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Old 2nd Oct 2012, 01:29
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john_tullamarine
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Folk need to be wary of foreign POH data. Generally we are operating from non-critical lengths and it is very easy to fall into the trap of convincing yourself that it is all fine and OK.

Reality is that, for a critically limiting takeoff .. it just might NOT be all OK.

The old style DCA flight manual P charts (a few of which I drew up) were a reasonable balance of being not too optimistic and not too conservative.

You use the foreign POH with uncritical consideration at your peril in the case of critical distance takeoff.

Also 1:15 is not 15% according to my calculator

Allowing for the typo, if 1.15 isn't a 15% pad, what is it ?
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