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The book doesn't actually say that about your airplane. In fact, what it gives you is climb rate performance. For a new (read: perfect) aircraft. Flown by a test pilot. You are taking that data and interpreting it to mean that you should keep flying. The book, on the other hand, perhaps recognizing that an older aircraft may have a bit more drag and a bit less engine horsepower, and that the pilot may be a little slow in feathering, tells you that discontinuing the takeoff is usually the best practice. Heed that advice, not the test data.
As to stopping distance, do a simple test. I took my old 337D to a long-runway airport, took it up 50 feet, brought it down and measured how much runway I used from shut-down to stop.
Ernie
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02-20-06, 11:08 PM
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