Sat Oct 20, 2018 1:56 pm
#1646051
Our runway is over 10,000ft, but some do use flaps in my PA28-181 for take off.
I assume due to the problem they may have if flying out of somewhere shorter and simply forget.
I use the same philosophy when it comes to landings - always on the numbers or the aiming point, although here it means a mile and a half taxi after landing.
We do not really have too many short fields in the region - Monseratt's new, post volcano, runway is 1,800ft - not exactly short and Saba is about 1,300ft.
We seem spoilt by our long runway - other weird thing here, people enter at the Kilo taxiway, then back track about 200ft, flaps for short field and then away they trundle with 5,00 ft of runway in front of them - the flap thing I get, but the 200ft back taxi has me confused.