Thanks for all the answers.
The plane i'm gonna fly has a 160 HP engine. The general POH i have for the model is for the 150 HP model.
The take-off perfromace graph sohw a straight line, e.g. linear relation bewtween distance and DA. Therefore, I am assuming a can make a extrapolation.
So, at DA of 9,000 it will use 1750 ft of rwy with paved, level, dry rwy with no wind. I am assuming I won't take-off with a tailwind.
This is of course for a new machine. So lets double this figure: 3500 ft. By the way, it is exactly for the weigt I have planned to take.
So i have a couple of places with doubts:
Sedona, AZ; 5132 ft rwy, expected DA: 7500 ft
Monument Valley, 4000 ft, DA: 8700
Jackson Hole, WY, 6300, DA: 9000
Big Bear: 5850, DA: 11,000!!!!
Big bear in the summer is indeed a little over limits, i see now
I don't know about these. It is above 3500 ft, but it's close. Any ideas?
Grand Canyon will ahve 9000 DA as well, but also 9000 ft rwy, so should be OK.
And I have a stunning 10 HP extra in respect to the POH.
Climb performace will degrade to 200 ft/min @ DA 9,000, again, for a new plane.
Can you please continue to give me some valuable input?
Thanks in advance,
Jeroen
P.S.: I checked
www.weatherunderground.com for average temperatures the ;ast years, to calculate DA. It showed me also that going at the crack of dawn onlyreduced the DA between 500 and 1,000 ft. Will that really make that much of difference?