Spreadsheet for takeoff/landing distance calculation?

Hi!

I fly a Piper Arrow 180 hp from 1968

Anyone have a spreadsheet or programme to calculate takeoff and landing
distance letting you input weights, pressure alt, temperature?

Frode

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.

Chad

Of course the POH is probably printed on paper and continual use tends
to wear it out. Taking the information from that page however and
building a spreadsheet (correctly) will yield the same information. Of
course the spreadsheet algorithms will have to be validated across the
range of acceptable input values by comparing it to the POH, but it is
still a one-time task.

I know this doesn't answer the original question, but the correct answer
isn't always USE the POH; it is REFER to the POH. You can do that by
having a validated spreadsheet.


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Subject: Spreadsheet for takeoff/landing distance calculation?

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.

Chad

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.
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Aaron C.