Plane down on Vail Pass

"Morgans" wrote in message
...

"Mike Rapoport" wrote

Since you totally missed his point, perhaps you do need to take some
instruction.

What point was it that I missed? Are you telling me that mountain wave
activity is not present early in the morning?
--
Jim in NC



No, it can be present anytime. However the time-of-day issues that Newps
brought up are more relevent 99% of the time. While it is possible for an
airplane to crash into a ridge while flying upwind because of a wave, I
don't think that I have ever heard of it happening. By the time mountain
waves are a real issue the wind is usually screaming. Perhaps we could add
"don't fly if the ridgetop winds are over XXkts to Newps' advice to fly in
the mountains. What Newps said is what 99% of mountain flying instructore
would have said.

Mike
MU-2