Trail to Sullivan Lake (09S)

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From:	CAD4 Trail, Trail, Canada
To:	09S Sullivan Lake State, Metaline Falls, Washington
Duration:	15 minutes, gate to gate
Flight description:	Flight is to Sullivan Lake, Washington (09S). Fire up the Caravan and take off rwy 34 at Trail. Make a 270 degree left turn and head east down the valley, climb to 5000 ft. Follow the valley and head straight to Sullivan lake. When you see the airport you can start descent to 3600 ft.to join left downwind. What makes this fun is that the lake is surrounded my mountains you have to make a tight 180 degree turn to line up for final. Land on rwy 34, it's only 1900 ft.
Special conditions:	As always, it's nice with inclement weather. Crosswind makes it even more challenging
Airliner:	Unspecified	Flight number:
Aircraft:	General Aviation 1 Engine	Cruise Altitude:	FL 50 (5000 ft.)
Added by:	pwarren	Date added:	Feb. 27, 2005
Rating:	(5 votes)	Views	2601

Flight Reviews

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Rating	Date added	Member	Review
	Jun. 12, 2007	bmolony	Flew it again this time in FSX and the Baron. It remains a very nice short flight in beautiful, heavily mountainous scenery. While the safe approach is still Rwy 34 via a 180 over the lake, Rwy 16 is still very flyable. The runway is at 2500' MSL. At first I thought maybe an FL035 approach through the valley from northwest of the field was necessary. I made that one more or less successfully. But I tried it again and this time found that a direct approach from around FL050 was quite a bit safer. Regardless, you need to plan on a full flaps, idle throttle glide threading a needle between some trees near the end of the rwy and then hit the brakes immediately on touchdown in order to stop before running into the lake. A very nice challenge. Loved it! Thanks!
	Aug. 14, 2005	Spiderblog	Hammering it over the lake at 150 knots as I was using FSPassengers and didn't want to be late. I like the flight though. Made a sweet landing and my passengers thought the same!
	Mar. 03, 2005	Hardybaby	Very good !! It´s the beautiful flight with a "Beaver"
	Feb. 28, 2005	sobor	Pretty trip. At 5000' you have to miss the mountains approach to the west gives a challenging approach. Flew in a chipmunk.
	Feb. 28, 2005	bmolony	Very nice flight. Beautiful scenery in winter! The Piper Cub is probably the better choice. And doing the 180 on approach really not as much fun--too easy to come in over the lake. The Rny 16 approach is much more challenging. Just have to make sure the wheels don't hit those last trees before touchdown! :) Thanks! I enjoyed it!