As a pilot...now the serious stuff start.
We are leaving an airport at an elevation of 8500 feet and landing at an airport at 12500 feet about 100 nm away in the middle of the Andes.
e are paying very close attention to the briefing and we are reviewing the charts, not only on departure but also on arrival.
This is the brief:
After reviewing the checklist of high altitude operation, we are ready...It would not look good if the oxygen mask drop in front of he passenger faces.
We are leaving an airport at an elevation of 8500 feet and landing at an airport at 12500 feet about 100 nm away in the middle of the Andes.
e are paying very close attention to the briefing and we are reviewing the charts, not only on departure but also on arrival.
This is the brief:
Ok, so not too complicated, we have a SID and a STAR, we have 25 mn of flying time and we have an arrival airport elevation of 12,552 feet.
The arrival is a VOR approach and there is no radar.
The departure is interesting, we have climb on runway heading for 20 nm before turning back to the airport VOR , where we need to be at 22000 feet or above.
With 40 nm to climb 14000 feet we should be ok..A quick check to the Ipad Cessna Mustang App confirm the situation
The arrival is a perfect VOR set-up and everything is in the Garmin.
It is not often you see runway of nearly 14000 feet...only the Space shuttle in the US use this kind of runway.
For landing we will be OK but what about take-off?????
An overview of the airport confirm that the airport is downtown.
After reviewing the checklist of high altitude operation, we are ready...It would not look good if the oxygen mask drop in front of he passenger faces.
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