Summer Colorado Days

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Kilstorm
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Summer Colorado Days

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After spending many hours during the winter flying the Twin Otter Extended between the high altitude airports of Denver, Vail, Aspen and Telluride, I am certainly noticing a performance difference in the hot summer days. I was at 10,000 feet and still in 80 degree OAT and on a slow 200fpm climb out with so many box canyons to avoid. I was keeping the engines in the yellow on temp yesterday when I got an engine fire 20 miles out of Eagle KEGE and performed a single engine landing. Flying near MTOW and hoping between these high altitude airports has me spiraling up to get over the ranges. Anyone else noticing a difference in performance with all these high temps in the SW?
Nathan Palmer
Nantucket, MA
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rtataryn
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Re: Summer Colorado Days

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Oh for sure. And with the high elevation airports like Leadville (KLXV) and Telluride (KTEX) having density altitudes over 12,000 or 13,000 ft, a lot of aircraft aren't even getting off the ground in these temperatures.
Rod
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Kilstorm
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Re: Summer Colorado Days

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Talking about Density Altitudes, Turbulent Designs announced with their next update to Big Bear and the use of SODE, they will have the Density Altitude sign working correctly which is kinda cool to have as a feature.
Nathan Palmer
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