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Old 23rd Jul 2003, 23:48
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FlyingForFun

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AC-DC - no.

When I want to take off on a very hot day from a short runway up in the mountains, I use the aircraft's performance graphs to find out if it's possible or not. To use the graph, I need to know the pressure altitude, and the temperature - like I said in my first post. At no point do I (explicitly) calculate the density altitude.

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