x/c options Tucson to El Paso

No promises, but the SeeYou satellite images appear
to show cultivated fields starting 12 miles west of
Deming. Other than that there's noting but open desert.
Best advice is to keep a healthy altitude margin heading
east out of Lordsburg and gas up along the way. If
you can't get enough altitude to make Deming easily
stay within a conservative glide of Lordsburg until
you do.

A decent summer day in that part of the southwest should
yield more than enough altitude to make it in one shot
(~10k AGL). If it's not a good day you'll probably
have trouble getting as far a Lordsburg in the first
place.

9B


At 01:30 28 May 2004, Bart W wrote:
Okay, I think I've got most of it figured out:

S: El Tiro --.-
1 Brave Bull 29.7
2 Cascabel 33.5
3 Willcox 28.4
4 Bowie 25.0
5 San Simon 14.4
6 Steins 14.9
7 Lordsburg 19.1
8 Deming 56.4 *** help!
9 Solo Ranch 18.5
10 Las Cruces 28.2
11 Cielo Dorado 31.0
F: West Tx Apt 27.0

Casey does the first half look like what you described?

The part I'm looking for more help on is Lordsburg
to Deming. Looking
at the maps, I can find nothing; no airfields, farms
or strips of any
kind. Just 56+ miles of glider repellant.

-Bartman

(bart w) wrote in message
news:...
I'm looking for a list of good landing sites between
Tucson (El Tiro)
and El Paso (West Texas Airport, home of El Paso Soaring).
By 'good
landing sites' I mean regularly used airfields and
known good landing
strips or fields that are easily accessible with the
retrievehicle.

Any help from someone with experience along that route
would be most
appreciated.

-Bartman