River Flying Video.

 

Looks like a Piper Supercub ? would be the only way to fly AK low and slow

 

Thank you that was a great clip. There is nothing like flying low and slow and what great country side . I took a flight 3 years ago up the St. Lawrence over the Thousand Islands ,Montreal , Quebec all the way up to Gaspe from Mansfield ,Ohio and it was one of my most remember able flights . After Gaspe I flew south over New Brunswick to Prince Edwards Island and then south to Nova Scotia and it was all low and fairly slow in my Cessna 172 . My next stop was Saint John than Bangor , Maine , Rockland and some great sea food and then down the coast over to New York state and to a great air show called Old Rhinebeck . I took off from there went down the Hudson past West Point and then headed back to Mansfield . I spent a little over two weeks living in a tent and loving every minute of it . There are some things you just can not see any other way but in a small plane .

 

John Halter, Mansfield??? I used to ski @ Snow Trails back in the 70's before I moved to Alaska. Sounds like your trip was nice, you are right low and slow are good kinda like traveling off the interstates.

 

Oooo i cant wait to get my nose healed and start flying again.....

 

It has been a few years but I have skied there also . A good friend of mine built a nice grass strip down by Butler that I like to fly into . I live out side of Mansfield on a farm real close to the little town of Olivesburg . My dream has always been to visit Alaska someday and I hope it comes true real soon . I did get close a few times traveling up the Canadian Rocky's but ran out of time . I was thinking when I hit Glacier it just can't get better then this and the more north I went the more it proved me wrong .

 

What does your nose have to do with your flying , are you on meds ? What do you fly ? Thinking about it the pressure difference would be a real pain in the head if you got some altitude .

 

Have done some river flying in Quebec on a variety of floatplanes. Landed in the St. Lawrence river many times. Some rivers I have flown up (& down) are quite narrow and that can be a challenge when flying below the treetops. You have not lived until you have flown north in a floatplane, landed on a remote lake and fished, either from the floats or from a small boat, then taken the catch to shore, cooked and eaten them all within an hour. It is really something to fly into a lake that is a very long way from any other human (and civilization) and enjoy the solitude and the sounds of nature.

 

I never got my float plane rating , they are not much good in Ohio , we have only two lakes we can land on in the whole state ,Grand Lake St. Marys and Lake Erie . When I flew over New Brunswick all I could think about was having a set of floats on . There are so many lakes and places that I could have dropped in on and that can be seen no other way , it was just amazing . You mentioned another one of the items on my to do list , fly into a lake and catch some fish and cook them up over a camp fire . It sure is great that we still have so much vast wilderness in this world yet . I got to admit flying over some of it in my old 64 172 Cessna had me a little nervous a few times . If I had to do a emergency landing there are not may options when your flying on wheels instead of floats up there . It was a trip I will remember the rest of my life and would love to repeat any time . It does look like my wife and I will be heading up that way next summer again but in a motor home , not the same thing by a long shot .

 

Go read this thread to see what my nose has to do with it...
I only fly the small things. I have about 200 hours in single engine cessna's and pipers, and about 50 hours in a Robinson R22 and 40 hours in a Bell 47...I'm gonna go back to flying the airplanes once my nose heals. I had one flight that I didn't realize I had an ear infection...everything went fine till I started descending to my destination, the pressure started to build up in my ears and it was sooooo painful...I could hardly hear the tower giving me instructions once I got on the ground! I will never forget that feeling..I'm just glad I didn't burst an eardrum! My nose fix should help that I hope!
I don't think I will go back to helicopters...honestly they just scared the crap out of me.

 

Sorry I did read that just did not put the two together , hope your well on the road to recovery .
I have never tried a helicopter and frankly they scare the hell out of me to . Just to many moving parts and things to go wrong in my book . I had a guy tell me about the Jesus nut that holds the rotor blade on and that was enough for me . He told me they call it that because when it comes off all you got time for is one Oh Jesus .
All my flying is single engine land and some ultralight time when I was not thinking clearly . I do need to admit for low and slow the ultralight is the way to go but safety is right out the window . My EAA chapter has lost 3 members in them so far , one guy was a ex military test pilot and had a job flying a 747 , the other private pilot and the third learned on his own . All three were put down as pilot error but it was enough for me to learn to stay away and I now stick with certified . Some day I hope to maybe build a RV 10 down the road when my ship comes in , another dream I guess .

 

I think my nose is getting back to where its supposed to be! I can still breathe out of it anyways!!
I started out by teaching myself to fly with an ultralight, but after actually flying a real plane, I couldn't stand flying the UL anymore because it scared me so much...I would almost say that it scared me as much as helicopters did...I guess it just takes the right kind of person to fly a whirlybird and I flew them as much as I ever want too. I do miss the fact that everyone stopped in their tracks to watch the helicopter land, but after a few close calls, I realized that everyone would probably stop in their tracks to watch a helicopter crash too!
My dream right now is to get a Rans S-18...I think thats what it is anyways...one of my buddies has one, and its a pretty sturdy looking two-seater ultralight! I guess its classified as a sport plane now, but with a ballistic chute, I imagine those things would be pretty safe and fun to fly!

 

They say that helicopters don't actually "fly" ... they just beat the air into submission .

PISTOL

 

My first airplane flight examiner said this when I told him I was going to helicopters after I get my airplane license: "Helicopters only fly because they are so ugly that the ground repels them!"

 

Here's another one for the aviators out there: Float Planes - Up Close.