Backcountry Pilot

2015 Javron wide body Super Cub, 180 hp Lycoming with 10.5-1 pistons, 84” 1p-235 propeller, Oratex fabric, empty weight 1189 on brand new 35” A.B.W., custom wing big wing, PSTOL double slotted flap and...

2015 Javron wide body Super Cub, 180 hp Lycoming with 10.5-1 pistons, 84” 1p-235 propeller, Oratex fabric, empty weight 1189 on brand new 35” A.B.W., custom wing big wing, PSTOL double slotted flap and...

https://backcountrypilot.org/images/originalphotos/239/6130/ebe5bdb82e7ba69b1fef6341.jpg Bushwacker rebuild is finally complete, still working the bugs out so not completely satisfied yet. Here are...

I just got a Violation Notice in the mail for landing and camping at Vines last summer $530.00 I have been coming and going in the Big Creek drainage since 1999 and just two summers back watched McCall...

That is nothing, I just did some machine work to part on a 182 RG I believe. Main Landing Gear Pivot Assembly is what it is described as. It had a crack and was determined that it could be welded and...

I may have missed it posted here but the rolling diameter plays an important part of how big of things you can roll over with out breaking something. I know of a person that decided to put to the test,...

On Bushwacker I think the part that caused it was the new double slotted flaps, there is a lot more force to pull them on even when I slow the airplane to the point that I am at 3 point attitude flying...

This was an email I sent out to a few friends and then got to thinking it might save someone else so here is what I wrote, if I need to do more explaining I will as questions come in. Hello Friends,...

I had a flat tire with my M5-235 and 31" ABW, I landed on a grass runway and had no problem keeping it centered down the runway. Might have been different on asphalt.