wrote:
: Look at chapter 5 in the Pilots Operating Handbook (Performance).
: That's the official publication that you must use to meet the
: requirments for pre-flight action. Try showing a Designated Pilot
: Examiner or FAA check Airmen a spreadsheet programe on the day of your
: checkride to compute your take-off and time fuel and distance to climb,
: He'll give you the same answer as I.

: The POH is valuable, the problem is knowbody wants to use it anymore.

Frode's airplane is old enough that he does not have a POH per se.
He has a document that describes the airplane, similar to an "AFM".
It has little info about TO distance, landing distance, or other info
as you're used to seeing in a modern POH.
--
Aaron C.