Backcountry Pilot

Yesterday I flew out to Eastsound airport on Orcas Island and as I taxied up to my tie down spot I see a group of people milling around a Cessna on the ramp with a crane attached to it supporting the plane...

I love all things aviation and I read a lot of aviation books, mostly historical works of non-fiction, and a few of fiction. Often I come across a passage of literary prose that poetically captures our...

Maybe this is a stupid question from a guy who has very little experience with CS props, but here goes. With the prop driven fighters such as the P-51 P-38 etc; ....when they were engaged in a dogfight...

After landing today I did a normal walk around inspection of the plane and found this ugly crack in my spinner. Thankful that nothing came apart while in flight. Is this spinner toast? Can it be repaired?...

So Im flying back at night to my home airport in Bellingham WA KBLI which is a large Class D airport with 737's and the like coming and going. Im on tower frequency and inside D airspace about 1.5 miles...

The Orcas Island Fly-In is this weekend (Aug 5-7) at Eastsound's airport on Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands in northwest WA state. This is a fun small town airport Fly-In with pretty good turnout...

Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands is my most visited destination as it is only a 10 minute flight from my home base and it is an awesome place. I had known about the old Grumman Widgeon that was once...

After watching another post of a missing man memorial flight I decided to share the one I filmed (shakily) of my dads memorial flight from the back seat of a North American T-6 in a 5 plane formation flight....

The small North Cascade town of Concrete hosts its annual Fly-In this July 22-24. http://vintageaircraftmuseum.org/calendar/concrete-north-cascades-fly-in/ This Fly-In is a local favorite with a...

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Yep, that's her on the shoulders of the crew members. My mom before I was even a twinkle. https://www.backcountrypilot.org/images/originalphotos/1169/767/f2a1106aa349bd3ad98cbeb7.jpg

You really have to be a real pilot to appreciate this baby. https://www.backcountrypilot.org/images/originalphotos/1169/767/a1010ab3c32b5bd506817262.jpg https://www.backcountrypilot.org/images/originalphotos/1169/767/2e7b14333662afba3f791074.jpg https://www.backcountrypilot.org/images/originalphotos/1169/767/2e7b14333662afba3f791074.jpg

My wife and I just returned from a most relaxing flyin camp out at Cavanaugh Bay air strip on Priest Lake in northern Idaho. This may not truly rate as a back country air strip but if you want to really...

Does anybody know what shape Cavanaugh Bay strip on Priest Lake is in right now? When do people start flying in there? I miss them ribs.

Never too early to plan our summer destinations so I thought I would put in a plug for a couple of local Flyins that I try to make every year. One is at the Concrete WA airport which is a great little...

A few years back I saw a local internet add for a contest to win a free ride in a vintage B-25. I decided, what the heck, and entered the contest. It was an essay contest that required the entries to write...

This has probably already been covered in here somewhere, but does anybody know if Cessna will still pay for the "reel type" seat stops that are mounted under the seat? I had them installed for free on...