For our commercial ratings, we usually do a day VFR cross country to a little airstrip on the north end of Lake Powell. If you know me at all, then you hear of Powell all the time, so it must be pretty spectacular, right?
We usually start here.
We usually start here.
And enjoy some changing scenery from mountains, to harsh desert. Then we arrive.
And here is what we have to work with, haha. Yes really. It's all in good fun, a little raised blood pressure, adrenaline rush. Yeah, it's awesome.
In the moment, you don't realize all of the hazards, but it's totally worth it.
The wingtips hang over the edge, there's a turn in the runway, and then there's this, the best part... It doesn't look like much, but there's a very rocky and prominent ridge on the other side, so we end up flying in-between these rock structures in order to land.
