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Old Mar 7, 2015 | 9:06 am
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Originally Posted by 1111
Are you saying that MLW does not decrease with elevation? Do you have a reference for that?
I think he over-simplified a bit and was trying to argue that, absent a contaminated runway (e.g. ice), landing distance required at the destination is rarely the limiting factor.
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