tony roberts wrote:
Here's what I do

Go to Landings.com
Enter your route and receive terrain avoidance altitudes
Check it on your charts
Plan route accordingly
Fly route, double checking with your terrain avoidance GPS - highly
recommend the Lowrance 2000 for $700.00

Tony
C-GICE



In article . com,
"Dan" wrote:


My early years of flying were spent in the Midwest where as long as you
were over 2000 MSL, there were very few obstacles to hit and no
terrain. Now that I have moved out West (Phoenix) I am increasingly
paranoid about hitting terrain at night.

Choosing a cruise altitude is easy (well above anything even close to
your route). However, what I worry about is my letdown to pattern
altitude at the destination airport as well as departure. Short of
filing IFR (which carries with it Oxygen requirements for some local
MEAs) what other strategies do you all use? Any "systems" or
tricks to share, or is it pretty much just look at the sectional and
make a plan?

--Dan





Yes, as I was reading this thread I starting thinking how much I REALLY
like my little box with the green triangles, the yellow triangles and
the red triangles. Even flying VFR on the east coast (5 in haze is GOOD
weather) the terrain avoidance as well as the traffic avoidance really
helps. The XM weather will probably end up paying for itself with the
savings in hotels and rental cars for those times you get up in the air
and say, hmmmmm, if this gets any worse, it could be bad. I'll just go
back and try again tomorrow. With the XM sometimes, if you are lucky,
it comes up and shows you are in the worst of it and if you just alter
your flight 20 miles east you will avoid everything.

Margy

Margy