Aviation sub-category? Bush flying, helicopters, etc?

[COAKXterra]

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From another thread. But landing on the west fork and Yanert glaciers last summer.

Less topography up here on the Slope. 😂

 

[crazysccrmd]

Who are you flying for?

The Army.

 

[COAKXterra]

The Army.

Well that looks like fun. 😂

Seen you guys zip through the pass a few times last year. Always fun pointing out to pax. 🤘🏼

 

[Ninelitetrip]

I've got a buddy I do some of my motorcycle riding with who flies SAR for Bristow. He pulled 21 years in Cobras and Apaches in the Army, retired CW4. I am a fixed-wing pilot myself. I was rated, then promptly walked away from it for well over a decade, and just recently got back into it. I am currently in the process of purchasing a Mooney, it's at the avionics shop as we speak, hemorrhaging money lol, but I am excited to get it back and fly with some new glass. I am using what's left of my GI to go back and get my Commercial ticket in the spring.

I want a tail dragger more than anything. I plan to eventually add either a Carbon Cub/Husky/Maule, alongside the M20, or possibly replace the Mooney down the road with a C185 Skywagon. I went with the fast travel plane first to get the wife to come along and benefit from the hordes of money being set on fire, and hopefully, in time, she'll get more on board with the entire thing, and that will make it much easier to convince her of getting a second one lol.

I support an aviation sub-chapter, and given the interest in flying by the owners here, I am surprised that it doesn't already exist.

Which model? I got to fly a 252 a bit. Great airplanes.

 

[Ninelitetrip]

Tail wheel endorsement completed! This endorsement has been a long time coming. I've wanted to fly tailwheel since 2008, super stoked to have this endorsement in the logbook. This backcountry tailwheel stuff is addictive. Now I am sitting over here looking at Super Cubs and Huskies lol. I might need to set up a GoFundMe lol.

Don't discount some of the older stuff like Taylorcraft, Aeronca, J3 cub, Citabria, C140, etc. or the oddball like the Texas Tail Dragger C150, C152, C172.

 

[Tex68w]

Which model? I got to fly a 252 a bit. Great airplanes.

I have time in a C, F, and a J. This is a E model with all of the J/201 speed mods.

Don't discount some of the older stuff like Taylorcraft, Aeronca, J3 cub, Citabria, C140, etc. or the oddball like the Texas Tail Dragger C150, C152, C172.

I have considered all of the above, including the Stinson 108 variants as well. Lot's of great, affordable options out there. I've even contemplated getting an older 182A straight tail and putting it on larger tires for a backcountry trike of sorts.

 

[Ninelitetrip]

Beaver on floats or fixed is fun, would like to try the turbine conversion someday.

And the Basler BT-67.

 

[COAKXterra]

One of my favorite things about flying in the backcountry…

Scenic snack/coffee spots. 😂

 

[crazysccrmd]

Knocked out a few hours in a super cub working on the tail wheel endorsement. For not having flown fixed wing in 19 years it wasn’t as bad as I anticipated. Definitely different flying a plane that small and light when you’re used to something ten times heavier with 25 times the horsepower.

 

[COAKXterra]

Knocked out a few hours in a super cub working on the tail wheel endorsement. For not having flown fixed wing in 19 years it wasn’t as bad as I anticipated. Definitely different flying a plane that small and light when you’re used to something ten times heavier with 25 times the horsepower.

Awesome! Where’d you get out to?

I hear ya. I have to go fly a contract in ND in Oct back in the R44. Certainly not the same as a Astar B3e that I’m flying this week 😂

 

[crazysccrmd]

Awesome! Where’d you get out to?

Just around Fairbanks. The take off and flying isn’t too much different than what I was used to years ago but the landing is definitely something to adjust to.

 

[burleyman]

Does this count? 400+ hours out of my 1000' pasture strip, power lines on one end. Mostly sunup sightseeing runs with coffee in a cupholder. Most frequent question from non-flyers was why didn't I buy a real airplane. Due to old age, vertigo and fear of heights those days are gone. My lessons were in a J3.

J3's, Super Cub, Top Cub, Highlander, various Experimentals, gliders, ultralights, and powered parachutes would visit. Fortunately, nobody piled up. Now there are very few flyers, even on weekends.