Originally Posted by
ca_flyer
Don't accept any ballpark.
As PIC, you are responsibe for determing the Short Field Takeoff Distance for your particular location. Determine your density altitude and work it out and be conservative. Also take into account the age of your engine and the fact that it may not be pulling all the horses that it had when it was new.
He did point out that he was getting the POH and was just asking for a ballpark. You know the sort of thing, I want to go to X ballpark the aircraft needs XXXm and the strip is XXX so maybe not worth the effort of doing all the calcs....
As a ballpark my 172XP which is the 210BHP wobbly prop variant uses 170m ground roll at max weight which is full fuel and 4 POB.