Good advice. I would add that you must be careful of low fog throughout the California Central Valley in the winter from Redding to Bakersfield at times, check the weather carefully. This can form and linger for many days sometimes. It is usually no higher than 1000-1500' MSL, so even with the fog you could fly along the Sierra foothills, but then you're over unfriendly terrain the whole way down California. But there are a number of foothill airports for refueling. Also in the Mohave (California) and Sonora (Arizona-New Mexico) deserts, use a moving map GPS and also use flight following. There are many military restricted areas in the desert--not just MOAs--and they will not overlook unauthorized intrusions. If you fly east of the Cascades in Eastern Oregon, you will end up in Nevada instead of California. Very isolated and many restricted areas. I personally would not take that route in a Coupe. Ralph Finch Davis, California
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Lewis Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 9:11 PM To: Richard Green Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ercoupe-flyin] Oregon to TX If you are not comfortable witn mountains the best route is to follow interstate 5 south until about Bakersfield, then swing west by Edwards AFB to Dagett and continue west on the southern route. There will be a few airports around 4000 ft but you should be able to avoid the and the need to fly hgher than 6-7000 ft . At this time of year density altitude should not be a worry. The southern route will also avoid most danger or snow and ice. Weather on the first couple of legs in Oregon can be an issue and you might need to pick the day to get over the Siskiyous and other mountains in Southern Oregon - generally it clears up by the time you hit the California border. If weather is dicey in Western Oregon, consider taking the Columbia Gorge east and flying east of the cascades where the weather is usually clearer. There is some high terrain continuing on that route into California so at the California border I would take a good look at that route and, depending on the weather and your comfort with altitude consider returning to the I5 corridor Richard Green wrote: > New member. I will have an Ercoupe around mid-January and need to get > it from the Portland area to the Houston TX area. Any advice about a > route down through CA? I haven't flown out in the west coast > previously. > Best regards, > Rich > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > -- Steven M. Lewis PhD 4221 105th Ave NE Kirkland, WA 98033 425-889-2694 206-384-1340 (cell) Skype lordjoe_com AIM LordJoe2000 ICQ 127138272 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:smlewis%40lordjoe.com> com (permanent)
