The "HOLY SHIT!" was money!

My kind of airplanist.

Totally cool. That video shows captures a big part of what back country flying means (to me anyway).

A great job!
(PS: your front wheel bearings are going to wear out)?

I'm with the beast^ on this one,

This is why I fly. Great Video, the commentary was great and the music at the end was Aces!

I seriously can't thank everyone enough for all of the kind comments. It's funny how a 30 second landing can keep the stoke high for days!

Now I just hope I'm ready to land Mile-Hi this summer. Cuz the guide book tells me I need to carry a "local professional pilot"

Do you speak spanish? Very interesting song choice that fits this kind of flying pretty well.

rw2 wrote:Do you speak spanish? Very interesting song choice that fits this kind of flying pretty well.

Right after high school I used to live/work in Puerto Natales, Chile/Torres Del Paine National Park for a couple of guiding seasons down there, so I picked up quite a bit of Spanish then... now it sits mostly forgotten.

Got me thinking an awesome trip would be to fly down to Patagonia...


song lyrics:

El Viento - The Wind

The wind just comes
The wind just goes
Across the frontier
The wind just comes
The wind just goes
Hunger comes
The man he goes
with no other reason
Hunger comes
The man, he goes
Direction Babylon
Along the highway
Along the highway
Good fortune comes
Good fortune goes
Across the frontier
Good fortune comes
Good fortune goes
The hunger comes
The man, he goes
with no other reason
Hunger comes
The man, he goes
When will he return
Along the highway
Along the highway

Awesome man! Loved it!

Now that I've got the suburban, I really look forward to the day I can get the other half of the equation: a 200 feet land and take off where I please machine. It will be a few years, but I sure look forward to the places it will open up!

Awesome video man! Glad to see other young guys flying low cost experimentals into places like that. I wish I would have had some of my early first time off airport landings on video as you would of seen a similar response. There is nothing like that feeling! Mile Hi for the first time usually does it too.

As others have said, terrific video. Lots of videos on here highlight flying in new and amazing ways. You've captured the emotion better than any other video I've seen. Good on you.

Brett

For those that where wondering, I sent the video to and confirmed with a friend in the BLM Aviation Department, that there is nothing illegal about this.


He had this to say:

"Had a nice conversation with one of our head law enforcement dudes in BLM Oregon about flights and off-airport landings on BLM dirt roads/lands. He confirmed what I thought. There is no law against it unless, as I already mentioned, it is a designated roadless area such as a Wilderness Area or Wilderness Study Area where all motorized vehicles including Jeeps, airplanes, motorcycles, four-wheelers, etc. (and unfortunately mountain bikes and paragliders) are also not allowed "

chosstronaut wrote:
Now I just hope I'm ready to land Mile-Hi this summer. Cuz the guide book tells me I need to carry a "local professional pilot"

Mile-Hi will be like an International Airport with tons of room for you compared to that little chunk of hill top you plunked onto in your video.
Nice job!

Good job. Reminds me of spraying off Rio Grande levee to stay close to my crop fields.

I hate videos like this.... hate 'em. hate 'em hate 'em...

I am stuck back East... TFR notification emails from AOPA every three days, concrete shopping malls every three miles, Interstate 95 instead of mountains, and who wants to practice off airport landings in a mall parking lot (car park). ?

Man... that Savannah is so stone cold cool. This video is cool from 0:00 to the end of the clip.

More please...even though it will even further depress me Maybe a BackCountry Boss SQ4 with a Lycoming IO540 will help cure my blues

It sounds like Prairie Mountain is quite a popular hang gliding launch site... but they seem to launch in the other direction

One of my all time favorite videos.

Godspeed Brother

Great!

I liked the video and the little Spanish tune he used. Very nice. Hope Tyler is still perfecting his craft in the Heavens,,,,

Interesting to note one of the comments from the Youtube site of this video:

RV_Six1 year ago
This year I was so inspired by the videos of Tyler flying his Savannah that I decided to have a new Savanna S built. I fly an RV6 but look forward to the STOL flying that the Savannah will offer when I get my plane in February.
This Christmas I decided to track this amazing pilot down but was very sad to see that he had a fatal accident recently.
Very sad that I will never get to meet the guy that inspired me.
R.I.P

There it is folks..

SixTwoLeemer wrote:I liked the video and the little Spanish tune he used. Very nice. Hope Tyler is still perfecting his craft in the Heavens,,,,

Interesting to note one of the comments from the Youtube site of this video:

RV_Six1 year ago
This year I was so inspired by the videos of Tyler flying his Savannah that I decided to have a new Savanna S built. I fly an RV6 but look forward to the STOL flying that the Savannah will offer when I get my plane in February.
This Christmas I decided to track this amazing pilot down but was very sad to see that he had a fatal accident recently.
Very sad that I will never get to meet the guy that inspired me.
R.I.P

There it is folks..

You know, I read that too. I think that pilot has joined our ranks here.... I could be mistaken, however.

Tyler radiated his "stoke" for flying.