Alphabet Challenge Leg 29 K2O7 - K3L2
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 5:24 pm
Pilots,
Ok this flight was downright exciting!
http://peaware.pilotedge.net/flight.cfm?id=88555
Situation:
You find yourself in a desert mountain valley. What's the best way to get out? I ALWAYS love it when the obstacle clearance number for the grid I'm in is ELEVEN THOUSAND feet higher than I am standing at when I climb into the plane! And the destination, Sky Ranch, looks like a really neat little housing area built around an airport. I always wanted to live in a place like this -- but up on a cliff overlooking a Lake, not endless sand. There's a place like this called Lakeway in Central Texas...
You'll have to consider your climb performance, the winds, density altitude all that good stuff. Do you go back north and out the way you came in or down south and navigate the pass out?
Lessons Learned:
Near Death in Death Valley: Ok, so it's almost a bit, shall I say annoying, how often I get dual engine failures in the ole King Air. I happened to leave Otto in charge for 3-4 minutes while I stepped out to take care of "an issue". I returned to alarms blaring, engines out, 30 degree left angle of bank turn, and a real close look at the goats up on the hills around Schwaub Peak... Recovered. Reset failures in XP. Got another dual failure 2 min later. Reset...no idea. Motored on.
McFly: Just an FYI but in the picture above, back in the 80's (O26) used to be "Twin Pines," before some kid in a Delorean ran over one of them.
Ok this flight was downright exciting!
http://peaware.pilotedge.net/flight.cfm?id=88555
Situation:
You find yourself in a desert mountain valley. What's the best way to get out? I ALWAYS love it when the obstacle clearance number for the grid I'm in is ELEVEN THOUSAND feet higher than I am standing at when I climb into the plane! And the destination, Sky Ranch, looks like a really neat little housing area built around an airport. I always wanted to live in a place like this -- but up on a cliff overlooking a Lake, not endless sand. There's a place like this called Lakeway in Central Texas...
You'll have to consider your climb performance, the winds, density altitude all that good stuff. Do you go back north and out the way you came in or down south and navigate the pass out?
Lessons Learned:
Near Death in Death Valley: Ok, so it's almost a bit, shall I say annoying, how often I get dual engine failures in the ole King Air. I happened to leave Otto in charge for 3-4 minutes while I stepped out to take care of "an issue". I returned to alarms blaring, engines out, 30 degree left angle of bank turn, and a real close look at the goats up on the hills around Schwaub Peak... Recovered. Reset failures in XP. Got another dual failure 2 min later. Reset...no idea. Motored on.
McFly: Just an FYI but in the picture above, back in the 80's (O26) used to be "Twin Pines," before some kid in a Delorean ran over one of them.