wrote:
Mike Rapoport wrote:
: Keep in mind that the short field settings shorten the ground run but
: generally increase the distance to clear a 50' obstical.

Isn't that the *point* of short field technique... to get off and over in the
shortest distance? There would appear to be a logical flaw to that statement.

No, a short field is not necessarily an obstructed field. I fly my 182
into a buddies 1000 foot strip. The only obstacle is a barbed wire
fence at the ends, that's 3 feet.