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Old 6th May 2007, 06:39
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ForkTailedDrKiller
 
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A very good question! I have wondered that myself.

If you ever have a need to get a Baron out of a short strip (ie when you land on an 800 m strip on a cattle station in the Kimberley and have multiple close encounters with ant hills in the middle of the strip):

1) lower 10 degrees of flap
2) conduct a max performance TO
3) pull it off the ground at 60 kts
4) let it accelerate in ground effect to Vs for max angle of climb
6) retract the gear
7) retract the flap

It is amazing just how little runway you need!

but ......... if you loose a donk just after you pull it off the ground - I suspect it will roll onto it back before you know what's happening.

Dr

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