BrianR
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I'll be spending a week in Tucson in mid March for a work-related meeting. Since I'll have some free time, it occurred to me it might be fun to find a CFI and a rental 172 or the like and obtain a bit of mountain-flying instruction. I'm not talking about a full-fledged course, as I won't have the time for that, but more like a half-day, give or take. Having been in southern AZ once previously, it seems an ideal location for such training...or maybe not, as I seem to recall getting bounced around pretty good in an MD80 approaching TUS from the east!
Since I live in the northeast, and have no plans to do any hard-core mountain flying in the immediate future, it would be mostly just to expand my knowledge and experience a bit. As a fairly new private pilot, the closest thing to "mountains" I've flown over are some of the Catskills.
Google doesn't yield much. I'm pretty sure I've read somewhere about someone offering such instruction in the Tucson area...but I have no idea when or where I saw it. Any recommendations from the gallery?
Since I live in the northeast, and have no plans to do any hard-core mountain flying in the immediate future, it would be mostly just to expand my knowledge and experience a bit. As a fairly new private pilot, the closest thing to "mountains" I've flown over are some of the Catskills.
Google doesn't yield much. I'm pretty sure I've read somewhere about someone offering such instruction in the Tucson area...but I have no idea when or where I saw it. Any recommendations from the gallery?
