Similar to the
notorious "Mail Routes" in the Juneau Hub, each of these charter flights has
been designed to add a "little" challenge to each pilot in the areas of
short takeoff and landing, high density altitude airfields, soft field
takeoff and landings, etc. Feel brave enough? Give them a try!!!
- Charter 1
- Round robin flight around the Green River beginning at Price (Carbon
County), Utah: A Carbon County rancher requests the pickup of 200 pounds
of supplies at his mountaintop ranch (that is inaccesible by auto), called
Tavapats. This equipment needs to be ferried to nearby Rogers Roost. Once
this cargo haul is complete, it'll be time to fly to Mineral Canyon along
the Green River in order to pickup a couple passengers, movie stars who
are filming on location for an upcoming movie. These passengers must be
ferried to Hanksville for some needed rest away from the set. After
complete, return to Carbon County.
- Charter 2-
This particular charter route is a VFR round robin flight around the
mountains of Boise in Southwestern Idaho. The runways on these fields
are short and some of the approaches are steep. The Mountain Air Beaver
or the DH6 Twin Otter would make great choices. Leave Boise with a
payload of 2000 lbs.
- Classified Shipment - A shipment of specialized parts are being shipped in from overseas. This must be a matter of national security since the parts are being brought in from an undisclosed loaction by the USAF. Mountain Air will send a B1900 from KSLC to Hill AFB to get the parts. We'll then fly into Tremonton to pick up a technician and ferry him and the parts on. We'll have to stop in KTWF to drop off some of the parts and pick up a few more. Then it's on to KBOI and pick up another tech. His specialized tools are in KPDT so we'll have to stop there. We'll proceed to our destination of KPSC to deliver all of the equipment and techs so they can get over to the Handford Atomic Energy complex. We'll lay over until the techs are finished with this job. Then we'll head back south with them and their tools. From PSC we'll stop at KBOI and drop off some of the tools and one tech. Our other passenger needs to stop at KPIH. When he's through there we'll take him back home to KSLC.
- Round Robin - VFR round robin flight around northern Utah and southern Idaho.
A Box elder county rancher has chartered us to pick him and his wife up in Morgan
to get an aerial view of some properties that they are considering purchasing. I
flew this in a Cessna 172.
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