bad engine performance today

Blueskies wrote:
"buttman" wrote in message
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Today I was doing some touch and go's in a C152 with one of my
students to prepare for his first solo. It was a very hot day (35C),
but density altitude was only 2500 or so.



I'm surprised no one mentioned gross weight...

he didnt say mx was in it. ;~/

"buttman" wrote in message
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Today I was doing some touch and go's in a C152 with one of my
students to prepare for his first solo. It was a very hot day (35C),
but density altitude was only 2500 or so.

I noticed as we were climbing upwind, the plane was climbing very
slowly, even right at Vy. The runway is very long (11,800 ft), but
when we reached the opposite threshold, we were only about 500 AGL.
Normally at the end of the threshold we are between 900 and 1000 AGL,
and thats with switching to cruise climb after 500 AGL...

Then when we got to downwind, my student pulled the power back to 2300
RPM (cruise) and we were only able to hold about about 70 knots (90
knots is normal).
...


How did it fly later in the day after the pastic bag fell off the landing
gear?

:-)

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