Hi friends
I am really happy and glad to read your comments.
Because I do not like to bear the responsibility of a another person flying with me in my way, I have to enjoy the moments alone. So at least afterward showing my adventures to similar people like me, makes me glad.
But that kind of flying I am doing, is done every day by professionals, like guides, airline pilots etc. Landing off airport, crossing water straights, flying in clouds, they are doing it for a living. I know pilots they have 15000 to 25000 hours bush flying experience. These are my heroes and examples. I cannot “compete” with them! Even I am able to land my “ton-cub” within a distance of 300 feet and take off in the same. But on my voyages I pretty much look for 500 feet and up landing spots, with some exceptions
It cost you 4000,--$ to get a cub out by helicopter and that only over a distance of 30 miles and it will become a fortune to recover it out of remote places in Canada. The last time the chopper had cost me 7500,--$, but the repair was only 4500,--$
How often did I make 15-20 flybys and still did feel uncomfortable to land, so I looked for something else, you’ll find always ever. But you ran for sure into some problems to press ton-cub into a particular spot, because it is good fishing, hunting or it is a very nice camping or scenery place, my own experience. And how often did I pee almost into my pants, because of sudden situations I encountered. What did a friend once said to me: “What is an experienced pilot? It is a pilot who survived his experiences!”. How true! And how often, when I learned flying in the bush, the bullet missed me barely.
For instance 18 years ago, I got pressed by a firm ceiling at Igloo, on a flight to Anchorage, into the river channel of the Chulitna River. Cruising right in this channel, seeing black and white spots zooming up below and above me, so ducks and swans, finally I saw a solid rock wall in front of me. The river turned 90° in a kind of steep canyon to the left. I was lucky, having a little depression on the right side on the upper surface, with a ceiling of barely 20 feet. I went up to make a 180° turn with one wing in the clouds and with the other almost chopping off the treetops. Three miles back the channel was wide with good gravel bars, so I landed here. When I stepped out I almost felt on the ground, so weak and shivering were my legs! THAT was a lesson I learned, having always ever a way out, either that famous 180° turn, a landing site below, a depression, a valley or what ever. And never ever let you get pressed in certain situations. You HAVE all the time available you need. Let the friends or who ever it is wait! Your situation is first place!
Think ahead AND do not pinch with fuel!! Many accidents are heavily connected with running out or being short of fuel.
Think about hangar flying. This is a pretty macho place, but you’ll get a lot of informal information here. Because these are mostly pretty macho, understandable because the pilot had survived his experience :lol: , you have to take it with a big grain of salt! But still, where else do you want to get informal infos?