Backcountry Pilot • The Great Arctic Air Adventure

The Great Arctic Air Adventure

A general forum for anything related to flying the backcountry. Please check first if your new topic fits better into a more specific forum before posting.
8 postsPage 1 of 1

The Great Arctic Air Adventure

I thought I'd seen someone post about this but I searched and couldn't find anything. It looks very cool travelogue. I watched a few of the videos and started to get jealous, because I just can't think of anything cooler than exploring in a pair of Beavers. Although it's hard to look at a 55 gallon drum of fuel these days without seeing $300.

http://www.greatarcticairadventure.com/
Zzz offline
Janitorial Staff
User avatar
Posts: 2855
Joined: Fri Oct 08, 2004 11:09 pm
Location: northern
Aircraft: Swiveling desk chair
Half a century spent proving “it is better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.”

Links to beaver exploration sites?? What's BCP coming to?

Seriously, looks like an awesome trip, those guys are having all the fun. Stearman around Oz and now this! Hate to see the fuel bill for these exploits.
Vick offline
User avatar
Posts: 823
Joined: Fri Jan 06, 2006 2:21 pm
Location: Grass Valley, CA
FindMeSpot URL: http://share.findmespot.com/shared/face ... WUk8CX06AP
Solum Volamus

Looks like one heck of a trip....only two things wrong with it.....

1) I don't have an oilwell to afford to be there also, and......

2) Since I'm not there, it sucks that the interactive map apparently isn't working...... :(
AKGrouch offline
User avatar
Posts: 346
Joined: Sun Feb 24, 2008 11:55 pm
Location: Anchorage, Alaska
1966 C182J
1960 C172 TD :(

They probably are using SPOT to post to the interactive map. That would explain why its not working! :)
Rhyppa offline
Posts: 263
Joined: Fri Mar 14, 2008 8:50 pm
Location: Cook, Minnesota

Well if any of you out there know someone with lots of money looking to make a documentary film of a low time back country wannabe go on some remote float plane adventure in some desolate part of the world, I can leave in the morning. :D
hooznext offline
Posts: 63
Joined: Sun Jan 07, 2007 9:51 pm
Location: NW Ohio

"Well if any of you out there know someone with lots of money looking to make a documentary film of a low time back country wannabe go on some remote float plane adventure in some desolate part of the world, I can leave in the morning. "

Hooznext, If you need a wingman to help you spend that generous offer that will soon be heading your way. Let me know I can Fly your cameraman for the air to air shots you will need. :D
m7flyer offline
User avatar
Posts: 353
Joined: Tue May 09, 2006 11:27 am
Location: WHP, OG41
FindMeSpot URL: http://share.findmespot.com/shared/face ... t7FIHuMd0G

Here's a cool video from their website... there's no smooth way to embed with controls so if you want you can just view from their video section.

That Beaver is simply beautiful.

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" width="500" height="331" id="ShakedownCruise" align="middle"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" />
<param name="movie" value="http://www.greatarcticairadventure.com/Video/ShakedownCruise/FuelTransfer.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /><param name="base" value="http://www.greatarcticairadventure.com/Video/ShakedownCruise/" /><embed base="http://www.greatarcticairadventure.com/Video/ShakedownCruise/" src="http://www.greatarcticairadventure.com/Video/ShakedownCruise/ShakedownCruise.swf" quality="high" wmode="transparent" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="500" height="361" name="FuelTransfer" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" allowFullScreen="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /></object>
Zzz offline
Janitorial Staff
User avatar
Posts: 2855
Joined: Fri Oct 08, 2004 11:09 pm
Location: northern
Aircraft: Swiveling desk chair
Half a century spent proving “it is better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.”

$300.00 per drum??

Hey, if you can get a drum for 300 in the north... that's a deal. In Kuujjuaq, CYVP it was $592.45 or $2,89 / litre Thankfully I wasn't flying a Beaver.
sheephunter offline
Posts: 92
Joined: Tue Jun 05, 2007 8:58 am
Location: Central Ontario

DISPLAY OPTIONS

8 postsPage 1 of 1

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 4 guests

Latest Features

Latest Knowledge Base