Real world flying, tires have speed limits, extra speed
burns the tires up and the stop gets very expensive.



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| Mxsmanic wrote:
| Is there any harm in taking off at a relatively high
speed and very
| gently? There seems to be plenty of runway in most
cases for small
| aircraft. If I leave the ground at 120 kts instead of
the normal
| rotation speed, I find that I can lift off ever so
gently. Plus I
| have lots of airspeed if something goes wrong during my
gentle climb.
| Are there drawbacks to this that I'm missing?
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| All these past takeoffs wasted... Never again! From now
on, I'm doing
| high speed "gentle" takeoffs.
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