Backcountry Pilot

An Alaskan charter pilot makes a difficult decision to go around after a complex wind situation puts him long and fast at the Sparrevohn Long Range Radar Station.

Two friends learn a valuable lesson about mountain flying and barely escape with their lives in the Middle Fork area of the Idaho Backcountry.

Saturday morning was gorgeous, and good weather was promised for the weekend, so I headed south from Anchorage. Here, the Homer spit on the south end of the Kenai peninsula...

There was a moose on a gravel bar nearby, but a couple of approaches to the nearest landing spot proved too tight for me to get in for a landing. Fortunately, this bar did not disappoint as the sunset progressed...

On the Kenai peninsula...

The new Firman pod is on, and now I just need more junk to stuff in it...

I was planning to fly to Alaska on the Alaska Highway, but got talking with a friend Loni a couple days ago and learned he was headed up with his friend Mark, both in supercubs a couple days after I was planning to go. So it was decided to be a caravan of three...

Intro post featuring the Super Cub