x/c options Tucson to El Paso

"bart w" wrote in message
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I'm looking for a list of good landing sites between Tucson (El Tiro)
and El Paso (West Texas Airport, home of El Paso Soaring). By "good
landing sites" I mean regularly used airfields and known good landing
strips or fields that are easily accessible with the retrievehicle.



Look up Michael Stringfellow. Maybe he is in the book. I know he has flown
the route because I met him there at West Texas Airport after he flew from
Tucson.

If possible, try to arrange it so you are at El Paso on the second Sunday of
the month in the morning. Excellent breakfast on that day at the 99's
fly-in. I recommend the Juevos Rancheros.

Larry Pardue 2I

Not me Larry - you must be thinking of Mike Parker from Tucson - he's flown
this area a lot.

Although I am a rather reluctant cross-country flier, I have flown as far as
Lordsburg (over the Chiracuhua mountains from Bisbee - a spectacular
flight). Lordsburg has a nice airport and there are airfields and landable
terrain on the way there from Tucson. Beyond Lordsburg, the next real
airfield is, I believe, Deming.

I have driven the route several times and you do start getting more
agriculture as you get closer to El Paso, so the route is probably
reasonably safe.

Also check the Return to Kittihawk reports, many of them followed this
general route.

Mike Stringfellow ASW 20 WA


"Larry Pardue" wrote in message
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"bart w" wrote in message
om...
I'm looking for a list of good landing sites between Tucson (El Tiro)
and El Paso (West Texas Airport, home of El Paso Soaring). By "good
landing sites" I mean regularly used airfields and known good landing
strips or fields that are easily accessible with the retrievehicle.



Look up Michael Stringfellow. Maybe he is in the book. I know he has
flown
the route because I met him there at West Texas Airport after he flew from
Tucson.

If possible, try to arrange it so you are at El Paso on the second Sunday
of
the month in the morning. Excellent breakfast on that day at the 99's
fly-in. I recommend the Juevos Rancheros.

Larry Pardue 2I