I must admit that flight simming and the MSFS in particular helped me TREMENDOUSLY to overcome my depressions and sometimes mental instability; especially sceneries like this one by Milo Taylor. Since FSX in 2006 Idaho has become one of my most favourite flight sim areas. I'm looking forward to seeing this new release, and the trailer of it looks AWESOME 👍👍👍. Keep up your artistic work, Mr. Taylor. All the very best for you and your family. Greetings, Alex from Germany
I don't know... I think it's the Dewey Moore runway that's only 700 feet long. I don't know what the altitude of that runway is, (or for that matter, the other two), but it wouldn't surprise me if any of them are over 7000 feet. If they're between 6K and 7K MSL, and you land on one on a cool, early morning (with say, a loaded C172 or C180), you're probably going to be stuck there all day. Or at least until the air cools back down again to a density that help can generate enough lift for a controllable take off! Then again, I'm guessing at all the little variables involved. I'd have to watch the video again because now that I think of it, I didn't see any small Cessna's. I saw numerous J3's and a few Kitfox's and I guess they could handle the thin air from warming afternoon temps... (I guess). A kitfox with 2 people & some gear aboard, taking off from a high altitude airfield in 80 degree Fahrenheit temperatures, is probably doable for them. They don't need the T/O speed that a 3-passenger + 1-Pilot, C180 would. Still, I know of at least one crash in the Nevada mountains, (all 4 people survived), that was due to an oversight by the pilot. He landed on a high altitude open field, (maybe 6000 feet MSL) just after daybreak that morning. They were in a C172 or C180 (can't recall right now). But late in the day, about 3:30 or 4PM, they decided to leave. The runway was really just a short, cleared, stretch of prairie grass but he said he landed just fine with room to spare. So, he figured it was enough to easily reach T/O speed... But the air wasn't nearly as dense when he tried to take off as it was when he landed earlier that morning. The Cessna got up to and past the "usual takeoff speed" for the altitude but the air density was to thin. He didn't have enough field left to abort the T/O and the heavy brush line was coming at him fast. He yanked the yoke back and the plane stalled 20 feet up. They were all lucky because the brush kind of cushioned the plane as it dropped on a dipped wing and tail down attitude. Pilot error: Due to miscalculation of required T/O speed for that time & temperature of the day for that airfield altitude. FWIW
