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Density altitude

Change elevation, pressure and temperature and see what happens to your take-off.

15 mRunway 600 mGround roll 280 m15 m after 440 m

You clear the trees: at the end of the runway you are 29 m up, 14 m above them.

You clear the trees.

Heights are drawn larger than distances. The example aircraft follows a rule-of-thumb model at maximum mass, on a dry, level, hard runway without wind: for learning, not for flying.

-4,00004,0008,00012,00016,000Field0 ftPressure altitude0 ftDensity altitude0 ft
0 ft
1013 hPa
15 °C

Calculation

Pressure altitude
0 ft
ISA temperature there
15 °C
Deviation
Same as ISA
Density altitude
0 ft

Example aircraft

Air density
100% of ISA at sea level
Ground roll
280 m
To 15 m height
440 m
Climb
700 ft/min · 9.2 %

In the tasks you first work out the density altitude. Then you see whether the example aircraft clears the trees.

Lessons with this instrument