Backcountry Pilot

Everyone enjoys a trip to the beach, but pilots have access to better beaches. This is what I was up to last week. yaHPHF7b4h8

I was flying over Pine Lemoray park recently and I saw some snowmobilers playing in the mountains. Because I am a child I couldn't resist dropping in to say hello :D BnLYolHukX8

I got sick and tired of waiting for someone to come out with an STC to convert the venerable PA-28 to tailwheel configuration so I opted to engineer a conversion myself. Because I found it to be too problematic...

Last week we went north to check out the abandoned Swannell River airstrip, at the confluence of the Ingenika and Swannell Rivers and to do a little fishing in the Ingenika. I couldn't have asked for...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-AfoWrIfvc I went down to the bustling metropolis of Likely BC the other day to practice techniques for flying into short gravel strips at high density altitude. Likely...

As most of us from Canada, Alaska, and the upper lower 48 know, winter flying is a lot of work and can be a massive pain. The rewards, however, are totally worth it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aGZl8n4-Pc Be...

Here's a video from a flight out to the old Lovell Cove airstrip on the shore of Takla Lake in Northern British Columbia the other day. The strip has seen better days, but my old Cherokee did ok! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw3LDc_802c