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This weekend my friend and I flew to Lake Placid(LKP) for some winter fun.
This was definitely entertaining. 95% of the flight was completely smooth, but that approach and landing were a handful. Up to 5000 foot peaks around the airport, 1700ft field elevation, 4000ft runway full of ice next to the hill with 1100ft displaced threshold. Oh, and 18-27kts wind at the field level(thankfully down the runway) with 60 over the peaks at 7500. All while doing a GPS-A approach due to cloud layers around the mountains. Even turn my TKS on just in case(it was too cold for icing and only a few minutes in the clouds).
Man, it's a wild ride. Had to go around once due to being too hot and high on final, but it was a pretty good experience. Nothing like sliding sideways on ice while taxiing.
Still, I could use some mountain lessons.
p.s. I had a very good way out about 15 miles away(not in the mountains) and the airport itself was VFR.
This was definitely entertaining. 95% of the flight was completely smooth, but that approach and landing were a handful. Up to 5000 foot peaks around the airport, 1700ft field elevation, 4000ft runway full of ice next to the hill with 1100ft displaced threshold. Oh, and 18-27kts wind at the field level(thankfully down the runway) with 60 over the peaks at 7500. All while doing a GPS-A approach due to cloud layers around the mountains. Even turn my TKS on just in case(it was too cold for icing and only a few minutes in the clouds).
Man, it's a wild ride. Had to go around once due to being too hot and high on final, but it was a pretty good experience. Nothing like sliding sideways on ice while taxiing.
Still, I could use some mountain lessons.
p.s. I had a very good way out about 15 miles away(not in the mountains) and the airport itself was VFR.
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