[Porsche-O-Phile]

I question the takeoff technique a little - it seems like the plane just didn't want to accelerate past a certain point and yet there seemed to be very little or no effort on the part of the PF to get weight off the wheels and take advantage of ground effect to the extent possible. It did kind of happen at the end but still... It looks like the situation might've benefitted a bit from a touch more backpressure (obviously the last thing you want to do is jerk the thing into the air and have it pancake back down)

I've done a lot of flying into Big Bear & Mammoth - both are pretty high altitude. There are always people in the warmer months that try it and it never ends well. A couple of guys each year end up dunking perfectly good airplanes into the drink west of Big Bear. Fortunately at KMMH the terrain falls away (hopefully faster than the aircraft sinks!) to the east, which is typically the way people depart.