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Old 11-03-2014, 08:42 PM
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I have flown my -6 out of my 1500' runway here in Texas for about 20 years.
Many of my friends are not comfortable flying in here. And that's fine.
When you add in hi temps, density altitude, and other factors, my biggest concern is a direct crosswind.
I have flown into shorter runways, but considering all factors, I would not be comfortable with anything much shorter than 1500' for continued operations.
RV-9 and -12 could get by with less, but not much.
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Old 11-03-2014, 09:15 PM
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I'd be comfortable with 1000' unobstructed for takeoff but for landing, I'd want double that.
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Old 11-04-2014, 03:00 AM
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AJ - that's is an EYEs WIDE video!

I'm with Mel and I'm on 1900'.

Turbo - I want that new single seater you have !
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Old 11-04-2014, 05:48 AM
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For me, 1400 ft with 75 ft trees both ends in RV6a. The problem is that you don't have any margins for mistakes, temp, DA, and so forth. Also, you have to nail it every time and the carrier landing can be hard on the nose gear models. Taking off you have to keep the nose wheel light so there are a lot of things to consider when flying into and out of a marginal length field. Here is a video of RV-6a taking off and then landing on my field.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eJP674OiJQ0

By the way, I don't recommend you doing this right after transition training. It took me a solid month of daily doing spot landings at 5000ft paved strip before I had the confidence and fortitude to do the stol with repeatability.

My advise is to take the advise of the well respected posters above. They know what they are talking about.
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Old 11-04-2014, 08:54 AM
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My home strip for the 172 is 2500' with power lines across the threshold on both ends, leaving about 2000' useful - and that's about as tight as I want for regular operations. With the increased performance of a 9A over the 172 I'm sure I'll be happy with that distance once I have gotten some good transition training.
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Old 11-04-2014, 10:05 AM
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Thanks for all of the responses. So is the 500 foot landing roll listed on Van's website wishful thinking, or is that about right? Also, all of my flight test hours will be at a paved strip, so I would have time to practice. I'm thinking long term for building the strip. I just want to know if it's worth the investment of building it.
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Thanks for all of the responses. So is the 500 foot landing roll listed on Van's website wishful thinking, or is that about right? Also, all of my flight test hours will be at a paved strip, so I would have time to practice. I'm thinking long term for building the strip. I just want to know if it's worth the investment of building it.
The 500' landing roll is dragging it in under power and plunking it down under ideal conditions. Not your normal every day landing.
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Old 11-04-2014, 10:45 AM
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Thanks for all of the responses. So is the 500 foot landing roll listed on Van's website wishful thinking, or is that about right?
Not wishful thinking if you're on a surface with good braking traction and touch down at min. speed. But there's a big difference between a 500' rollout and landing on 500' of usable runway. Doesn't matter if you can rollout in 500' if you float for 1000' and then bounce a couple times before getting stable on the ground for hard braking.
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Old 11-04-2014, 10:45 AM
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You guys can have it! I come home to a lit, well paved, 6500x150 runway and a control tower.

1900x40 is my record with big power lines on one end, and water off both ends. Airplane did it no problem but dealing with that every day would get really old.
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Old 11-04-2014, 12:10 PM
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You guys can have it! I come home to a lit, well paved, 6500x150 runway and a control tower.

1900x40 is my record with big power lines on one end, and water off both ends. Airplane did it no problem but dealing with that every day would get really old.
I'm with you...my idea of fun is to land at my training airport's 2887 ft. runway on the numbers, then slow to make the taxiway at the midpoint easily, with almost half the runway remaining. It's a very easy, unobstructed approach, though.
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