Should have cut the throttle halfway down the runway....
Pilot clearly saw lack of power...had plenty of places to set down...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDu0jYiz-v8&feature=player_embedded
FAA will rule this "pilot error"...
Byron
High, hot, heavy, and underpowered 'll get ya.
I get 9150 density altitude.
...Lucky to be alive...
by Rob Leahy 
, Prescott, Arizona, Friday, August 10, 2012, 13:50 (4490 days ago) @ Byron
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Of the Troops & For the Troops
High, hot, heavy, and underpowered 'll get ya.
That is not exactly the plane I would chose for such endeavors.
I am wondering if he didn't blow a jug or something. On the original video I thought I heard a pitch change, in the second video I am almost sure of it, and his AOA appears to increase slightly with the noise change right before he heads down. I am on my IPad so the Speakers are not that great and I could be all wrong.
I have had to bounce one once or twice to finally get airborne it is not a good feeling. An am sure he was to heavy for the DA, but I think there might be more to it.
...Lucky to be alive...
by Fivegunner , LOWELL Mi., Friday, August 10, 2012, 16:37 (4489 days ago) @ Rob Leahy
Thank God they got out alive, very stupid why take a chance?
Should have cut the throttle halfway down the runway....
by Bob Hatfield , Saturday, August 11, 2012, 04:45 (4489 days ago) @ Byron
I'll swear in the 1st camera slow motion near the end you can see the camera show a Kindle or an some type of big IPOD type thingy in the pilots hand.
Nice warm day for them though.
Bob