Originally Posted by
Bill Greenwood
Recently I was cleared for takeoff, and was part way down the runway when I decided to close the throttle and slow down and pull off at the last exit from the runway.
I had barely left the runway when the tower controller was demanding on the radio to "say my intentions". He then demanded. "say the reason for the abort". When he was screaming about my "intentions' I wasnt even on the runway and was in a non controlled "non movement" area.
My thought is that it is none of his business, and certainly not in the way he was going about it which was treating just a rejected takeoff as like some kind of emergency.
So my question, is does anyone know if there is a legal FAR reason why a pilot has to explain an aborted takeoff to a controller, and should he even be making such a demand?