On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 20:13:44 +0100, Chris Newport
wrote:

joe_323 wrote:
As both a sailing and a flying instructor I deal with these issues
quite a bit. You don't want people doing stupid macho stunts and
killing themselves, but there is also such a thing as being too
chicken. Beyond a certain limit you have to wonder at a person's basic
ability. A pilot with little short field experience passing up a 1200
foot strip is a smart pilot. If he is unsure of getting a Skyhawk into
a 2500 fot strip then I would wonder if he had the required aircraft
control skills to be flying AT ALL.

How hot, how high, how heavy ?.
Getting in should be OK, but getting back out again could be problem.
BTDTGTsoiled underwear.
I used to *hate* doing rental checkouts for our Mooney out of our 2300
foot strip with the proverbial 50 foot trees at each end. There was
about a 2 knot spread between stalling into the near trees or floating
into the far trees. OTOH after my students soloed there I never
worried about them going to other airports