Angel Flight Down

On Jun 5, 2:04*am, "Jay Honeck" wrote:


A TBM-850 is a very capable turboprop aircraft, and it was being flown by a
very experienced Angel Flight (like, 57 flights) pilot. *Using the
aircraft's POH and the AWOS history, another pilot has determined that the
TBM would've needed something like 4200 feet to get airborne, given the
tailwind. *Unfortunately, Rwy 30 is only 3900 feet long.


Was that takeoff distance calculated from MTOW and air transport
safety margins? Would the plane be near MTOW with those PAX?

Cheers

No, it was using the mid weight TOW chart found in the POH, adjusted for
density altitude, rounded the wind down to a steady 20kts and totally
disregarding the 41mph gusts. It would not be beyond reason to believe that
the pilot may have attempted to rotate early, climbed into ground effect,
encountered a gust, and stalled.

If he would have used the 70% of take off speed within 50% of the runway
length rule of thumb, he would have pulled the power adjacent to the
windsock that was out his co-pilot window and pointed nearly in his
direction of travel, he drove right past it.

Jim