x/c options Tucson to El Paso

Okay, I think I've got most of it figured out:

S: El Tiro --.-
1 Brave Bull 29.7
2 Cascabel 33.5
3 Willcox 28.4
4 Bowie 25.0
5 San Simon 14.4
6 Steins 14.9
7 Lordsburg 19.1
8 Deming 56.4 *** help!
9 Solo Ranch 18.5
10 Las Cruces 28.2
11 Cielo Dorado 31.0
F: West Tx Apt 27.0

Casey does the first half look like what you described?

The part I'm looking for more help on is Lordsburg to Deming. Looking
at the maps, I can find nothing; no airfields, farms or strips of any
kind. Just 56+ miles of glider repellant.

-Bartman

(bart w) wrote in message . com...
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.

Any help from someone with experience along that route would be most
appreciated.

-Bartman

That is pretty much it. There are fields and some duster stips around San
Simon but Steins is not landable....it's just a truck stop in the hills
between San Simon and Lordsburg. There is a large dry lakebed just east of
Steins but should you land there you'll have to figure out how to get the
glider out since there are railroad tracks to the north with no apparent
crossing for a long way. There are most likely dirt roads leading in from
the north but I have no knowledge of those. Lordsburg is just a bit farther
east. There usually is a smaller but landable area of that lakebed on the
south side of the interstate and tracks. I have not been down that way this
season so don't have current info.

As I have said, past Deming you are on your own other than that advice added
above. My guess is that arriving there in the good part of the day you
should be able to easily get very high and be able to make Las Cruces since
that airport is on the east side of the town.

Have fun and best of luck,
Casey

(bart w) wrote in message . com...
Okay, I think I've got most of it figured out:

S: El Tiro --.-
1 Brave Bull 29.7
2 Cascabel 33.5
3 Willcox 28.4
4 Bowie 25.0
5 San Simon 14.4
6 Steins 14.9
7 Lordsburg 19.1
8 Deming 56.4 *** help!
9 Solo Ranch 18.5
10 Las Cruces 28.2
11 Cielo Dorado 31.0
F: West Tx Apt 27.0

Last I heard Brave Bull was under houses!

La Cholla is good but watch for the runway lights. Biospere was
landable 2 years ago but I heard reports the brush is encroaching.
Landing options are sparce in this area.

I aborted an approach to Bowie a few years ago as it looked too
narrow. Made a very late decision to go to an adjacent field. Turned
out the strip was just wide enough for 15m but it may be more
overgrown now.

Not sure about San Simon. Don't think I could find it last time I was
in the area.

Always go for fields in preference to a strip of unknown condition or
width. Many Arizona crop duster strips are too narrow to land 15m
gliders.

Andy