re: Aborted takeoffs

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How can it possibly be necessary to fly 240 times in a year?

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Assuming 4 segments per trip, that's only 60 trips. Which is 1 a week plus a few personal trips on the weekend, and a busy week of 2 trips to deal with a priority item.

Sit next to a lot of national accounts sales people, senior consultants, etc. that will drop into a location for a day or two and meet with the team and leave.

One aborted takeoff, no aborted landings.

When I was 19 I flew vision airlines to gulf shores to meet a girl I was fooling around with and stay at her friends beach house. On the way back, we get on the runway, half way down they pulled the power back. Go back to runway, same thing happens again. We then sit in the hot arse plane for two hours with trashy arse passengers screaming and telling them they want off the plane. Great experience.

Cuse- how was getting back with the strike and such???

I caused a few aborted landings of commercial airlines when I was a student pilot. Those regional jets tend to go a lot faster than a Cessna

Years ago on a landing in the DR. Landing gear hits the runway, then plane then bounces back up 20 - 30 ft before landing more smoothly probably 5 seconds later. Definitely freaked everyone out and glad it was apparently a long runway.

KillTheGophers- it definitely has perks and drawbacks.

Perks- miles, first class 75% of the time, seeing new places (35 and only a handful of states I have not seen... I don't count layovers in that number), trying local food and such, and meeting interesting people

Cons- early mornings, late nights, middle seats (rare but happens a couple times a year), time away from home, and my diet sucks!

I love it though. The 240 pace this year is excessive. I wouldn't mind backing it back down to say 150 or so. Thinking about it that would be like 10 flights a month the remainder of the year so that won't happen. shite I have 10 flights in one week now in April.

Never an aborted takeoff.

Mid 90s, flying in a prop into Hattiesburg on Northwest one night, couldn't have been more than a couple of hundred feet off the ground, runway lights go completely dark. Just poof. About 10 seconds later, they came back on again, but pilot was like, nope, pulled up, went around, landed about 20 min later with no incident.

About 5 years ago, was on a delta flight ATL-MSY late at night and, to this day I don't know what happened, but we circled MSY 8 times before we landed.