when after 7 days you walk 12 miles back off the glacier to the terminus lake to find the back half of the floats of the airplane submerged in the lake and say" you've done it this time ollie".

...when Coyote Ugly sits up and takes notice!

When your whole body is trembling like an eartquake and you are hoping you brought spare underware to replace the one's you just filled by scaring the SH!T out of yourself!!

...when you are on flare all you hear is this pounding noise..it's your heart because you have stopped breathing...followed closely by "OH SHIIIIT!"

Not back country but.

"You know you did a crappy job of fuel planning when you have to call the tripple A".

Tim

I knew you intrepid aviators would not disappoint ... great stuff here people; don't stop now

(And no way I can't share some of these with an audience that I know will appreciate them; anyone object if I credit the board and just do a list of some of the more "poignant" ones in the next UBCP Newsletter? Thanks all....Susan aka Flywriter)

"those rocks looked a lot smaller from the air"

when its dark and you discover the weeds are 4 feet tall,there is a tractor in the way,your co- pilot is on his 5th Jack&Coke,the guy you are supposed to meet says get ouutta there as fast as you can when you call him to ask where he is,you hop back in ,punch it as about 5 military trucks are on the way with very bright lights and it is VERY dark,and your takeoff checklist consist of "you remember where that tractor was?"

These aren't back country strips, but I've landed in fields where I've gotten stuck, I went through a couple of fences, I've been afraid to leave the airplane because I have had to guard the plane from cows, horses, and one camel, all in different places. I had cops chasing me after I landed on a road. I got away. And those have all been in Ohio.

patrol guy wrote:These aren't back country strips, but I've landed in fields where I've gotten stuck, I went through a couple of fences, I've been afraid to leave the airplane because I have had to guard the plane from cows, horses, and one camel, all in different places. I had cops chasing me after I landed on a road. I got away. And those have all been in Ohio.

OHIO! Man, you should live in Pennsylvania!

When after you land, you notice a small sage brush, caught in your elevator. Just sitting up there like it had grown there.

When you land, and your griz chasing/black bear treeing four legged copilot jumps out and spots the biggest bear he's ever seen and decides the chase is on.

Only problem is, this bear is white, doesn't know to run from anything, and sees old Hoser as Meals-On-Wheels headed straight for lunchtime.

Gump

You ask for some help to move your plane away from the end of the strip, because that black bull looks like he needs something to rub on.

You hear "Dualing Banjos" playing off in the woods??

patrol guy wrote:.......and one camel,.............And those have all been in Ohio.

Camels in Ohio? Must be "mid-east" Ohio!

when your GPS texts you "where in hell are u??

when you land and yourself why am i here

when you phone Wup for a new baby bushwheel and he scolds you "all you bush monkeys think tail wheel matinence is looking for it in the bushes" and he's right thats exactly what happined!

When you slick the landing, you get out, the first thing you see and hear is Old Coyotey playing "Dualing Banjos" on his mandolin, and watching some woman taking a bath in a stock tank!

When u land a C206 on a moutain side, up hill on stright skis and cut the power and u start sliding backwards. The only time I wish I had a tail wheel Lesson learned, turn sideways before cutting the engine.

Got it restarted before any thing bad happened.