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Say it was 80F. Density Alt = 10244. The FBO recommends no take offs after 12, or above 80F. With the downhill and a bit of tailwind...

Then it would be immaterial to what happened unless the engine or prop failed somehow.

It's one of the few runways where it's possible to take off and actually descend right off the end of runway. The other location I've...

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This is hard to describe, and without having been to the airport before, it's hard to believe as well. I offered speculation before and...

That ATC recording was sad. Sounds like a guy with an axe to grind. Do it on the phone, not the radio. Once the engine started, the low...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/details-emerge-deadly-catalina-island-211418833.html Brief; Not enough batt power to start the right engine...

Well said. I have a small grass strip in a rural area just outside a mode C veil. We just had a new hangar built on our private owned...

I think it has been discussed before, but part of the problem with airports 'throwing up' hangars is the new building codes. Costs are...

I had a whole big dissertation written up, and deleted it all. If you think the prod move to China supported the sales of the plane...

https://www.skytough.com/post/cessna-skycatcher-review The 162 was seen as the quintessential flight trainer. Especially since it was...

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?! :D As I recall, in that movie was a plush 1962 or 63 Lincoln Conti with suicide...

According to Cessna, the 'savings' by making it in China amounted to $71,000/plane. But - I think that's hogwash because the initial...

It was fairly cool and light winds across the runway, all in all a great day for Nov. So I hopped in the flivver and did some TO and...

The musings above here bring to mind the C-162. Such high hopes, a lot of interest from every facet of GA how Cessna was going to save...