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Greg Farris · March 30th 06, 06:08 PM posted to rec.aviation.owning,rec.aviation.piloting

In article ,
says...

He got airborne too early, but with plenty of potential ground-effect
acceleration space/time. Between the partial stall with resulting wing drop,
and perhaps seeing the people ducking for cover, he tried to suck it up and
over. Without ground effect to accelerate, he got irrecoverably behind the
power curve.

-Cory

Maybe - but I generally consider that there's not *that* much ground effect
to worry about in these high-wing Cessnas. He got pretty high for that.

Sure doesn't look like fun.

In article ,
VE says...

Don't see how he could have done that. Have you *ever* tried to take off with
the throttle(s) / prop(s) / mixture(s) not pushed full forward? Particularly
on a maximum effort takeoff? (Maybe holding back a little bit on a
turbocharged engine with the throttle as redline dictates).

I agree - it sure seems intuitive to push everything to the firewall in such
a case - but then it seems intuitive as well to remove gust locks, yet some
pilots manage . . .

GF