Glad you like it! We'd love to tell you how we did it, but.....

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We fuel stopped there last month!

@@Boldmethod Oh, missed ya! Not great for actual IMC, but if you're looking for high winds and high DA's, Cedar City is the spot!

Thanks Marcus!

Our in-house VFX team does it. That's all we can say! :)

@@Boldmethod I hear you. As an ex-developer long time ago I think I have some general idea how it is done

We flew these last month. Fortunately, no smoke when we were out there!

You should not attempt to overfly a towered field 500 feet above tpa. If you’re unfamiliar and can’t spot the airport from a distance, ask approach for vectors to final.

while you wait on their reply I would definitely not go full rich below a 3,000 ft density altitude. whatever your best power is before entering the pattern should be good.

Really good question Fred. MSAs provide at least 1,000 feet of obstacle protection within the 25NM radius. This particular radius includes Lone Cone, a nearly 13,000' mountain to the south (just west of Telluride). However, the terrain rapidly drops as you transition from south to north toward KAIB. As we passed the high terrain (we were west of Lone Cone), we started our descent and were several thousand feet AGL until reaching the airport.

@@Boldmethod Thank you for your reply! Follow-up question: if other than VFR OR after sunset, would you have descended as you did during the video and continued to this airport OR fly to an alternate? My focus with the question(s) is on terrain avoidance.

@@fred5727 We generally don't fly into mountain airports after dark for safety reasons. If we were IFR, we would have followed ATC's instructions for altitudes (they will keep you above the minimum vectoring altitude if you're off route, or keep you at/above the minimum altitudes for published routes). We would also cross-check those altitudes ATC gives us with the minimum altitudes for the routing that we're on, as well as the minimum altitude for the initial approach fix where we would start the approach. Additionally, the G1000 Nxi now has an AGL readout, so you're aware of your height above ground at all times. Putting all those things together, we can safely navigate in mountainous terrain and make sure we have obstacle clearance at all times.

@@Boldmethod Outstanding reply. Thanks so much for the indepth info. You're the best!!

Configuration error :( It's updated, thanks for letting us know!

Many new projects in the works! All of our content is posted to boldmethod.com (daily) so check there for more as well 👍

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