Editor's note: The first of James Albright's rethinking V1 article series appears here. Neural reaction time has been said to be faster than the speed of light. (I must admit that I can’t see how that ...

Just about everyone these days has settled on the same litany of callouts during takeoff: “80 knots,” “Vee one,” “Rotate” and “Vee two.” Some operators use 100 kt. instead of 80 kt. and the V2 call is ...