There are as many dead pilots from hitting steeply rising
terrain from Georgia to Maine as die west of Denver. There
are also a lot of flat landers who die in Arkansas. It
isn't the altitude, it is the suddenness of the mountain and
whether the pilot is really thinking about it being a hump,
ridge, hill or mountain?

If you hit a granite rock at 3,000 feet MSL or at 14,000
feet you'll still be in a lot of trouble.


"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
ups.com...
| The subject line made me laugh. I'm from out West. When I
took my kids
| to Mt Vernon, they asked me "Dad, why do they call it
'Mt'?". "See
| that little hill over there?...". We often top moutains
over 14,000.
| -Robert
|