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Old 2nd Dec 2018, 04:41
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Originally Posted by EDLB
If you start hot and high then the performance is worst right after take off. As higher you climb, as cooler gets the air improving performance of your props, wing and engine. Sure the air gets thinner and counteracts this a bit but to my experience if you make it over the fence hot and high then you make it over 14000feet after one hour.
Really? Airplanes perform better the higher you climb?

You've never actually flown one, have you?
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