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Jordan wrote in message . ..
That's quite the trip. When I went down to Texas for my 300m, (more like 1900nm but who's counting we planned the bare minimum. Because there were several ways to cross the rocks depending how the weather worked out we planned 4 dif routes for day 1 (VIA the Banff VFR route, Crowsnest Pass Route, Down by Spokane or just go as far South as possible before crossing. After we realised how many possibilities there would be depending on the weather we started planning by the day. Get up, get the Wx, decide where to go. The amount of wind varies greatly on the prairies too and sometimes we'd get 500nm on a tank (C172) w/ reserves, sometimes much less and this affected our fuel stops. Buying the VNC's for your whole route will be quite expensive also, that's alot of charts! Also, don't have any Canadian WAC's to help ya sorry. You'll want the VNCs at least for the mountains. WACs just don't have enough detail for squirting through tight spots. I'd recommend the VFR routes through Banff, Jasper or the Crowsnest, as there are more strips available if the weather changes suddenly, which it can do real quick. The Jasper route is lower and somewhat wider, but a bit out of the way. Dan |
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