Regardless of where you fly you'll want flaps or speed brake for drag in
the landing mode. With sufficient drag 2000 feet should be quite doable
for landing. I suspect your takeoff roll will be equal to or exceed
your landing requirement, depending on aircraft weight, obstacles,
condition
Hi Ken.
I fly a stock KR2 with Diehl wings, trigear, hydraulic Matco brakes and a
RevMaster 2100D off our 2000x80 grass strip (OR81). I use about 800 feet to
get off and about 1200 to land and roll out. We are open on one end and a
road and 2000' beyond we have trees.
I'm not saying everyone would
Ken Hurley wrote:
> On a grass runway, what length of runway is comfortable for you to
use? VW
> 1835cc 650 # airplane (without pilot and passenger). 1,200' altitude. No
> flaps or belly board (belly board can be added). SW to NE runway (N & S
> winds prevailing).
It makes me a little antsy to
Ken you really need to factor in at least a pilot (or very clever
passenger) unless you don't want the plane back. ;)
sorry
> 650 # airplane (without pilot and passenger). 1,200' altitude.
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