Originally Posted by
djpil
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?
POH dry sealed surface and 50' threshold. Don't know more than that. 850 metres gives a 50% margin for the wet grass and the fence at the northern end is just a post and wire fence separating the airfield from the farm next door.
I did note someone else's comment that there had been a recent local excursion and I know of others so there you go...it happens.
I think Lilydale is the nicest airfield in the Melbourne basin but I'm biased towards grass strips.
Kaz