Originally Posted by
tubby linton
Winslow Arizona (KINW) has two runways of around 7000 ft but it is almost 5000ft amsl. This might have caught a few people out but having flown previously flown through Central Africa there should have been some awareness of density altitude.
http://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.av...16LA106&akey=1
Thank you TL.
So given a density altitude of about 7,223 feet and a pressure altitude of 4,757 feet.
A 300hp Stearman, two POB and an assumed full fuel load, just how much runway would have been ahead of her as she lost power at 50ft in a normal climb?
Would any sensible pilot, given the conditions, elect for mid-point departure? (I would doubt it)
Would you expect this to end in nothing more than a brown-trouser moment, or would it result in some let's-save-the-day heroics avoiding power-lines, which I estimate to be a further 2500ft away to the right of the climb-out lane.