"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
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"Jay Beckman" wrote in message
news:atxic.20424$432.1680@fed1read01...
If Denver was the target, where did he start? I live in Denver
(well, the 'burbs') and even going west, never need to go that
high for VFR.



Blanche...

They departed from/returned to KCHD: Chandler Municipal Airport in the
SE
part of the Phoenix, AZ valley.


Using 13,500 you could damn near go direct (I'd do it coming in from the
south at Walsenburg) , but probably northeast to Santa Fe, over to Las
Vegas, NM then north to Denver. Piece of cake. At 13,500 they'd have to be
on oxygen for a while.



Tom,

Funny you should mention "direct." My CFI mentioned that they were handed
lots of "Direct To's..." and he was kind of "dissapointed" that ATC didn't
make him have to work too hard at all.

As far as O2 goes, I, personally, think he pushed himself a little too hard
on the altitudes. He menitoned that when he got home, he "crashed" for 12+
hours. I made the comment that he got a pretty damn good flight physiology
lesson and that supplimental O2 would have probably been a good idea even if
they were up there for only a couple of minutes. He didn't disagree.

Jay