REFLECTOR: grass strips

Douglas Holub douglas.holub at gmail.com
Fri May 24 23:16:27 CDT 2013


There's a cool little airport just three miles from where I live and I'm thinking about hangaring the Velocity there.  But it's a grass strip, just 2700 feet long.  Is there a special technique for taking off from grass?  Maybe I should take some weight off the nose by pulling back on the stick a little while I'm accelerating?

Of course, I'm worried about FOD to the prop.  I know some of you regularly fly out of grass strips. Any advice?  (We have this discussion every now and then, but I guess I don't pay that much attention unless it applies to me.)

Doug Holub
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