hey guys, just trying to find out if I can take the JS41 out of Key West, with say 20 pax and fuel to Fort Lauderdale... rwy length is 4801 ft and that number is pretty close to some figures I see while googling to find out the minimum required runway for this bird... Anyone with some experience ? I know I would have to factor in density altitude and headwind component, but just trying to find out a rough estimate on required length on a standard day with about fuel for a 1h trip. As it's a sim, I obviously could go with the "try and error" approach, but that's not very realistic is it :-) Thanks

...As it's a sim, I obviously could go with the "try and error" approach, but that's not very realistic is it :-) Thanks

Heck, some RW pilots do exactly that and with much larger aircraft!See this Ilyushin IL-76 157 ton strategic airlifter take-off exactly at the end of the runway with not a foot to spare:

Priceless ozzie tower controller chit-chat: Controller 1: The vodka-burner is rolling!Controller 2: We have Smirnoff! I understand your effort to keep simming "real", but consider sometimes in the RW flight simulators are used to test situations that are too dangerous to test in the real-world, so this might just be one of those occasions. Cheers, - jahman.

haha, great vid !!!! On a sidenote, I did try it out .... plenty of runway left so no stress :-)

Great video there, commentary is priceless!!...G

I struggle with that as well.. I like to keep it as real as I can, and I don't like to use the sim as an experimental platform when I treat it as flying for "real" if you know what I mean.. I mean if the wx is crappy I just don't fly, it makes it seem a lot more real that way.

You can do both: Just as you can pretend the sim is a RW aircraf, you can also pretend the sim is a RW simulator! The trick I find is to not mix both at one sitting. Cheers, - jahman.

I believe the FMS/C will calculate all that good stuff if you enter in the information. Off the top of my head - you should be able to get a twin turboprop off that size of runway with room to spare. I'd avoid it with a high density altitude and or very high/humid temperature, and of course a tail wind. edit: If you're talking about KEYW airport, check out flight aware - you'll see various larger aircraft have landed/departed, such as a B737, AT72, B190 (Beech 1900d)