He may have meant 3 % grade, that is 90 feet. I once landed
at a strip in Wyoming that was about 300 feet higher on the
south end than the north. It was a one-way runway. Can't
find it on the charts any more, they must have closed it.


"Mike Isaksen" wrote in message
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| "Tony Cox" wrote in message ...
| Its more than an academic question for me. My home
airport
| has a 3 degree runway, and some local airports are even
| steeper.
|
| I had to dust off my old HP calc for this and came up with
an assumed 3000
| ft runway being 157 ft higher at one end than the
other?!?. Where is this
| "home airport"?
|
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