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JVanLaak(at)aol.com
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Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 5:54 pm Post subject: Denver to Eugene

Listers,

  

 I will be taking the family on our first trip through the Northwest by  light plane and would appreciate your wisdom on the route and maybe a place or  two to stop.  Although I have a lovely RV-6 this trip needs three seats and  is in a Comanche 250.

  

 We are actually starting out in Hampton VA, but the flight across the  plains is a no brainer.  What concerns me is leaving out of Boulder, CO and  landing at Eugene, OR.  We can make about 150 knots and should be able to  handle the altitude without trouble, but I do worry about winds and other  mountain hazards.  Your advice about routes to stay near the main highways,  good gas stops, and any other wisdom is appreciated.  I am an Air Force  trained jet jocky but am very respectful of the hazards of being down among 'em  and know enough to ask for advice.

  

 Thanks in advance and please reply off list.

  

 Do not archive.

  

 Jim Van Laak

 RV-6 N79RL 



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Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 7:24 pm Post subject: Denver to Eugene

Jim,

My wife and I took our elderly Bonanza to Oregon/Washington from Ft. Collins, CO two years ago. I planned the heck out of the trip and talked to folks who had lots of experience over that route in light aircraft. We headed NNW out of Ft. Collins and intercepted Interstate 90 up in Wyoming and followed it all the way to Washington. Sorry I don't have a chart with me, so cannot tell you exactly where. We were blessed with excellent weather both ways. I am a very experienced IFR pilot, but would have been very reluctant to go IFR on some of the route due to high MEA/MOCA. I was able to get radar flight following almost all of the way at altitudes of 8500 to 10,500. We did carry and use supplemental oxygen for the higher altitudes.  I cannot remember the order of the places we stopped for fuel without a map, but I know that on the outbound and the inbound trips we stopped at Butte, Bozeman, and another one or two that I cannot remember right now. As I recall, the highest pass on I-90 is around 7000 feet. Get some mountain flying instruction if you can. If not, get a good book on the subject and remain cautious, as you seem to be. It was the trip of a lifetime for my wife and I. Two weeks of wondering around the Pacific NW with no particular schedule. 

Have fun!



David Maib

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On Jun 11, 2007, at 8:54 PM, JVanLaak(at)aol.com (JVanLaak(at)aol.com) wrote:

[quote]  Listers,

  

 I will be taking the family on our first trip through the Northwest by light plane and would appreciate your wisdom on the route and maybe a place or two to stop.  Although I have a lovely RV-6 this trip needs three seats and is in a Comanche 250.

  

 We are actually starting out in Hampton VA, but the flight across the plains is a no brainer.  What concerns me is leaving out of Boulder, CO and landing at Eugene, OR.  We can make about 150 knots and should be able to handle the altitude without trouble, but I do worry about winds and other mountain hazards.  Your advice about routes to stay near the main highways, good gas stops, and any other wisdom is appreciated.  I am an Air Force trained jet jocky but am very respectful of the hazards of being down among 'em and know enough to ask for advice.

  

 Thanks in advance and please reply off list.

  

 Do not archive.

  

 Jim Van Laak

 RV-6 N79RL 



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Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 7:54 am Post subject: Denver to Eugene

Having flown, and lived, in this area for quite some time I whole-heartly concur with David on taking I-90 across Wyoming.  But seeing as how you are going to Eugene there is an alternative.  From western Wyoming you can intercept I-84 in eastern Idaho and basically follow it all the way through the Columbia Gorge to Portland, then hang a left down the valley to Eugene.  If the weather is exceptional you could cut straight across from Baker City in Eastern Oregon to Bend, OR, then a very quick hope across the Cascades to Eugene.  Eastern Oregon is somewhat sparely populated but there are several available stops for fuel between Baker City and Bend.

  

 Mike Robertson

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Subject: Re: Denver to Eugene

Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:24:04 -0500

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Jim, 

 My wife and I took our elderly Bonanza to Oregon/Washington from Ft. Collins, CO two years ago. I planned the heck out of the trip and talked to folks who had lots of experience over that route in light aircraft. We headed NNW out of Ft. Collins and intercepted Interstate 90 up in Wyoming and followed it all the way to Washington. Sorry I don't have a chart with me, so cannot tell you exactly where. We were blessed with excellent weather both ways. I am a very experienced IFR pilot, but would have been very reluctant to go IFR on some of the route due to high MEA/MOCA. I was able to get radar flight following almost all of the way at altitudes of 8500 to 10,500. We did carry and use supplemental oxygen for the higher altitudes.  I cannot remember the order of the places we stopped for fuel without a map, but I know that on the outbound and the inbound trips we stopped at Butte, Bozeman, and another one or two that I cannot remember right now. As I recall, the highest pass on I-90 is around 7000 feet. Get some mountain flying instruction if you can. If not, get a good book on the subject and remain cautious, as you seem to be. It was the trip of a lifetime for my wife and I. Two weeks of wondering around the Pacific NW with no particular schedule. 

 Have fun!

 

 David Maib

 RV-10 40559

 Wings

 

  On Jun 11, 2007, at 8:54 PM, JVanLaak(at)aol.com (JVanLaak(at)aol.com) wrote:

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		   Listers,

  

 I will be taking the family on our first trip through the Northwest by light plane and would appreciate your wisdom on the route and maybe a place or two to stop.  Although I have a lovely RV-6 this trip needs three seats and is in a Comanche 250.

  

 We are actually starting out in Hampton VA, but the flight across the plains is a no brainer.  What concerns me is leaving out of Boulder, CO and landing at Eugene, OR.  We can make about 150 knots and should be able to handle the altitude without trouble, but I do worry about winds and other mountain hazards.  Your advice about routes to stay near the main highways, good gas stops, and any other wisdom is appreciated.  I am an Air Force trained jet jocky but am very respectful of the hazards of being down among 'em and know enough to ask for advice.

  

 Thanks in advance and please reply off list.

  

 Do not archive.

  

 Jim Van Laak

 RV-6 N79RL 



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