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Re: Why high temperatures can make planes too heavy to take off

By: oldCADuser in FFT4 | Recommend this post (0)
Sat, 22 Jul 23 8:53 PM | 22 view(s)
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I once experienced that many years ago when I was flying from Orange County to St Louis. This was on Ozark Airlines (another name that's been gone a long time). Anyway, we had to change planes in Denver as this was when the Orange County airport was still restricted and the longest flights allowed were to places like Denver and Phoenix.

It was about this time of year and it was very hot, close to 100˚. We were on an older DC-9 and the flight was full. It was the longest roll-out that I ever recall experiencing. I swear, all the pilot did was retract the landing gear when we got to the end of the runway. It took at least 15 or 20 minutes before we reached anything that you could describe as normal cruising speed. The good news was that we were heading East and the ground was falling away from us but I suspect that we were well over Kansas before we reached anything close to a cruising altitude.




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Why high temperatures can make planes too heavy to take off
By: zzstar in FFT4
Sat, 22 Jul 23 8:35 PM 		Msg. 08289 of 16968

http://www.cnn.com/travel/article/climate-change-airplane-takeoff-scn/index.html

I remember telling my wife right as we took off from Kennedy earlier this month, on an Airbus A320, that “he used all the runway”, as I noticed that we took off and we were right over the marshes around the east side of the airport. I now connect the dots as to why they were giving people $600 to not be on that flight. No wonder they also had to refuel at Miami International after being diverted there because of bad weather at Fort Lauderdale in order to fly the 10 miles or so back there when the weather cleared. They had taken less fuel on to begin when I guess no one gave up their seats. The plane was packed full.

I knew something was at work when I heard “we will refuel”, to go ….ten miles. That was close.

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