VFRguy Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 I built a flight plan for a 620 mile flight across NW Africa. Al-Msassira to Es Senia. It has 7 legs with the first 100 mile leg ending at Menara. 60 miles of this leg crosses mountains and the 1st leg airport POI said the highest point of my flight was 7500ft. I have no doubt that the airport POI is correct but I wanted to check it out anyway. So, I configured my Beloved Baron to the SUPERMAN Mode and lifted off. I set the altitude to 7500ft. and headed for the mountains following my flight plan. When I got close to the ridge line I set the camera to just below the aircraft to get a better view of the crossing. I saw that it would be close. It soon became clear I was not doing to make it and I did a go around. This time I checked my path on the VFR Map more closely. On the approach I gave the autopilot plenty of time to settle down. My plan was turn off the autopilot just before the crossing so I could climb up if needed. If every thing is steady when the autopilot is turned off there will be no change in attitude. The approach was fine and steady, hard to tell if I was going to make it. Just as I crossed the ridge I bottomed out. So close, 1 more try. On my next approach when I turned off the autopilot I added a tiny bit more lift and made it across OK. I had to be dead on with my flight path because the ground was a little bit higher on both sides. The only problem was on the 2nd try. I scratched up the bottom of my brand new FlightSim.com paint job. VFRguy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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