Backcountry Pilot

A true modern day bush pilot working a Pilatus Porter in the mountains of Papua Indonesia gives us a glimpse into what he considers to be the ultimate pilot's life.

Pilot and author Garrett Fisher touches upon his flirtations with mountain flying, a voyeur of the massive 14,000+ peaks of the Rockies that he now calls home after a journey west from North Carolina in the 100hp PA-11 his grandfather restored.

Relive a harrowing tale of crashing an Aviat Husky in southern Montana after a balked off-airport landing.

Halfway around the world from the usual bush flying haunts lies the isolated Scandinavian island of Iceland: the "land of ice and fire", so named for its mountains, glaciers, and volcanoes. This is just as likely a place to explore by bushplane as any in Alaska or Canada. Super Cub pilot Arnar Thor Emilsson takes us on a photographic journey through the northern paradise he calls home.