then again, those have to be split second decisions.