Originally Posted by
kaz3g
Cessna 340 1850 feet over 50' obstacle and there is nought but a fence to concern an arrival from the north. So it's certainly doable, even wet, if approached with care., I would suggest?
Kaz, I don’t fly biggish airplanes like that either however I used to be a flight performance engineer so I wonder about a few things. Is that 1850 ft from the marketing department or the POH? I guess it is for a dry, sealed runway not a wet, grass strip. Did the certification standard require performance to be achievable by an average pilot or was it from an earlier version of the design regs when the test pilot did his best?