(Paul Tomblin) wrote in news:fc67l2$b2s$2
@xen1.xcski.com:

In a previous article, Judah said:
2) As others have pointed out, you certainly had enough of a head start on
him that unless you had some sort of engine failure you would be clear of
the runway long before he caught up to you.

In an interesting coincidence, I was just bringing the plane back from
maintenance to deal with a problem where the engine would fail when
taxiing off the runway. It had happened twice at the end of a series of
touch and goes, never in the air or on a regular point to point flight.
They'd replaced the mags, and the problem seems like it might be fixed -
at least I did 4 touch and goes back at Genesee County where the work had
been done with no evidence of problems.

Interesting. Perhaps because of this you were slightly more anxious than
would be otherwise.

That being said, I'm pretty sure the MD-80 behind you wouldn't have started
barrelling down the runway until he actually saw you at least turn off, even
if you didn't cross the hold short line.