Aileron

Super busy at KPAO today. We were number four or five in sequence waiting for departure when a twin had an engine fail at the start of its takeoff roll. Black smoke, tried to get it restarted for a couple minutes before finally taxiing off the runway with its one good engine. Caused, I think, two go-arounds. And then, while on the taxiway, gets the engine restarted, and elects to takeoff. I'd feel better at that point going back to parking and having a good look at the engine, but maybe they knew something I didn't. Anyway, lots of time wasted sitting in the runup. It was also hot.

We finally got up and did some airwork out past Stanford. I got tired faster than I care to admit, so we skipped landing practice.

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