Originally Posted by
Andy_P
I am just (or was till I hit a kangaroo on my motorcycle) learning to do soft field take off now, so interesting to watch this. I didn't think that ground affect would make that amount of difference in a high wing aircraft.
You can tell how it does, because the aircraft is almost controllable whilst in ground effect (about 10-15'), though it's not really going anywhere (due to the 'control' technique used, which is coarse, and too nose high) but within seconds of managing to coax the poor old girl out of ground effect, it stalls and spuds in.