No...but flying a helicopter and landing in confined LZs in the Rockies at no MFing joke!. When I was in the 4th ID the Aviation Brigade had it's own Mountain POI. You had to be a certified "Mountain" PIC before you could land in LZs above 8.000 ft. We routinely landed in confined LZs, some as high as 13,000 +. On the right day, weather and density altitude permitting you cloud fly over pikes peak......allegedly, lol. It was a good POI. Included things like go/no go max power checks at altitude before proceeding into the mountains. AC power management, loss of tail rotor effectiveness mitigation, mountain weather, wind estimate at PZ/LZ, etc.
The Cav/Attack BN had OH 58A's (I think A+) and C's they flew in the mountains. You know all about that....serious finesse in the cockpit to pull that off! When I was in the 4th ID the 101st came to town with their UH-60As and hit the mountains with zero mountain POI training, cause 'Moar Power and Big Tail Roter". On day 2 they had a class A accident (nobody killed) at about 9,000 ft that the Rucker Safety Center Accident Investigation guys determined was due to "high gross weight and loss of tail rotor effectiveness". My unit flew some of the investigators to the crash site in a UH-1H, lol.
Did you ever land on the "postage stamp" or see the wreckage of the Medevac UH-1H on the side of Pikes Peak above the timber line? How about go to Leadville/Lake County Airport and get your pilot certificate from Ursula (the FBO Queen) for landing at the the airport with the highest field elevation in North America?
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