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Here is another density altitude video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVM3RRd1vf0Comment on "Flying 14,000 feet through San Juan Mountains, Colorado"
ULtrikeoilot, thank for your nice comment on the movie. I don't think yu have any issue to take from Mineral Counrty Airport. Especially, the air temp is lower than 50 degree in early summer morning, which makes density altitude lower.Comment on "Your Engine Just Quit, Should You Land On A Road Or A Field?"
...e and altituide. The lower your altitude the risk goes way up and cho...idges,fog ,traffic,populace, air density desert rocky dirt and paved r...s by concidering the terrain and density before you fly. It will lesson...to do i think.If iam flying with altitude i keep a updating reference a...Comment on "white eagles first engine out in soaring trike at elk river fly in"
...might not be "here" typing this now. It was at high density altitude (and I could use some Lipo my...taxied to full length for takeoff, but was not where I wanted to be altitude-wise at 1/2 field (short fiel...Comment on "XC and Ken's flight into the owens valley (Sierras) and special treat if weather permits on sat"
...ound 10K' but hadn't started by 12K (density alt), so I switched it to man...Ken was following me at a slightly lower altitude and talking to me on the rad...the aircraft performance every 1000' of density altitude. Now we have a chart of...Comment on "Your altimeter displays one altitude while your GPS displays another. Under VFR, which do you use/when?"
Most of my handheld gps seem to wander a...o be correct but the actual reported altitude seems to be within 20' or so of what I believe the actual altitude is at that spot based on info...So im not so much worried about what altitude someone else might be flying...