I don't know. It is difficult to determine, but it look as if the plane was
overweighted. If the nose drop slowly to build up the airspeed, the plane
shouldn't lose much altitude. Bottom line, I agreed that the takeoff was
poorly executed. If you pay attention to people's clothing, no winds at all,
or very little.

Toks Desalu
PP-ASEL
Dyin' to Soar


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Check this clip out. What does everyone think happened here?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZWC2XJYgcJU

It looks like a 182, so it had *some* muscle.

I think it must have been hot, maybe a high elevation, loaded with fuel,
people and equipment. But one passenger was a small boy so he couldn't
have been very heavy.

It also looks like a soft-field technique that was poorly executed and he
lost directional control and didn't lower the nose to build airspeed
first.

Very sad,

Kobra