I love getting to combine my love of formation flying with off-airport operations. Here Larry and I come around the corner with me flying off of his wing. I tuck under the trees along the shoreline to line up on my final while he flies to the right edge of this sandbar. We simultaneously touchdown in the shallow water.

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What a blast...In the outside shot I didn't see you tucked under the trees till close to the touchdown.

Stilly or Skagit?
Kind of a blind canyon down there below the treetops,
just remember you might not be the only ones flying the river.
It'd be pretty exciting to come around a bend and end up nose-to-nose with another aircraft.

hotrod180 wrote:Stilly or Skagit?
Kind of a blind canyon down there below the treetops,
just remember you might not be the only ones flying the river.
It'd be pretty exciting to come around a bend and end up nose-to-nose with another aircraft.

Hotrod,

This was Snohomish River.

We had two spotters on the ground with radios, so meeting someone nose-to-nose that we weren't aware of was pretty unlikely. That turn and trees aren't nearly as blind or tight as Dogleg Bar by any means. You will notice we don't even need to exceed 20 degrees of bank in the turn.

We did have two other aircraft come through the vicinity down low, one a helicopter and the other a fixed wing. We could hear both before we saw them. But like any VFR flying see and avoid is applicable.