diff --git a/app/components/live-atc/cockpit/SettingsSheet.vue b/app/components/live-atc/cockpit/SettingsSheet.vue
index d381e65..ed3c14e 100644
--- a/app/components/live-atc/cockpit/SettingsSheet.vue
+++ b/app/components/live-atc/cockpit/SettingsSheet.vue
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ const prerecEnabled = defineModel<boolean>('prerecEnabled', { required: true })
 const prerecSeconds = defineModel<number>('prerecSeconds', { required: true })
 const aiTrafficEnabled = defineModel<boolean>('aiTrafficEnabled', { required: true })
 const autoTuneEnabled = defineModel<boolean>('autoTuneEnabled', { required: true })
+const forceRto = defineModel<boolean>('forceRto', { required: true })
+const forceGoAround = defineModel<boolean>('forceGoAround', { required: true })
 
 /**
  * Shown while AI traffic is on. These are deliberate v1 boundaries from the
@@ -170,6 +172,42 @@ const AI_TRAFFIC_LIMITS = [
           </v-expand-transition>
         </div>
 
+        <!-- Both of these happen on their own roughly once in five hundred
+             flights, which is the point of them — you cannot practise reacting
+             to something you were told to expect. These switches are for
+             teaching them deliberately, so they apply to the NEXT flight rather
+             than the one in progress. -->
+        <div class="pt-2 border-t border-white/10 space-y-3">
+          <div>
+            <p class="text-xs uppercase tracking-[0.3em] text-white/40">Special scenarios</p>
+            <p class="text-[11px] text-white/50 mt-1">
+              Force a rare event on the next flight instead of waiting for it. Both
+              otherwise occur by chance, about once in five hundred flights.
+            </p>
+          </div>
+          <v-switch
+              v-model="forceRto"
+              color="amber"
+              inset
+              label="Rejected take-off (Tower cancels)"
+              hide-details
+          />
+          <v-switch
+              v-model="forceGoAround"
+              color="amber"
+              inset
+              label="Go-around (Tower breaks off the approach)"
+              hide-details
+          />
+          <v-expand-transition>
+            <p v-if="forceRto || forceGoAround" class="text-[11px] text-amber-300/80">
+              Applies when you start the next flight. A rejected take-off ends with
+              the aircraft stopped on the runway; a go-around sends you back to
+              Approach — neither continues to the stand.
+            </p>
+          </v-expand-transition>
+        </div>
+
         <div class="pt-2 border-t border-white/10 space-y-3">
           <div>
             <p class="text-xs uppercase tracking-[0.3em] text-white/40">Voice input</p>
diff --git a/app/composables/useLiveAtcSession.ts b/app/composables/useLiveAtcSession.ts
index 0181a6c..dd44ff4 100644
--- a/app/composables/useLiveAtcSession.ts
+++ b/app/composables/useLiveAtcSession.ts
@@ -36,6 +36,13 @@ export interface LiveAtcSessionDeps {
   isRecording: Ref<boolean>
   /** Settings toggle: dial in the new frequency automatically after a handoff. */
   autoTuneEnabled: Ref<boolean>
+  /**
+   * Special-scenario switches. Read once when the session is created, so
+   * toggling one mid-flight applies to the next flight — which is how an
+   * instructor sets one up without the pilot seeing it coming.
+   */
+  forceRto: Ref<boolean>
+  forceGoAround: Ref<boolean>
   bridgeConnected: Ref<boolean>
   bridgePosition: Ref<{ lat: number; lon: number } | null>
   /** ?token=… from the route — auths the frequency-sim-control channel (design §4). */
@@ -65,7 +72,8 @@ export function useLiveAtcSession(
 
   const {
     state, freq, speech, radioBackend, api, config, prefetchAtisAudio,
-    isRecording, autoTuneEnabled, bridgeConnected, bridgePosition, bridgeToken,
+    isRecording, autoTuneEnabled, forceRto, forceGoAround,
+    bridgeConnected, bridgePosition, bridgeToken,
     persistSelectedPlan, maybeShowFirstRunHelp,
   } = deps
 
@@ -696,6 +704,12 @@ export function useLiveAtcSession(
       handoff_freq:     v.handoff_freq     || '131.150',
     }
 
+    // Special scenarios. Only sent when switched on: the backend treats the
+    // variable's absence as "leave it to chance", and sending false would pin
+    // the roll off rather than leaving it alone.
+    if (forceRto.value) backendVariables.force_rto = true
+    if (forceGoAround.value) backendVariables.force_go_around = true
+
     // VFR flights identify by aircraft registration, not an airline callsign.
     // Assign a German D-registration and its abbreviated form (D-EMIL -> D-IL,
     // first letter + last two), which ATC uses after the first call. Mirror it
diff --git a/app/pages/live-atc.vue b/app/pages/live-atc.vue
index 734c08c..3752535 100644
--- a/app/pages/live-atc.vue
+++ b/app/pages/live-atc.vue
@@ -142,6 +142,8 @@
             v-model:prerec-seconds="prerecSeconds"
             v-model:ai-traffic-enabled="aiTrafficEnabled"
             v-model:auto-tune-enabled="autoTuneEnabled"
+            v-model:force-rto="forceRto"
+            v-model:force-go-around="forceGoAround"
             @set-theme="setPmTheme"
         />
 
@@ -321,6 +323,11 @@ const aiTrafficEnabled = ref(false)
 // working the radio is part of what is being practised, so turning it over to
 // the aircraft has to be a deliberate choice.
 const autoTuneEnabled = ref(false)
+// Special scenarios: force a rare intervention on the next flight rather than
+// waiting for its ~0.2% chance. Read when the session is created, so toggling
+// mid-flight affects the next one — which is also how you teach them.
+const forceRto = ref(false)
+const forceGoAround = ref(false)
 
 // ── Bug Report ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 // Owned here rather than by the dialog: the HUD button starts the screenshot
@@ -599,6 +606,8 @@ const session = useLiveAtcSession(engine, {
   prefetchAtisAudio,
   isRecording,
   autoTuneEnabled,
+  forceRto,
+  forceGoAround,
   bridgeConnected,
   bridgePosition,
   bridgeToken,