Backcountry Pilot

[bigdawg offline]

Here is a cool video I found on YouTube, thought this would be an appropriate place to post it.

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[Flat Country Pilot offline]

Yeah, that's pretty cool

What make aircraft is he flying?

There is a similar video that shows the expression on the pilots face, not finding it right now.

Bill

[a64pilot offline]

I think it's an RV, which one I'n not sure. Been wrong before though.

[mr scout offline]

RV-4 Looks like its in Texas

[Hammer offline]

Looks like its in Texas

I thought the same thing when I saw the size of the guy's neck.

[Zzz]

I thought it was a Shar-pei flying the plane.

[Flyguy offline]

Several dumb pilots have been killed doing just this! Just 40 miles up the lake from where I live, an experienced aerobatic pilot was flying, really low, up the Sabine River in his Christen Eagle. He thought he had it all figured out but he clipped a wing on some trees, crashed into the river and killed himself and his passenger!

[GumpAir offline]

Several dumb pilots have been killed doing just this!

And a whole lot of non-pilots have died in their sleep from strokes or heart attacks, never knowing the thrill or feeling of freedom one gets while flying low down a long, beautiful river.

I know what my choice is for ways to go....

Gump

[a64pilot offline]

Well down south here, we would do the same thing in helicopters. The biggest concern was if you met traffic coming the other way. We would look for aligators on the Pee river in Alabama. That is really it's name. No sh** creek though
In Germany, we would do a Marne river "cruise". It was neat to look up at the tourists as you flew by.
River flying is fun, just know exactly where you are at, and where the wires are.

[Savannah-Tom offline]

The FBO in Albany Or told me about a guy that used to fly the Willamette that way. He got killed when he hit a cable going across the river. It still looks like fun, though.
tom

[Zzz]

Cables can get even the most experienced flyers... this is prob one experience he wasn't looking forward to though.

[Splashpilot offline]

The rule we use in my flying job is,....................

If it looks like the fuselage will fit,....... the wings will usually follow

[Hammer offline]

The rule we use in my flying job is,....................

If it looks like the fuselage will fit,....... the wings will usually follow

Doesn't that cause a lot of hangar rash?

[snoopydoc offline]

I thought it was a Shar-pei flying the plane.

Rarely do I laugh out loud reading this forum anymore; I just worry... so thanks

[hotrod180 offline]

The rule we use in my flying job is,....................

If it looks like the fuselage will fit,....... the wings will usually follow

Kinda reminds me of a cat using his whiskers to gauge if his body will fit into a mouse-hole.....

[onceAndFutr_alaskaflyer offline]

Fly 5agl or 500agl - anything between can get you killed

[Renegade offline]

The altitude that worries me the most around here is 800 -1000 feet. At this altitude the towers that can get you are mostly below the horizon and very hard to see, anything below 500 allows you to see them against the horizon, anything higher and your above 90% of them.

Just my 2 cents