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Aircraft Speed: ~90kias
Flight Rules: VFR, without flight following
Way op north, way op high, visiting known places.
We'll be doing another early morning VFR group flight this Saturday 11/14. This time we'll visit two airfields where we have been before. It won't be boring though! We will depart from a towered airfield again and land at an untowered field where we departed from on an earlier edition. The route is promising to be pretty spectacular though.
Start your sim of choice, load up at a vacant ramp location at Regal Air in Everett on the Paine Field (KPAE) and log into the Pilotedge network to join. They are located on the central ramp along taxiway D. The briefing starts at 8:00am PST on 122.75. After everyone is informed and ready the Pilotedge service should have been opened and we will advise when we switch to the ground frequency for departure.
We'll be leaving northbound towards Arlinton. From there we proceed inland eastbound for a touch-and-go in Darlington (1S2).
After departing there we follow the valleys while terrain gets higher and higher. The moment just before you're affraid of picking up icing or the absence of oxygen we start to descend again for a full stop landing in Twisp (2S0).
This is a pretty basic procedure flight with great views. It is suitable for beginners however because it includes a departure from a class D airport, I highly recommend you to achieve at least the CAT-ratings up to the CAT-4 if you'd like to join. Preferably fly an aircraft that is easily able to maintain a cruise speed of around 90 kts.