Backcountry Pilot

A rookie commercial pilot in Alaska takes on her first aircraft ferry job to the Lower 48, and has the adventure of a lifetime.

Canadian commercial pilot John Vandene ventures north of the Arctic Circle to the territory of Nunavut in a Beechcraft King Air, and gets a taste of true, remote, backcountry dotted by a sparse but rich native culture.

This is the year you’re going to do it...you’re going to take your southern acclimatized bush bird and take her North.

For the second time in less than a year, pilot Ted Waltman heads north to Alaska from the Lower 48, this time to ferry a newly-purchased Maule M5 from Pullman, WA for a busy friend.

A Skywagon pilot has a brush with the risks of high wind water operations, and ends up spending the night out.

A Colorado pilot checks off a lifelong bucket list item: Spending an entire summer in Alaska, flying for hire.

Two pilots embark on the journey to move a Super Cub from Houston, Texas to its proper new home on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska. This is the detailed travelogue with every choice and decision laid bare.

A bush pilot's memoir of his adventures in the late 1960's and early 70's detail a career full of wild escapades, near misses, and mishaps in the vast tundra and waterways of the Canadian Arctic, complemented by magically rich film photography of aircraft, landscapes, and native culture.