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Old 22nd Jun 2019, 06:50
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Trossie
 
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If you fly out of FAWB or surrounds the density altitude is most definitely a factor! You will use a lot more runway than you are used to. Watching 'highveld' pilots landing at FAVG was usually rather fun: they would concentrate on short-field landings with the relatively short (sea level!) runway in front of them and find that they stopped just past the numbers!! Not so much runway needed at sea level!

One of my worst landings (by no means the only one!) was at FAGC at night. Judged the round-out by the width of that narrow strip of tar, only to find that the lights were set 'way out' in the grass at 'normal' runway width!! "Gearriveer" was the quiet comment from the pax (with a PPL) sitting behind me!

Tomahawks? They do lovely spins! But those little engines (Tomahawks, C150s, the lot) at those density altitudes just take so long to climb high enough to do a spin!
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