Easily one of the best GA back country flying channels out there. So glad I found your channel! Excellent videos and no doubt many new pilots are watching and learning!
I've been an aviation enthusiast since my first commercial flight at ten years old. I've always dreamed of getting my pilots license but unfortunately my financial situation hasn't allowed it yet. I started my ground school a few years ago but money got tight and had to quit going. I live vicariously through videos like this on the internet. Thanks for the upload =)
I took flight school first (not ground school). $150.00 per lesson... On my 13th hour (about 3 months later) he said "You want to Solo?" I did ......and realized you don't need a license to fly....I also realized that all I wanted to do was land...Landing is the most challenging.... and all he taught me was "short runway" landings...(1st turn-out only)....I must of landed like 100 times in my brothers 172....then my kids needed collage money. I miss flying.
Love your 182 backcountry videos. Your story and videos are part of the reason I bought my first airplane. A 182Q. After a year of ownership I couldn’t be more happy with my purchase. Thanks again for the great video and lessons shared
So, no shit. There I was, stationed at Fort Wainwright Alaska with 1-17th Infantry. One of my pals, we'll call him Staff Sergeant Z, was assigned to 4-123d Aviation as a crew chief on CH-47 Chinooks. He often invited me to join him on flights around Fairbanks. One day, the pilots were training dustoffs from small landing zones (LZ). We circled one sand bar over the Chena River. The crew decided to wave off because the sand bar was too small. We flew off and landed on some other larger LZs. At the end of the day, training complete, we flew back to Wainwright. We passed over the small LZ we had rejected earlier and saw two planes parked there. Balls, man. These guys have balls.
I found a KIT FOX 4 hidden in a Barn !! A BARN FINDER !! owner passed away and the daughter sold it to me CHEAP and it came with a trailer too !! I don't even fly, however I have been looking at this for three years, and then I FOUND IT !! thank you very much for the lessons. NOW WHAT ?? Tally HO !!
The take-offs in the first part of this video were ALL high-pucker-factor events. Extremely so. The C182 with it's vulnerable nose-wheel is questionable for back-country flying, it is a big fat lump of aluminum designed for paved (or at least firm) runways. It is actually amazing to see how well it did!
Of all the Idaho Backcountry airstrips I think the new strip at Marble Creek is one of the most challenging and you make it look routine. The Costa Rica strips are a whole different challenge. Thanks for showing how a true backcountry pilot loves the freedom and beauty flying.
Delightfully calm delivery, filled with countless words of wisdom. Only big men admit their mistakes and I imagine that you are an excellent instructor. Thoroughly enjoyed your video. Thanks so much, Bert (former B747 SFO)
I was in a cherokee 140 when the airspeed pitot tube got blocked in flight. The landing was on grass over trees just like yours, The difference between stall and float had to be felt. Very tricky. We walked away, but had to clear the tube and go up again, otherwise I dont hink we would have ever flown again.
As a low time pilot it's reassuring as well as not reassuring that someone so much experience makes mistakes. What I'm trying to say is I guess I have many of my own mistakes to look forward to
Thanks for sharing, I did land crash a couple times myself and watching your video made me feel that again... Taking off with a Piper Saratoga, 600 kg and 7 hours of fuel... Good times...
Plenty of routine beautiful bush plane take offs. On the bad landing a slip would have been thing to put you spot on. I fly a 210 out of short grass fields all the time. Getting a good feel for your plane and airspeeds is critical. Coming in very slow with power is the trick. The slower you get add slight more power- flying behind the curve. Great video. Its a lot of work getting these. Thanks 👍
As a fellow pilot, I've hit/clipped a tree on landing and at another time almost went into the trees because of density alt., over weight didnt help either. You learn alot I tell ya!! Thank you so much. Cessna 182 is one of the great planes.
I"m not a bush pilot, but you seem to have a lot of fast approaches. I think that a few of them could have used a good side slip to burn off height without building speed. You're quite lucky that your unusually soft field landings didn't damage your plane. Thanks for sharing.
Some of your "coordinated" turns are epic. You hit the rudder first and use the yaw coupling to help you roll into it, so the actually turn starts before you have ever rolled. Awesome to watch. Bold as brass though. Do that rudder kick a little too slow and....
Very interesting video, I was a towpilot, flying a 180 Bellanca Scout out of a 2000 ft grass strip with hydro wires at the end, towing a 2-seater glider with a 200 ft. rope. Never had trouble clearing the wires, I'm guessing the elevation in this video is much higher hence what seems to be longer than normal take-off rolls.
Thanks for posting. Some great vids and commentary. You're certainly pushing the limits and i'm sure the most experienced can learn from these clips. Safe skies! Cheers!
I was taught to fly by bush pilots and crop dusters. They had me landing everywhere aircraft really shouldn’t land. Their reasoning was that a plane cannot stay aloft forever. At some stage you must land. They taught me how to recognise overgrown ridge strips used by the dusters, creek beds, paddocks, washes and roads. They were bold pilots, they were old pilots with experience. Every day I thank the Lord for these guys teaching me to look for things, hold my nerve and to put into practice what they taught me. A group of Chief Fling Instructors just happened to be having a meeting at the small strip I landed at after a in air emergency with my wife on board, cockpit fire, smoke filled cabin, no instrument, no horizon, close by pilot kept contact and advised on wing position and course until smoke cleared. One of the CFIs was my examiner and after the hour long grilling they gave me, on our way out, he said very quietly, “good job. Regardless of what you think, the other guys were impressed with your radio work, skills and focus. After the interview we set about investigating the cause, disconnected faulty part, made the wiring safe we flew the bird home (hour flight’ with a wingman. My wife was offered a seat with wingman, but politely declined saying “I trust my husband and if he was serious about me flying home with John (wingman), I wouldn’t let him fly home. For the flight home we followed the old adage “if you can’t land on it, don’t fly over it”. We had a welcome party awaiting us at our home strip, got a clip over the ear from one of my instructors, then a slap on the back. I was know as the ‘go round king’ because due to injury many, many years ago my legs don’t work too well so circuits, wow, hundreds of them, 😂😂, but we got there in the end on merit not mateship. Sadly though the injury plus cancer plus other problems forced me out to the left seat. Late 60s now and still look to the air with love and respect. Thanks for posting.
The lesson I take from this is stick to the high powered fat tired tail dragging homebuilts like the Carbon Cub , Bearhawk Patrol , Kitfox long wing with high 180HP plus engines that get them airborne in a hundred feet and would be at 1000 ft before those Cessnas get off the ground .. Cessnas are low powered dogs for off field use .. Places where those planes were dangerously marginal are virtually nothing for a 180 HP Bearhawk Patrol
I took flight school first (not ground school). $150.00 per lesson... On my 13th hour (about 3 months later) he said "You want to Solo?" I did ......and realized you don't need a license to fly....I also realized that all I wanted to do was land...Landing is the most challenging.... and all he taught me was "short runway" landings...(1st turn-out only)....I must of landed like 100 times in my brothers 172....then my kids needed collage money. I miss flying.
0:42 was downright dangerous. He's lucky that sharp left turn didn't stall the wings as you can clearly see he starts to slip just before the props bits into the airstream again.
Nice video. Reminds me of flying the Skylane out of the old Hales Corners airport near the original EAA museum. Five bounces on landing was considered a greaser!
Some very beautiful videos here. Fantastic kind of flying. I sure hate to see those wonderful old Stensons put at risk like this. I love those airplanes and I'm sure their owners do also but I still hold my breath when I see them in back country videos.
At 9:37, we can see the dashboard, and the artificial horizon. Why is the blue part of the horizon upside down on this airplane ? How to understand and use it in IMC?
Great video! Real flying! We fixate so much on landings, but the TOs are where you get into real trouble. The soft ground in your videos (at altitude) made me most concerned. thumbs up!
Cessna 172 pilot here. I was wondering if he is still with us, too. IMO, too many unnecessary risks being taken, and often not a true, safe situational awareness of the hazardous environments he is flying in and out of.
Just curious, are these bad landings or is it what you would expect when you are trying to land on grass or a non traditional runway that I'm used to at an airport? To me its a great landing for what you are given but I dont know the expectation of a grass landing like this.
In 1949, E. Lee Hamilton mused...'Don't be a show-off. Never be too proud to turn back. There are old pilots and bold pilots, but no old. bold pilots'...
holy shit that sharp left turn in the canyon was really impressive
Yea...super scary
This looks like the edge of a nose down spin... starting at what looks like 25 feet. Low speed, lots of rudder, bank angle
I would have called that one both challenging and scary.
I thought for sure he would spin out. I am an old pilot but not a bold pilot.
Cessnas are pretty hard to get into a spin.
Easily one of the best GA back country flying channels out there. So glad I found your channel! Excellent videos and no doubt many new pilots are watching and learning!
I've been an aviation enthusiast since my first commercial flight at ten years old. I've always dreamed of getting my pilots license but unfortunately my financial situation hasn't allowed it yet. I started my ground school a few years ago but money got tight and had to quit going. I live vicariously through videos like this on the internet. Thanks for the upload =)
I took flight school first (not ground school). $150.00 per lesson... On my 13th hour (about 3 months later) he said "You want to Solo?" I did ......and realized you don't need a license to fly....I also realized that all I wanted to do was land...Landing is the most challenging.... and all he taught me was "short runway" landings...(1st turn-out only)....I must of landed like 100 times in my brothers 172....then my kids needed collage money.
I miss flying.
yes
Don’t give up keep trying penny by penny.
Don't let the dream die. You'll make it.
A tip for you: pay the one time charge for an online ground school and complete at your own pace. Once you pass the FAA exam its good for two years.
Thank you for sharing your learning experiences. Takes a man to admit when you did something wrong.
@@guitarfreak342 Exactly.
На других видео этот самолёт взлетает с двух метров разбега. А на этом видео он пробегает от 50 до 100 метров🤔
@@guitarfreak342 its a figure of speech
Love your 182 backcountry videos. Your story and videos are part of the reason I bought my first airplane. A 182Q. After a year of ownership I couldn’t be more happy with my purchase. Thanks again for the great video and lessons shared
So, no shit. There I was, stationed at Fort Wainwright Alaska with 1-17th Infantry. One of my pals, we'll call him Staff Sergeant Z, was assigned to 4-123d Aviation as a crew chief on CH-47 Chinooks. He often invited me to join him on flights around Fairbanks. One day, the pilots were training dustoffs from small landing zones (LZ). We circled one sand bar over the Chena River. The crew decided to wave off because the sand bar was too small. We flew off and landed on some other larger LZs. At the end of the day, training complete, we flew back to Wainwright. We passed over the small LZ we had rejected earlier and saw two planes parked there.
Balls, man. These guys have balls.
I found a KIT FOX 4 hidden in a Barn !! A BARN FINDER !! owner passed away and the daughter sold it to me CHEAP and it came with a trailer too !! I don't even fly, however I have been looking at this for three years, and then I FOUND IT !!
thank you very much for the lessons. NOW WHAT ?? Tally HO !!
The take-offs in the first part of this video were ALL high-pucker-factor events. Extremely so.
The C182 with it's vulnerable nose-wheel is questionable for back-country flying, it is a big fat lump of aluminum designed for paved (or at least firm) runways. It is actually amazing to see how well it did!
На других видео этот самолёт взлетает с двух метров разбега. А на этом видео он пробегает от 50 до 100 метров🤔
С двух метров только столы могут, и то, минимум для самолетов сейчас 6 метров@@Kopan-uy67iih
Of all the Idaho Backcountry airstrips I think the new strip at Marble Creek is one of the most challenging and you make it look routine. The Costa Rica strips are a whole different challenge. Thanks for showing how a true backcountry pilot loves the freedom and beauty flying.
Delightfully calm delivery, filled with countless words of wisdom.
Only big men admit their mistakes and I imagine that you are an excellent instructor. Thoroughly enjoyed your video.
Thanks so much,
Bert
(former B747 SFO)
I was in a cherokee 140 when the airspeed pitot tube got blocked in flight. The landing was on grass over trees just like yours, The difference between stall and float had to be felt. Very tricky. We walked away, but had to clear the tube and go up again, otherwise I dont hink we would have ever flown again.
As a low time pilot it's reassuring as well as not reassuring that someone so much experience makes mistakes. What I'm trying to say is I guess I have many of my own mistakes to look forward to
A good landing is one you can walk away from. A great landing is when you can use the airplane again!
Stupid..
@@outwiththem
You'd be fun at parties.
Profoundly old , corny and unclever saying .. and quite false .. a busted burning plane you walk away from is not a good landing
@@markdoan1472 Right.. It is like praising bad landings. I dont do it. As a CFi, it is stupid to praise bad landings..
Just ACCEPT the cliche for what it is....
Love it . Fly it to the ground . Use ground effects , maintain airspeed , check the gear after every landing .
Thanks for sharing, I did land crash a couple times myself and watching your video made me feel that again... Taking off with a Piper Saratoga, 600 kg and 7 hours of fuel... Good times...
Scared myself badly in an aircraft today. Trying to get mentally comfortable with it and own it. Thanks for these.
That red and white 182 has some amazing performance! Great video!
Thank you for your videos!! We are all still learning. Your transparency as you’re learning is invaluable to the rest of us!! Thank you!!
Plenty of routine beautiful bush plane take offs. On the bad landing a slip would have been thing to put you spot on. I fly a 210 out of short grass fields all the time. Getting a good feel for your plane and airspeeds is critical. Coming in very slow with power is the trick. The slower you get add slight more power- flying behind the curve. Great video. Its a lot of work getting these. Thanks 👍
Dropping the nose usually results in way to much speed, I could see it coming in the landing he almost cash in!
Bei manchen dieser Starts und Landungen bekommt man, beim Zusehen, eine "Gänsehaut". Da könnte Manches in`s Auge gehen.
Thanks. Working for my private checkride in two weeks!!
As a fellow pilot, I've hit/clipped a tree on landing and at another time almost went into the trees because of density alt., over weight didnt help either. You learn alot I tell ya!!
Thank you so much. Cessna 182 is one of the great planes.
Amazing capture ! Would you mind if I use part of this video, in one of my next episodes?Of course with a link back to your original video. Peace!
Yes , no problem.
I"m not a bush pilot, but you seem to have a lot of fast approaches. I think that a few of them could have used a good side slip to burn off height without building speed. You're quite lucky that your unusually soft field landings didn't damage your plane. Thanks for sharing.
Some of your "coordinated" turns are epic. You hit the rudder first and use the yaw coupling to help you roll into it, so the actually turn starts before you have ever rolled. Awesome to watch. Bold as brass though. Do that rudder kick a little too slow and....
To all the pilots featured here: way to stay in it. Fly it all theway up or down! Great skills, smooth controls and cool heads win the day
Thanks for the video. Good lessons and demonstrations. Some sketchy fields.
A couple of close calls in there. Thanks for posting Larry
Very interesting video, I was a towpilot, flying a 180 Bellanca Scout out of a 2000 ft grass strip with hydro wires at the end, towing a 2-seater glider with a 200 ft. rope. Never had trouble clearing the wires, I'm guessing the elevation in this video is much higher hence what seems to be longer than normal take-off rolls.
I was thinking the same thing. Not much lift being generated. Why?
5:08 This strip has been updated in msfs by the Bush League Legends, beautiful place.
Really enjoy your content. Thanks for sharing the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Thank you very much for these stunning images safe flying
Would really like to know some of these locations. With FS2020 out, we can just about try them for ourselves.
Wow! Thank you for sharing the scary and imperfect ones. Those are so helpful.
As always great flying. Must take time to clean the airplane after those muddy landings.
Who must? You? Larry? Please use subjects and objects of verbs.
5:35 Most awesome rough landing ever.
did you know where it is?
@@callsign-ny3kj It is in a bad dream. Sorry I don't know. Maybe the channel owner will respond.
@@bman3020 got it: goo.gl/maps/45zxwqWBZDKFPWBn7
Was it just me, or could you hear the passenger screaming during the landing?
Really impressive take-off at 1:16.
This is the most educational flying video, I've ever seen! Thanks for posting 📫👍.
Really nicely narrated and edited. What a great vid. Thanks for posting
Thanks for posting. Some great vids and commentary. You're certainly pushing the limits and i'm sure the most experienced can learn from these clips. Safe skies! Cheers!
Why do they continue to climb with flaps down?
Vx and Vy are flaps UP procedures established by factory test.
In the 70s it was nice to have an after market turbo on the 182. 👍👍👍😎 30" to 15,000 ft.
I've taken off and landed on gravel bars like that up in Alaska.
Thank you, I enjoined every min and shared with others who also enjoyed it!
I was taught to fly by bush pilots and crop dusters. They had me landing everywhere aircraft really shouldn’t land. Their reasoning was that a plane cannot stay aloft forever. At some stage you must land. They taught me how to recognise overgrown ridge strips used by the dusters, creek beds, paddocks, washes and roads. They were bold pilots, they were old pilots with experience.
Every day I thank the Lord for these guys teaching me to look for things, hold my nerve and to put into practice what they taught me. A group of Chief Fling Instructors just happened to be having a meeting at the small strip I landed at after a in air emergency with my wife on board, cockpit fire, smoke filled cabin, no instrument, no horizon, close by pilot kept contact and advised on wing position and course until smoke cleared.
One of the CFIs was my examiner and after the hour long grilling they gave me, on our way out, he said very quietly, “good job. Regardless of what you think, the other guys were impressed with your radio work, skills and focus.
After the interview we set about investigating the cause, disconnected faulty part, made the wiring safe we flew the bird home (hour flight’ with a wingman. My wife was offered a seat with wingman, but politely declined saying “I trust my husband and if he was serious about me flying home with John (wingman), I wouldn’t let him fly home. For the flight home we followed the old adage “if you can’t land on it, don’t fly over it”. We had a welcome party awaiting us at our home strip, got a clip over the ear from one of my instructors, then a slap on the back.
I was know as the ‘go round king’ because due to injury many, many years ago my legs don’t work too well so circuits, wow, hundreds of them, 😂😂, but we got there in the end on merit not mateship.
Sadly though the injury plus cancer plus other problems forced me out to the left seat.
Late 60s now and still look to the air with love and respect.
Thanks for posting.
great video as usual but the best part was at 13min 19 seconds, you've got me hooked now, great marketing... lol
Man you are one helluva good (and brave pilot) bush pilot.
Incredible!
Y’all are crazy.
The lesson I take from this is stick to the high powered fat tired tail dragging homebuilts like the Carbon Cub , Bearhawk Patrol , Kitfox long wing with high 180HP plus engines that get them airborne in a hundred feet and would be at 1000 ft before those Cessnas get off the ground .. Cessnas are low powered dogs for off field use .. Places where those planes were dangerously marginal are virtually nothing for a 180 HP Bearhawk Patrol
5:35 that was a scary approach and landing
I took flight school first (not ground school). $150.00 per lesson... On my 13th hour (about 3 months later) he said "You want to Solo?" I did ......and realized you don't need a license to fly....I also realized that all I wanted to do was land...Landing is the most challenging.... and all he taught me was "short runway" landings...(1st turn-out only)....I must of landed like 100 times in my brothers 172....then my kids needed collage money.
I miss flying.
I have heard it said that any landing you can walk away from is a good landing (have not read all comments; sorry if I'm duplicating).
Man that landing was wild.
Sme of these take-offs are really scary!
About the only time people know they reached their limit is after the crash and that applies to all endeavors, planes, cars, and boats.
Really good. Makes my scary experiences in a 172 and 182 seem really tame!
0:42 was downright dangerous. He's lucky that sharp left turn didn't stall the wings as you can clearly see he starts to slip just before the props bits into the airstream again.
Morning what would be your first thing to make you decide not to fly the day. Weather wise what do you look at first? Wind or clouds
Nice video. Reminds me of flying the Skylane out of the old Hales Corners airport near the original EAA museum. Five bounces on landing was considered a greaser!
Good video! Who makes the heads up display (HUD) for the stall warning display as shown at 14:25?
Seams that they all won their licence during a gambling game
That first landing...Holy 💩!
Some very beautiful videos here. Fantastic kind of flying.
I sure hate to see those wonderful old Stensons put at risk like this. I love those airplanes and I'm sure their owners do also but I still hold my breath when I see them in back country videos.
Just wondering why a side slip is not used in some of those landings.
Thanks so much, and for the comments lol ✈️🌌
At 9:37, we can see the dashboard, and the artificial horizon. Why is the blue part of the horizon upside down on this airplane ? How to understand and use it in IMC?
Great video! Real flying! We fixate so much on landings, but the TOs are where you get into real trouble. The soft ground in your videos (at altitude) made me most concerned. thumbs up!
Great self critique. Good information.
Where is the last airstrip in the video? The muddy one? Absolutely stunning country.
Lovely production thanks mate
Where or what country is that Cessna tail ti-abe flying? I wonder because that tail is from Costa Rica and we don't have snow here 😁
I’m sorry but I would be very hesitant to climb in an airplane with you sir
A power upgrade to the stock 182 O-470 would be comforting and improve safety. fun vid.
That is some seriously intense video.
Great video!
Great video, I have been watching Mike Patey's channel, less power is more challenging, I respect your flight chops.
as an experience bush pilot i have known many pilots that i've seen doing what your doing an they are no longer in this world ! good luck
Cessna 172 pilot here. I was wondering if he is still with us, too. IMO, too many unnecessary risks being taken, and often not a true, safe situational awareness of the hazardous environments he is flying in and out of.
Where was that last location departing off a cliff over mountains ?
2:48 co-ordinates? (for flight sim! )
Some nice recovery’s ,muddy mess to land in . Must be a bitch to clean it .
Just curious, are these bad landings or is it what you would expect when you are trying to land on grass or a non traditional runway that I'm used to at an airport? To me its a great landing for what you are given but I dont know the expectation of a grass landing like this.
Thanks for sharing. That landing/skid was scary!! No problemo, live and learn.
Thank you for sharing. Excellent videos, very humble.
Nice 3 point take off!!
Terrific video and honesty. Valuable site to learn from. Thank u
Was all the filming done by someone operating a drone? Beautiful work there.
6:15 The guy on the porch is just like, "Well just park that fucker anywhere, bub."
That second guy needs a little more motor before he tries that again, unless he only wants to do it one more time.
I think most pilots would have crashed on that landing at ski jump. Your skill really took over on that one.
Wow I was holding my breath on most of these.
In 1949, E. Lee Hamilton mused...'Don't be a show-off. Never be too proud to turn back. There are old pilots and bold pilots, but no old. bold pilots'...
Some of these had me tensing my stomach and using body English to control the airplane 🤣🤣
Brings back memories!!
Where is this place? Sooo beautiful.
It's amazing how many bad landings start with bad decisions...
Wow, just awesome. Thanks for sharing the good, bad and ugly!
Excellent ! Thank you for sharing.
Brilliant video
This is an amazing video. Thank you for sharing.
Landing with all those small rocks ,its a wonder that one does not get caught up in the prop .Phew
huh? the prop is ahead of the gear, so itd be pretty hard to get a rock in that prop, due to physics