Mxsmanic wrote:
Is there any harm in taking off at a relatively high speed and very
gently? There seems to be plenty of runway in most cases for small
aircraft. If I leave the ground at 120 kts instead of the normal
rotation speed, I find that I can lift off ever so gently. Plus I
have lots of airspeed if something goes wrong during my gentle climb.
Are there drawbacks to this that I'm missing?


Wellll....from a groundpounding skydiving perspective...

you lift *off* per normal rotation speed but stay in ground effect to
build up airspeed and then swoop up several hundred feet or so at
1000fpm (Cessna, not a Twin Otter say). 'less you're a ground loving,
dirt kissing pussy. And I'm not saying you are...but some of your posts
make me wonder if perhaps you'd be best served by Microsofts "Bus"
Simulator.

Just my 2 cents.

Richard