Estimated time to complete:
- 60 minutes

Aircraft:
- Beechcraft Baron 58

Objectives:
- Handling one failed-engine during Landing with a gross weight Baron

 

Telluride, Colorado (KTEX), is a challenging airport in many ways; it's at more than 9,000 feet above sea level and up a box canyon for starters.

You're at the end of Runway 27, which takes you straight out and down the canyon. Take off in this gross-weight Baron- you'll use almost all the 9,000-foot runway-and lift off. Fail the left engine with the fuel selector just after takeoff. Now you'll need to weave down the valley as you slowly sink and find a place to land. Use your GPS, and stay out of the trees. There is an airport out there. You just have to find it.

Ref.: West, Jeff Van. Microsoft Flight Simulator X For Pilots: Real World Training. Wiley. Kindle Edition(Location 12976).

MISSION'S SCENARIOS

The Telluride Challenge

  1. Initial conditions:
    1. You are at Telluride airport (KTEX) more than 9000 feet MSL.
    2. You are at the end of Runway 27 which take you straight out and down a box canyon.
    3. You are flying a gross-weight Baron.
  2. Lean down the engines.
  3. Takeoff (you will use all the 9,000-foot runway).
  4. Fail the left engine with the fuel selector just after takeoff.
  5. You will need to weave down the valley as you slowly sink.
  6. Find a place to land.
  7. Use your GPS and stay out of the trees.
  8. There is an airport out there.
  9. Find it and land.

MAPS & CHARTS

KTEX Airport Diagram:


KTEX Sectional Chart: