Backcountry Pilot

Intro post featuring the Super Cub

I was planning to fly to Alaska on the Alaska Highway, but got talking with a friend Loni a couple days ago and learned he was headed up with his friend Mark, both in supercubs a couple days after I was planning to go. So it was decided to be a caravan of three...

The new Firman pod is on, and now I just need more junk to stuff in it...

On the Kenai peninsula...

There was a moose on a gravel bar nearby, but a couple of approaches to the nearest landing spot proved too tight for me to get in for a landing. Fortunately, this bar did not disappoint as the sunset progressed...

Saturday morning was gorgeous, and good weather was promised for the weekend, so I headed south from Anchorage. Here, the Homer spit on the south end of the Kenai peninsula...

An Alaskan charter pilot makes a difficult decision to go around after a complex wind situation puts him long and fast at the Sparrevohn Long Range Radar Station.

A father and son strike out for Copper Creek in a '47 Stinson, on the hunt for Dall Sheep, and end up learning a few lessons about aircraft performance..and human performance.