A friend of mine owns a private airstrip in the Selway with his family.

I would like to be a Bush Pilot someday, so it's a great place to gain experience.

My aircraft is still a work in process, so here is a takeoff and landing in a borrowed airplane, car gas from Lone Pine Conoco and an old camera strapped to the left wing strut. It's nickel rub all the way, but it's the best I can do at the moment.

Richard

Great video!

Don't worry about rubbing nickels, enjoy what you can afford and keep making memories!

Very nice. High tech and expensive does not always make for better. Keep them coming.

Very good. I liked how you accelerated in low ground effect on takeoff. 40 degrees of Fowler flaps make landing a 150 short no problem. The advantage of flying on a tight budget is that you get to fly low powered airplanes. In low powered airplanes, you learn to fly the wing and use natural energy like ground effect, gravity, ridge lift, and thermals. Mountain flying is not a problem as long as you always know which way is down hill and how to get there in low ground effect if necessary. Up high you will not have excess engine thrust for climb needed to maintain altitude in a turn. Not a problem. Just allow the nose to go down, as designed, in the turn. Gravity thrust will make up for the vertical lift lost in the turn.

Nice !!

Looks like fun! I love the Selway. never flown in there but have floated it several times. Seen planes come in and out of that place several times but always on the longer strip.

It's not what you fly ..but, where you land! (5) Stars.

contactflying wrote:
The advantage of flying on a tight budget is that you get to fly low powered airplanes. In low powered airplanes, you learn to fly the wing and use natural energy like ground effect, gravity, ridge lift, and thermals.

Gravity thrust will make up for the vertical lift lost in the turn.

+1

There have been many times in my own mountain flying experience (which is way different than most others here) when lowering the nose in a turn was 100% necessary to maintain a tight turn radius, and more importantly give you additional airspeed you could convert into "sideways lift" to clear the rocks. Enough vertical room to lower the nose was very frequently the only emergency safety margin available when you're flying around 12,000 foot rocks at wingspan distance in gusty afternoon lift at 1.1 Vs. For the most part, horsepower and lift fade away with altitude but gravity is still putting out it's rated thrust.

' far as I'm concerned, rubbing nickels is an integral part of aviation in many areas. There are of course many times and places where you have to spend money to do it right, or do it at all. But there are just as many places IMHO where finding another way to skin the cat teaches some valuable skill or thought process.

In that kind of situation in your video, it's likely that the condition and health of that particular 150 makes a big difference versus another 150. Well... that and removing the right seat

I have removed this video. This strip is strictly private and the owner would like to keep it that way.

Richard