Preliminary planning for AK flight

wrote:
: Whoa! No holes over the mountains for me. With the pass socked in
: and Skagway reporting 1,500 ft. ceilings, I'd just overfly Skagway out
: into the channel until I found a nice sized hole over the water. Then
: just duck under and fly back. I always found one, but the backup plan

That's what I meant... the hole would have to be big enough over the water, and the
wind slow enough to know you could circle through it before the hole drifted into the side of
the channel (and into a mountain).

-Cory


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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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