Backcountry Pilot

A long-time Alaskan takes some international visitors for a tour of frozen Lake George, and is reminded of the power of the airplane to expose the uninitiated to a wildly different world.

A young pilot guides a Piper Tri-Pacer to his first-ever fly-in: the annual High Sierra event in the high desert of Nevada, where memories are cemented by golden light and relentless dust.

Jake Morrel has released a new memoir from conversations with long-time Maine Warden Service pilot Gary Dumond, in which he recounts a career of bush flying adventures in Maine's fish and game airborne fleet.

Ray Watson's "Bull Moose"— a very forward-thinking LS3-powered Murphy Moose kit build— has gained fawning interest and spawned its own company specializing in Moose-specific modifications.

A return to Alaska births the realization that repeated experiences with the same old friends and their same old airplanes is a tradition worth repeating, again.

Red Bull-sponsored paraglider pilot Paul Guschlbauer set his sights on the ultimate land of adventure: Alaska, where he bought a Super Cub, and opened up a whole new world for the union of bush plane and paraglider.

The story of an ordinary man experiencing extraordinary things as a bush pilot in Papua New Guinea in the 1990s, Matt McLaughlin's memoir Flying the Knife Edge is a wonderfully depicted tale of exotic aviation adventure.

Professional pilot and aviation photographer Leonardo Correa Luna is our first quarter 2017 featured photographer. Get to know the Uruguay native and Cessna 170 pilot as he answers my questions about flying and photography.