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This video has certainly gone viral .... It should have been obvious to any pilot that if your lightie needs more runway than a 747 on a hot day it's time to shut the throttle . What a ridiculous display of irresponsible piloting .

 

Dave C

 

 

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I like the excuse. Sounds like the pilot told the non flier that one.

 

I have seen that 25 seconds seems to be about the norm for a take off.

 

Time them yourself. Jet or Cessna... they seem to be around the twenty five seconds.

 

 

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Required viewing for all student pilots?

 

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This video has certainly gone viral .... It should have been obvious to any pilot that if your lightie needs more runway than a 747 on a hot day it's time to shut the throttle . What a ridiculous display of irresponsible piloting .Dave C

I seem to recall seeing this footage somewhat earlier, but that's by the by.

I'm only on the outside looking in (ie a non-pilot) but am I interpreting incorrectly somewhere?

 

It looks to me as though they're well & truly airborne, but for some reason the pilot either cannot, or chooses not to, ascend to a safe altitude.

 

And they were all very very lucky.

 

 

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Accident occurred on June 30 this year. Here is the link to a report on aviation-safety.net:

 

http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=146586

 

And the NTSB notification :

 

http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20120701X65804&key=1

 

(If this link is broken, copy above line into browser address bar).

 

Note: "The certified commercial pilot ...".

 

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Rough calculation shows density alt would have been over 9000', looking on google and estimating the lift off point from the video (which is hard to tell) looks like they took nearly 1km to lift off... or lifted off and touched down again for a bit .............. no flaps set either?

 

 

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