REFLECTOR: Takeoff roll - fuel burn

[SlvEgl99 at aol.com]

I had the same experience taking off (as a passenger) in a KC135 at Seeb  
Airbase in Oman. Seemed like we went forever (we always bet on time of 
takeoff  roll) and then wallowed out over the desert. Must have been 1986  or so  
when I was with CENTCOM as a staff officer on a trip to SW Asia. This 
particular  135 had not been up-engined, so it was a long drag down the runway 
before we got  into the air, then I was not sure that I was really glad to be 
in the air with  the pathetic rate of climb.
 
I also experienced much the same thing in Apple Valley, CA in my Velocity.  
I leaned from that.
 
Bob Wood
XL FG IO540 MT CS Prop[
 
 
In a message dated 5/23/2009 5:54:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
scott at tnstaafl.net writes:

Al  Gietzen wrote:
> I got my wakeup call last summer at Longmont, CO; elev  5100' - runway 
length
> <snip>
> I realized later my  error.  The Koch chart is 'add to normal takeoff'.  I
> should  have been thinking 3 times the sea level requirement.  I've been  
on
> the overly conservative side ever since.
>   
I  too have dragged my mains through the runway end lights a couple times
on  take off.  Both times I can credit to underestimating the effect  of
density altitude.  

Wise call to be overly conservative  Al.  You and your plane will live
long and  prosper!

Scott


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