Backcountry Pilot

Heads up / warning to all - there have been active gas thieves at PABV. My airplane had gas stolen and the gas cap was incorrectly reattached recently. I didn't notice during my routine checks, until...

For anyone who has flown out of the Birchwood, Alaska ski strip in the last several years, you may have wondered who did a lot of the grooming. Jeff would drag his skandic down, and make that place pretty...

What kind of skis are those? Look like they have telemark bindings but they're a lot fatter than I remember. They are Rossignol BC 125 skis. Set up with a set of Black Diamond O-1 bindings. The BC...

It begins.... Took a bit of waiting out cold and dry weather...but it's finally arrived in the Chugach! Early morning ski swap:http://www.backcountrypilot.org/images/originalphotos/1259/1535/e86bb8cc4cb0b0d7c10d6bd3.jpg Quick...

Thanks Gump, and Merry Christmas. KW

Back to the concept of becoming part of the solution... Each state has different delegation of authority and responsibility to prosecute SAR missions. Sheriffs, troopers, Dept's of Aeronautics, Emergency...

Put a 406 ELT in your airplane. Period. It's not for you. It's for your family. Alaska SAR works, because highly trained and experienced people from Alaska State Troopers, Alaska Air Guard Rescue,...

I gotta jump on the bandwagon here... You should take it with you. UPT can have a couple challenging days, but if you don't ever take a break from the silly, you will burn out fast. Think Ferris Bueller...

If you want to go the cheap route, you can grab a couple heavy (ier) pallets. Just put a couple eye bolts on the front and back of the first pallet, and a couple eye bolts on the front of the second,...

The quality of people, service and work at Airframes is phenomenal...pretty sure that they'll raise the bar on any service compared to down south. Nice to see the fattys return to the north. Just sayin'....