Hub Manager
Senior Command Captain, ATP -  Art Shand ALT15

 
Springtime in Colorado

Welcome to AltairVA's "Mile High Hub" at KDEN - Denver.

AltairVA is proud to be a member of the great ZDV family of virtual airlines. 

SCC Art Shand
ALT15

Nighttime approach into KASE (Aspen) RWY 15. Split screen vision aided / unaided comparison.

The Rocky Mountains ski areas have wrapped up operations leading into the summer months. Folks have swapped their skis for hiking boots, and are arriving KDEN from across the US and abroad for all manner of spring and summer activities. KDEN serves a number of smaller regional airports including Aspen, Gunnison,  Montrose, Telluride, Durango, and Hayden just to name a few. You better have your mountain flight planning and IFR skills honed because wintertime mountain weather often brings fast changing conditions, quite often of the IMC variety.

The four seasons in the Colorado Mountains can attract thousands of people and hundreds of aircraft to airports in Western Colorado. In addition to the main regionals, there are many other fun mountain strips just waiting to challenge you with their unique blend of terrain and density altitude considerations. Try a daytime flight into (and out of) Telluride- that's one you'll never forget. Remember, seasonal changes in the local mountain weather patterns bring special flying challenges. 

Need some refresher training? Head out to the left coast to AltairVA's Long Beach training Academy. KDEN's own beloved Professor Emeritus Andy "Prof" Williams has put together the VA hobby's finest training curriculum bar none. AltairVA's chief pilot, Matt Wampler (another KDEN pilot) and his Academy staff will ensure your training is successful and rewarding. Take a few written certification tests while you're there, and hey, pilot- start practicing NOW for that next checkride!

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