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My wife and I flew our rented Cessna 182 to Catalina Island on the day after Thanksgiving (2011). If the take off run seems long, it's because I flew in ground-effect until I reached 75 knots indicated air speed.
The runway on Catalina is rather bumpy, and I wanted to get the nose off the ground as soon as possble in order to reduce the possibility of a prop.-strike.
The flight from our home airport in Riverside, CA only took 35 minutes. yet it felt as though we were off to visit an exotic, far-away place.
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