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...

The Piper PA-18 has long been the standard for light STOL performance, but the new age of lightweight 180hp Cubs like the CubCrafters Carbon Cub are escalating performance expectations. Patrick Romano wanted to find out how much performance could be squeezed out of a stock 150hp Super Cub without dropping money on an engine upgrade.

It's been more than a year since the last update on the innovative prototype DoubleEnder. Ride along in the cockpit with designer Alec Wild as we're treated to a demo ride in this forward-thinking twin-engine bush plane.