Alpine tour #3 : Barre des Écrins and Meige summits

[Pierre_Vorwald]

Summary

This flight goes from LFNC (Montdauphin Saint Crépin) to LFHU (l’Alpe d’Huez). We’ll fly over Mt Pelvoux, near the Barre des Ecrins and Meige summits with several glaciers.
L’Alpe d’Huez is a major french ski resort and is also a famous Tour de France arrival.

Previous tours

Alpine tour : Verdon canyon and Allos pass
Alpine tour #2 : italian Monviso and french Queyras

Server

Training

Time of event

Please spawn 15 minutes before the event.

Aircraft

XCub or C172
Fuel : 40 kg or more (don’t forget to lean the mixture during the flight)
Pilot : 92 kg
Passenger : 0 kg
Freight : 15 kg

Airfields

Departure

LFNC (Montdauphin Saint Crépin).
If necessary, you can park your aircraft on parking November after spawing.
If we need to take off from RWY34, we’ll taxi on the grass on the east side of RWY34 (RWY34R on the chart below).

Arrival

LFHU (l’Alpe d’Huez)

Flight plan

Waypoints

4454N/639E 4454N/632E 4451N/626E 4454N/623E 4455N/624E 4453N/631E 4456N/631E 4459N/626E 4457N/624E 4456N/621E 4456N/618E 4500N/618E 4501N/616E 4500N/612E 4504N/614E 4505N/608 LFHU

Caution: the waypoints aren’t precise enough to follow the valleys or to fly over passes. They are only intented to give the general direction to follow. If you want, you can follow me (callsign F-VDPE).

Distance

55 nm

Speed

90 kt IAS to enable narrow flying between planes.

Flight duration

40 min.

Altitude

12000 ft max
Don’t forget to take some oxygen with you

[Pierre_Vorwald]

At first, we’ll fly over Briançon with it’s Vauban citadel :

Then, we’ll fly over the Prorel pass located on Serre Chevalier ski resort :

Thanks to Poinas.thi and to Benj05 (on Wikipedia) for the pictures

[Pierre_Vorwald]

After that, we’ll fly over Pelvoux pass (11841 ft) between the 2 summits :

and the Glacier Blanc (11047 ft) below the Barre des Ecrins :

[Pierre_Vorwald]

After the Col des Ecrins pass (11047 ft), we’ll head North towards the Brèche de la Meige pass (11012 ft) :

[Probin]

Great!! If I remember correctly, you also hosted this event like a year ago??

[Pierre_Vorwald]

Hi ! Nice to read you
Yes, it’s my 3rd event. The 2nd one took place last december : you’ll find the link to this event at the top of the topic.
If you can come tomorrow evening, you’re welcome !

[Pierre_Vorwald]

After the Brèche de la Meige, we’ll fly over the Glacier de la Girose :

Thanks to Manuel Velazquez (Wikipedia) for the picture.

And we’ll finally land at LFHU, comming from Sarenne’s pass entry point and following the flight path provided on the visual landing chart :

[Probin]

Nice! I can remember the last time I attended your event
I’ll try to be there, not 100% sure yet.

[Pierre_Vorwald]

No problem. Take it easy !

[Probin]

Can’t make it dude. Have fun and see you with the next one

[Pierre_Vorwald]

Hi ! We’ll take off RWY16.

[Pierre_Vorwald]

Hi ! Safe evening landing at LFHU :

At the horizon, you can see the Mont de Lans glacier (Les Deux Alpes ski resort).

For those of you who liked the topic or wanted to come but couldn’t, PM me and we’ll try to fly together.