Backcountry Pilot

A couple of weeks ago I flew over to Kidwell Nevada to take CC Pocock's intro to Mountain and Backcountry Flying Level 1 course. I was hoping to do some off airports landings but that comes at Level 2...

A few of us met up at Ocotillo yesterday. Great Day! Light winds all day and the runway was in excellent shape https://youtu.be/FaJrIZ2HLYI https://youtu.be/EO_fREMvekA https://youtu.be/M8N_RurMvqY

Hope this works. Never tried posting someone else facebook video, but we have some interesting aircraft gathering down here. All started this weekend with Facebook posts of a Stearman named Felix spotted...

I had a shop install an Alaskan Bushwheel fork on my Scott 3200 . Went over to pick it up and started to taxi away and noticed I couldn’t turn left without breaking. Tailwheel tension was way too tight...

As posted I recently upgraded My Pacer to 26 inch Goodyear's and an Alaskan Baby Bushwheel fork with the 404 tire. Went out Sunday to test out all the new gear with some touch and go's to see how it all...

A guy in my old flying club organized a Fly-By for the Healthcare workers here in San Diego. Their were more planes than these Stearmans too. They did a great job Cool little video https://youtu.be/OkN2MTAk_jg

Im stuck in SoCal for life and that means mostly pavement. At least at the home airport. I would like to go up in tire size, currently running 8.5's . Im working on getting my landings shorter and slower...

Went out to Ocotillo and the Desert with my Buddy Roy. First Dirt landing in my own airplane. Not Backcountry but Im going in the right direction https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/47993346077_8ddf88d114_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/47993345937_0109083771_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/47993351247_699a818a03_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/47993348928_4fd9205969_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/47993397961_07e35fe401_c.jpg

Any reason to keep one of these ? My pacer came with one. It works fine but you cant update the data base . Any reason to keep it? I am using foreflight on a mini ipad. Wanting to sell off the Garmin...

I have to pay a "Luxury Tax" for owning an airplane in San Diego County. Its .01% of the planes value. You can have this taxed waived if you have an older aircraft ( at least 50 years old I think) and...

I put my Pacer in the shop to get 8.5 tires installed, went on vacation and haven’t flown in a month Went out this morning and did 3 attempted landings First one was fine. Second was a go around because...

Flew my Pacer from KFTG to KSEE last week. You know, February isn't the best time to fly a small plane along this route. It took three days due to weather. The last day we were at E60 and saw good weather...

Just got my Pacer Home to El Cajon and was wondering what tools are considered a must have in the aircraft. Not asking about survival gear.......plain ole wrenches sockets and hammers . Fire away