Newpilot032586 wrote:Sounds good. I just bought 4 acres down the street from you by Morgan's landing. I'll PM you sometime, I'd love to meet up.

Look forward to it.

From the Homer trip.


https://vimeo.com/168150928

One of hundreds of gravel bars on the way to Seward




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Phil, you had a chance to wet a fly?

Dang, you need to get out of the Seattle suburbs and get on the other side of the range were the only thing you here in your headsets is you talking to yourself every once in a while to make sure they are still are on.
( kind of a joke). shoot me a pm if there is a chance you will be in the bush in the next week or so. Greg

soyAnarchisto wrote:Phil, you had a chance to wet a fly?

Went ocean fishing with akgreg yesterday, but haven't fly fished yet. Still moving in (read spending lots of money on stuff).

Struck out for a couple of hours this morning.



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Landed this gravel bar to get the bugs off the camera lens. Didn't stay clean for very long.


Newpilot032586 joined me for a scouting mission. We took a lunch break here. Thanks for the lunch Jordan.

And the video from yesterday



https://vimeo.com/168676436

Launched this morning to go work gravel bars, but by the time I reached them the the air was really raunchy.



https://vimeo.com/168874679

Resurrection River

Was out scouting gravel bars today to go fishing, bought my salmon fly rod/reel, flies etc. Was near the beach so played a little on the way back.



https://vimeo.com/169475426

A little bar hopping, plus my first landing to the south at my place over @100' trees. Not aggressive, and with 3 notches of flaps.



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Barnstormer wrote:A little bar hopping, plus my first landing to the south at my place over @100' trees. Not aggressive, and with 3 notches of flaps.

https://vimeo.com/171941020

Looks like a good day! Beats working!

A little Flightseeing yesterday.



https://vimeo.com/172128641

If anyone checks my place to see if I'm home, I moved the SQ2 to the north end of the strip.



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My first glacier landing



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Barnstormer wrote:My first glacier landing



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That's terrific Phil! Nice work

-DP

Barnstormer wrote:My first glacier landing



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Sweet! Hope your schedule is open Wednesday!! [emoji927][emoji927]

Nice picture Phil. What's the name of the glacier? Looks a little slushy? Be interested in a few comments, please, on how you assessed the area & surface before landing.

Being brand new to Alaska a lot of the places friends have shared with me with the understanding I don’t disclose their locations.

As far as what to look for when landing a glacier, I’ve done it once now. I don’t yet know what I’m doing and I’m no where near the point of knowing what I don’t know. Perhaps by the end of Summer with 40 or 50 glacier landings under my belt I will at least know what I don’t know. Then I might feel comfortable sharing what I’ve learned to that point. The slush is remaining snow, not melted ice. Most of the glaciers I’ve looked at still have too much snow on them. A couple of more weeks perhaps.

The photo below is the top of a mountain. This is the least steep section (take a look directly behind the plane), go another plane length forward and it falls away similar to what you don't see behind the plane - but with a couple of levels of benches you might hit before flying under control - so getting on is easy (relatively speaking) compared to getting off which takes some planning.

The thing about landing these kinds of places is you can’t attempt to flare the landing-not even slightly. Do so and you’ll wreck the plane. I fly directly at the mountain and as I get close enough I transition to a climb and I adjust the angle of climb so it’s just a little less then the angle of the surface I’m landing on and fly the plane onto the mountain at my predetermined spot. Intersect the mountain too high up and you won’t be able to get slowed enough to stop on the top, INITIATE A GO AROUND IMMEDIATELY BEFORE CRESTING, don’t try and save the landing.

Many thanks to my friends for inviting me along on explorations and sharing great places to see and to sharpen existing skills and gain new ones.