Operating Out of a High Elevation Airport?

high-altitude airports tend in mountains, , there's truckload of things need know fly safely in mountains. plenty of online resources available help, , it's idea go flying experience mountain or high-altitude pilot first few times venture out. it's lot more maintaining altitude ground. have know you're going , changes in terrain ahead , how you're going escape if tight situation (or more correctly, how you're going avoid such situations begin with).

here's sobering video of happens when you're not familiar mountain flying:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64w--j89k...

there no survivors. years before wreck discovered, along badly deteriorated video tape had been recorded on-board camera.

generally speaking, advise safe altitude of airport out of conduct leisure flying in cessna 152 or such? (one imagine entail flying @ least 2,000 feet above ground level.)

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