Bill Rusk
BENEFACTOR
Sandpoint, Idaho
Folks
When I first flew my Cub (on floats) to Southeast Alaska in 2016 I had what I still think is one of the scariest experiences of my life, and I've had a few close calls over the years. I was heading to the Eagle River/Lake cabin. I was at about 1000' AGL entering a river drainage and I looked UP and saw a set of power lines ABOVE me. You just do NOT expect to see power lines at that altitude. It would be Soooo easy to plow into these lines because you are not looking for power lines at that altitude. They are marked on the sectional and they have marker balls on them but it still scares me every time I see them. That same power line is at the other end of the drainage where it hits the Behm Canal, although not quite as high as the set on the NW side, these lines are WAAYYY up there and almost as scary. If you are going to fly a floatplane in SE Alaska you better know where these suckers are. I've written about this before in my "Floats to Alaska" threads.
Here is an EXCELLENT video of how they put this power line in. It is a little long at 42 minutes but it is REALLY REALLY interesting. It took a massive amount of engineering, fortitude, innovation, money, and work. There is a lot of helicopter flying and beautiful SE Alaska scenery in the video as well. This is one of the coolest videos I've seen in a long time. There are amazing people in the world that can make something like this happen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ygUlCERrug
Hope you enjoy it.
Bill
When I first flew my Cub (on floats) to Southeast Alaska in 2016 I had what I still think is one of the scariest experiences of my life, and I've had a few close calls over the years. I was heading to the Eagle River/Lake cabin. I was at about 1000' AGL entering a river drainage and I looked UP and saw a set of power lines ABOVE me. You just do NOT expect to see power lines at that altitude. It would be Soooo easy to plow into these lines because you are not looking for power lines at that altitude. They are marked on the sectional and they have marker balls on them but it still scares me every time I see them. That same power line is at the other end of the drainage where it hits the Behm Canal, although not quite as high as the set on the NW side, these lines are WAAYYY up there and almost as scary. If you are going to fly a floatplane in SE Alaska you better know where these suckers are. I've written about this before in my "Floats to Alaska" threads.
Here is an EXCELLENT video of how they put this power line in. It is a little long at 42 minutes but it is REALLY REALLY interesting. It took a massive amount of engineering, fortitude, innovation, money, and work. There is a lot of helicopter flying and beautiful SE Alaska scenery in the video as well. This is one of the coolest videos I've seen in a long time. There are amazing people in the world that can make something like this happen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ygUlCERrug
Hope you enjoy it.
Bill
