Summary
This flight goes from LFMR (Barcelonette Saint Pons) to LFNC (Montdauphin Saint Crépin) and follows the french italian border. We’ll head to Monviso and come back to France, flying over Agnel pass and then following the Guil river.
This area is a well known gliders area.
Previous tour:
Alpine tour : Verdon canyon and Allos pass
Time of event:
Please spawn 15 min before time of event.
Server
Expert
Airfields
Departure
LFMR (Barcelonette Saint Pons)
This airfield is small: if we’re more than 4 aircrafts, please taxi to the gliders stocking area near the TO RWY after spawning. The TO RWY will be defined in this event’s conversation.
Arrival
LFNC (Montdauphin Saint Crépin).
Caution: we’ll probably need to backtaxi RWY16 after landing at LFNC. In this case, please backtaxi on the grass on the east side of RWY16 (RWY34R on the chart). If necessary, you can park your aircraft on parking November.
Aircraft
XCub
Fuel : 40 kg (don’t forget to lean the mixture during the flight)
Pilot : 92 kg
Passenger : 0 kg
Freight : 15 kg
C172s or C208s are also welcome.
Flight plan
LFMR 4425N/644E 4428N/646E 4430N/645E 4431N/646E 4432N/650E 4433N/652E 4434N/654E 4433N/656E 4436N/657E 4438N/705E 4438N/707E 4440N/709E 4442N/707E 4441N/704E 4439N/704E 4439N/705E 4440N/706E 4441N/705E 4441N/659E 4443N/651E 4446N/649E 4445N/646E 4443N/646E 4441N/642E 4440N/637E LFNC
Flight time : 40 min.
Distance : 69 nm
Caution: the waypoints aren’t precise enough to follow the valleys. They are only intented to give the general direction to follow. If you want, you can follow me (callsign F-VDPE).
Speed & altitude
95 kts IAS to enable narrow following of planes (0 to 1 Nm).
Climb to 10300 ft at 700 ft/min.
After 4436N/657E, climb to 12700 ft at 800 ft/min to fly around Monviso.
After 4441N/704E, descend quickly to 10500 ft to make a narrow flyaround of Monviso.
After the Agnel pass (4441N/659E), on the french-italian border, descend to 5000 ft at 900 ft/min.
