Has anyone flown in to mile high with a tricycle gear aircraft?

side slip wrote:Has anyone flown in to mile high with a tricycle gear aircraft?

Peterson(260SE?) Katiana -with Sparky Imeson driving .

182 STOL driver wrote:

side slip wrote:Has anyone flown in to mile high with a tricycle gear aircraft?

Peterson(260SE?) Katiana -with Sparky Imeson driving . May take 182 this year -got a video of 185 and 170's .

Ah yes, I remember now that they landed the wren(katmai) there for the demo video. I've seen vids/pics of 185, 170 etc. there but couldn't remember seeing a trike. I would think that a good 182, or even a 180hp+ 172 should be fine in the proper conditions.

There has been at least one stock straight tail 172 into Mile High. Possibly two. May have been the same 172 with two different female pilots. I Have seen the photo of one of them.

Trimtab

Mile High airstrip is primarily limited by pilot ability and currency, not really by aircraft type. It is very short, steep, very challenging, hazardous, a little rough, and not very forgiving of any mistakes. Other than that it is great for many types of aircraft. See "Idaho August 2008 Trip 19" on You Tube. It is a Franklin 220hp Cessna 175 Tri gear at Mile High.

The local outfitters have been taking Cessna 206's loaded with hunters, gear, elk meat, etc. in and out of Mile Hi, Vines and Dewey Moore for as long as I've been aware.

If you have a capable plane and are good at touching down where you intend to, and are comfy on moderate slopes, then these are easy places to land and take-off from. If you don't then they would all be easy places to have some real problems.

yup, seen the same photo of the 172 at mile high, and everywhere else u can name...pro lady pilots rock...