Cross Country Advice

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During the northtown departure. You usually will get direct LAS or radar vectors before you start making the turn back towards the VOR. VGT is really simple to fly in and out of. I found LAS to be even easier though. I have no idea what the ramp fees are like there though. The big issue with VGT is runway incursions, taxiway infraction, and the controllers can be really rude to you at times.


Oh and I forgot. OAK is really easy to get into also. It's very GA friendly. It's set up where the airlines have there side and the GA pilots have there side. I'm actually sitting PM reserve here all this week.
 
My question is where to go inbetween the time I take off and the time I reach 4200', that is not shown anywhere.
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Well the others answered it already, but I am assuming they will be vectoring you with your location so close to LAS.

I think the point of the visual climb is so you do not need to meet the climb gradient. You are supposed to cross LAS (8 miles away) at 4000' if you fly the normal procedure. If you are unable to do 4000' at LAS, then you do the visual climb. That is what I think is the case, but I'd like someone to confirm it for me.
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So what exactly, in general, is the point of a visual climb SID than? Why not just file direct to your first waypoint?

I know the purposes of a SID but a visual climb in one when you can just file direct to your first route waypoint seems much more appealing than flying a full SID VFR when it's not necessary.
 
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So what exactly, in general, is the point of a visual climb SID than? Why not just file direct to your first waypoint?
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I believe it has to do with the traffic going in and out of LAS. Not only is the DP for obstacle clearance but one of the only ways out of there is to fly directly over the airport. The DP gives you the altitude needed to fly over the airport.
 
Ditto on the daytime into and out of SEZ. Not only is the view beautiful, but that is one place you might not want to visit for the first time on approach at night.

You'll understand....:D
 

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Thanks for the help everyone. I am on the balcony in the hotel in Sedona right now, the view is breath taking. I decided it would be safer for us to fly into Flagstaff and drive half an hour vs going into Sedona. I figured my first flight into the mountains probally should not be into such a hard airport and with the load we have the Conquest does not climb very well. The drive down from Flagstaff to Sedona is really pretty.

We are here for two nights, then we spend two nights in the Paris hotel in Vegas, and then one in San Diego, and then I have to get home for school! I will have plenty of pictures next week. The tail number is N505AK if anyone wants to follow me along.

Thanks,

Alex.
 
Here are a few teaser shots for you from Sedona. We took helicopter tour today through the canyons, it was awesome. These photos were taken with my little camera, so they are not as good as the ones I'll upload when I get home. The pictures don't really do it justice anyway:

This is the view from my hotel room
blaconyviewfd5.jpg


And this is after taking off out of Sedona
valleyoverviewbi6.jpg


We will be heading into Vegas tomorrow morning. I am going to file KFLG - GCN -KVGT and see if they'll let us head over the Grand Canyon and then to Vegas.

Alex
 
Thanks "sdfcvoh" & "Citationkid" for the SEZ/Sedona pics.

I plan to fly out to SEZ May 9th in a Diamond DA-40. I need to build some X-country hrs before I begin my IFR training next month.

This will be my first "real" X-country outside of my VFR training. I'm going to plan on arriving at SEZ in the morning before the winds pick up.

I always wanted to fly into SEZ after watching the King Schools VFR DVD training course where they have a aircraft to aircraft video clip of a airplane on a low approach over the numbers at SEZ.

I am quite excited!
 
Citationkid said:
Here are a few teaser shots for you from Sedona. We took helicopter tour today through the canyons, it was awesome. These photos were taken with my little camera, so they are not as good as the ones I'll upload when I get home. The pictures don't really do it justice anyway:

This is the view from my hotel room
blaconyviewfd5.jpg


And this is after taking off out of Sedona
valleyoverviewbi6.jpg


We will be heading into Vegas tomorrow morning. I am going to file KFLG - GCN -KVGT and see if they'll let us head over the Grand Canyon and then to Vegas.

Alex
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:drool: Keep um comming!:drool:
 
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