Dan Luke wrote:
It was the second flight of the day for the conservation organization I do
volunteer flying for. The local Baton Rouge guy bird-dogging illegal Cypress
logging had me set up to take him, a reporter and a cameraman from the Fox TV
station up to video the bad guys at work.

4R is the shortest runway at BTR, but it's closest to the FBO, so I begged for
it and got it.

Was it very hot also? I'm asking due to the fact that it took 3800' of
runway to accelerate to 75 and stop. That is a long way in a Skylane.

It is great that all turned out well and probably better than you
weren't able to rotate enough to lift-off. That may have been even
worse with that guy that close to the controls.

So, how did the flight go once you got off the ground on the next
attempt? :-)

Matt