Taking off at NTTR

[cthulhu68]

After nearly running out of runway on my 1st few attempts , and noticing a sluggish feeling, i'm asking myself...

Are the runways shorter here?

Has the high altitude/thin air thing been factored in, and if so is there any hard and fast rules on max loadout ?

Am I just getting slower in my old age?

 

EDITThe A-10A and SU-25T , both loaded to the gills (96%-97%), were the only 2 ive flown here so far.

Edited August 29, 2016 by cthulhu68

[razo+r]

What plane and what loadout did you carry?

[Buzzles]

Has the high altitude/thin air thing been factored in, and if so is there any hard and fast rules on max loadout ?

 

Yes. Atmospheric density is factored into DCS. So is temperature.

 

NTTR runways as a whole are quite a fair bit higher than MSL.

 

As for factoring it in for take off weights, that's down to reading the manuals supplied with the modules. Most of them do tell you what you need to do.

[cthulhu68]

OK. Thanks.

I'd also like to pointout , for those that don't think about these things beforehand like me, that if theres a storm the cloud base is now at about eye level.

[Rakuzard]

As for the cloudbase, in the ME you set the clouds altitude above MSL. Nellis already has an elevation of about 561m (1841ft) and most parts around Las Vegas are even higher. So you just have to shift your clouds up :)