How To Plan Your Arrival At An Unfamiliar Airport

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Great video! Curious how you are recording the altimeter / heading / air speed on the heads up display??

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We flew these last month. Fortunately, no smoke when we were out there!

[@fred5727]

Question: The MSA (25nm TUYUY on the RNAV (GPS -A)) is listed as 13900ft. Why and when did you start your descent to be 9000 at 10 miles. Is that an unsafe descent, given the MSA?

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Really good question Fred. MSAs provide at least 1,000 feet of obstacle protection within the 25NM radius. This particular radius includes Lone Cone, a nearly 13,000' mountain to the south (just west of Telluride). However, the terrain rapidly drops as you transition from south to north toward KAIB. As we passed the high terrain (we were west of Lone Cone), we started our descent and were several thousand feet AGL until reaching the airport.

[@fred5727]

@@Boldmethod Thank you for your reply! Follow-up question: if other than VFR OR after sunset, would you have descended as you did during the video and continued to this airport OR fly to an alternate? My focus with the question(s) is on terrain avoidance.

[@Boldmethod]

@@fred5727 We generally don't fly into mountain airports after dark for safety reasons. If we were IFR, we would have followed ATC's instructions for altitudes (they will keep you above the minimum vectoring altitude if you're off route, or keep you at/above the minimum altitudes for published routes). We would also cross-check those altitudes ATC gives us with the minimum altitudes for the routing that we're on, as well as the minimum altitude for the initial approach fix where we would start the approach. Additionally, the G1000 Nxi now has an AGL readout, so you're aware of your height above ground at all times. Putting all those things together, we can safely navigate in mountainous terrain and make sure we have obstacle clearance at all times.

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@Boldmethod When landing at a high density altitude airport (like in the video), do you recommend going full rich or just enough for maximum RPM for a naturally aspirated fixed prop aircraft like a C172?

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while you wait on their reply I would definitely not go full rich below a 3,000 ft density altitude. whatever your best power is before entering the pattern should be good.

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If you're flying into a controlled field you're unfamiliar with, is it out of the ordinary to request overflying the field at 500 ft above traffic pattern?

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You should not attempt to overfly a towered field 500 feet above tpa. If you’re unfamiliar and can’t spot the airport from a distance, ask approach for vectors to final.

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