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Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.
Exciting takeoff...
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Looking at the runway length and altitude it doesn't seem as if it should have been that dramatic.
He mentions that due to the local terrain the great headwind he had at the start of the roll suddenly became a crosswind and instantly lost that airspeed.
I still question whether he learned the right lessons though.
He is clearly nervous before the takeoff roll and uses full flaps for the takeoff, to me this throws out his statement that this was by the book.
His takeaway is also that leaving the gear down is proper technique in this situation
It seems to me perhaps in his anxiety about the takeoff he rotates as soon as he gets the normal airspeed indication rather than making use of the runway he had to work with.
Five more knots before rotation would have made a huge difference here.
Once he did get himself in trouble he certainly did a fine job of dealing with the situation though.
He mentions that due to the local terrain the great headwind he had at the start of the roll suddenly became a crosswind and instantly lost that airspeed.
I still question whether he learned the right lessons though.
He is clearly nervous before the takeoff roll and uses full flaps for the takeoff, to me this throws out his statement that this was by the book.
His takeaway is also that leaving the gear down is proper technique in this situation
It seems to me perhaps in his anxiety about the takeoff he rotates as soon as he gets the normal airspeed indication rather than making use of the runway he had to work with.
Five more knots before rotation would have made a huge difference here.
Once he did get himself in trouble he certainly did a fine job of dealing with the situation though.
Part of the reason the FSX experience isn't as dramatic, apart from the obvious ones, is that in FSX, the terrain drops away from the runway, and there are no big trees in the way. This is interesting because excessive giant trees at the end of runways is a well known "issue" of FSX. So much so that people have created add-ons that remove them! So here we see an example where FSX didn't place enough huge trees at the end of this runway! Or maybe we can blame this one on ORBX... 
Panther_99FS
Retired SOH Administrator
Well, I tried to... FSX's "advanced user defined weather" thing is confusing. It has separate controls for "temperature" and "altitude", and adjusting one does not affect the other, which makes no sense. So I tried both, one at a time, and together, with similar, inconclusive, results. Basically what it comes down to is FSX, as a true simulator, has limitations... The "physics engine" is really more game than simulator, when it comes to duplicating this sort of scenario. I tried many takeoff runs, with different weights and temps, and never had a problem getting out of that airport. I think I'm going to write a letter to Beechcraft and tell them they got their flight model WRONG..!
