Hey Bill,

I'm planning to head out in my 68 Cherokee 180 the first week of September
with my 20 yr old son to visit my brother in Boulder, CO. I'm a flatlander
(Atlanta, Georgia area) and though I have no plans to do any mountain flying
and wouldn't without instruction, I'm flying towards the mountains. That's
enough to get me looking for some good advice/pointers. An old pilot friend
of mine said carry more speed on final than usual, that sort of thing.
We'll be loaded lightly.

Give me some good pointers if you will.

Please DO NOT carry extra speed on final. An aircraft flys on
INDICATED AIRSPEED! Please fly the book speeds. Yes, they really
work! Now, if there are winds, I can recommend adding to that speed
"1/2 the wind speed and all the gust speed, to a limit of 15 MPH
more than the normal approach speed".

Your GROUND speed will be greater than down at your home altitude,
but your airspeed will be correct.

There are many more myths about high density altitude and mountain
flying dispelled in the Colorado Pilots Associations Mountain Flying
and High Elevation Ground School:
http://www.coloradopilots.org/
see Mountain Flying in the left margin.
Please join us some time.

Best regards,

Jer/ "Flight instruction and mountain flying are my vocations!"
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Jer/ (Slash) Eberhard, Mountain Flying Aviation, LTD, Ft Collins, CO
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