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    Choosing the plane for Winter mountain trips

    Is Salt Lake City a much easier comparing to Aspen? Regarding Cali resorts, yes, Mamooth Lakes and Lake Tahoe are my back up =) to keep my dream at least a little feasible=)
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    Choosing the plane for Winter mountain trips

    I never said that I want to be able to do it tomorrow:) I said that’s my ultimate goal, don’t see any problem having a long term goal:) unfortunately you didn’t answered what is MEA though(
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    Choosing the plane for Winter mountain trips

    My bad I was under the impression that 1250lb is a payload with the full tanks. With full tanks it is only 350lbs..
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    Choosing the plane for Winter mountain trips

    That’s the plan, thank you!
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    Choosing the plane for Winter mountain trips

    could you please tell me what is MEA? Can you be my mentor?:))
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    Choosing the plane for Winter mountain trips

    if I have 250 extra lbs why can’t I take off?
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    Choosing the plane for Winter mountain trips

    I was actually thinking spontaneous. To make it easy and quick without any schedules. In my head it was like: Wow there is (or was) a lot of snow in mammooth (or Utah) this week, I take Friday off, jump on the plane in the morning, arrive around noon-1pm, enjoy the ride for half of Friday and...
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    Choosing the plane for Winter mountain trips

    I was thinking around 900-1000 pounds. But that was when I asked this question a couple days ago, reading most of the comments and understanding the seriousness of the flight and amount of level necessary- who knows how much I’m going to weight in 10 years:))
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    Choosing the plane for Winter mountain trips

    Thank you guys, really appreciate the feedback. Hopefully will come back soon with questions, what first plane to buy after getting ppl;)
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    Choosing the plane for Winter mountain trips

    Thank you for your replies. The winter mountain trips is not the only reason but a big dream to be able to do it. When you guys mention, I need to have a lot of ifr experience, what are we approximately speaking in terms of hours? I just want to understand how far down the line this can...
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    Choosing the plane for Winter mountain trips

    Please let me know what is the entry level planes for this type of task, so I could take a look and understand amount of money needed. I was looking into p210n. Why won’t it handle the task? there are a lot of them around $300k. Malibu from 80s is a little more expensive but possible to buy...
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    Choosing the plane for Winter mountain trips

    Hello guys. I’ve read several threads at this forum so decided to register and ask advice for myself. That’s regarding the future plane pick. My name is Mike, I’m from Southern California. I’m only about to start my PPL, but I was thinking before the start - to identify the airplane I will aim...
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