Alaska Bush Flying
9 members · 8 posts · Alaska
Off airport operations, floats, skis, and tundra tires. Strip conditions, gear setups, and weather that does not read its own forecast.
9 members · 8 posts · Alaska
Off airport operations, floats, skis, and tundra tires. Strip conditions, gear setups, and weather that does not read its own forecast.
Sofia Marchetti (pinned)
Strip conditions belong here with a date on them. A gravel bar report from three weeks ago is a rumor, not information.
Pete Halloran
Ferried into the interior last month and relearned something I had let slip. Down south a fuel stop is a decision. Up here it is the plan, and the alternate to the plan, and the reason you are carrying an extra six hours of daylight. I have never once regretted landing early up there.
Harriet Nakano
Flight service, lower 48, but Alaska is where our job still matters most and I wanted to say it here. Close your flight plans. Every single search we open that turns out to be somebody who landed fine and forgot has cost real hours that a real emergency somewhere else needed.
Sofia Marchetti
Talkeetna update. Water is up, so the usable stretch below the bend is about 300 feet shorter than it was in June. Plan accordingly and go look before you commit.
Pete Halloran
Ferried a 185 up from the lower 48 in September. Three days, four fuel stops that were not where the chart promised, and an afternoon on a ramp in the Yukon waiting for a valley to open. Best flying of my year and I would not do it again in October.
Mohamed Salih
Widebody freight into Anchorage, so a completely different world from most of this group, but it is the same weather. What I have learned from reading here is that you all make the go decision much earlier than we do, because you have to.
Sofia Marchetti
Tundra tire pressure argument, round nine. I run mine lower than most people think is reasonable and I have never regretted it on a rough strip. Convince me otherwise.
Oliver Trask
flatlander ag pilot lurking here. the low pass discipline in this group is the same thing i do over a field and its useful to see it written down by people flying somewhere with actual terrain. stealing the phrase the low pass is the entire flight