Jay

One more item that has not been mention in this thread.

Be sure and check density altitude at the airports you take off from
enroute. Even with 235 HP you might, due to loading (pax, fuel, dog,
baggage, etc.) get pretty close to the edge of the envelope. Set down
and compute what your T/O performance is at 60-65% power to get a feel
of what you might run into in the warmer WX and high altitude fields.

You might have to schedule some early morning T/O's if temp gets up.
Of course that is not al bad as the 'ride' is normally better before
the humps and bumps come up with the heat of the day.

After all that has been posted, fly conservative and you should have a
good trip and see lots of country besides corn field after soy bean
field after corn field after soy bean field as far as the eye can see
)

Watch the WX and have a good trip.

Big John


On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 22:07:59 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

The early airmail pilots did it. I'm pretty sure the Rockies aren't
significantly higher now than they were then.

True, but with an unacceptably high degree of risk. Their accident and
mortality rates were appalling.