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Old 20th Feb 2005, 17:32
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FlyingForFun

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Some aircraft have a shorter take off roll than landing roll. The cessna 185 is a good example of this.
I was wondering how long it would take someone to say that. My Europa also has a shorter take-off than landing. When I was preparing to take it into a short field, I spent months (literally) practicing short-field landings at my home field. When I arrived at my short field, I stopped comfortably with almost half the length of the field in front of me. (Actually, I was planning on landing on an even shorter field than this, but had to scrap that flight because the shortest short field had had a fence put in the middle of it, making it too short for me no matter how much I practiced!)

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Nb - there are no performance figures for my home-built aircraft, so part of my practice involved figuring out just how short a field I could safely handle.
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