Love your 182 backcountry videos. Your story and videos are part of the reason I bought my first airplane. A 182Q. After a year of ownership I couldn’t be more happy with my purchase. Thanks again for the great video and lessons shared

Thank you for your videos!! We are all still learning. Your transparency as you’re learning is invaluable to the rest of us!! Thank you!!

I've been an aviation enthusiast since my first commercial flight at ten years old. I've always dreamed of getting my pilots license but unfortunately my financial situation hasn't allowed it yet. I started my ground school a few years ago but money got tight and had to quit going. I live vicariously through videos like this on the internet. Thanks for the upload =)

holy shit that sharp left turn in the canyon was really impressive

Thanks for sharing, I did land crash a couple times myself and watching your video made me feel that again... Taking off with a Piper Saratoga, 600 kg and 7 hours of fuel... Good times...

Thanks for posting. Some great vids and commentary. You're certainly pushing the limits and i'm sure the most experienced can learn from these clips. Safe skies! Cheers!

Of all the Idaho Backcountry airstrips I think the new strip at Marble Creek is one of the most challenging and you make it look routine. The Costa Rica strips are a whole different challenge. Thanks for showing how a true backcountry pilot loves the freedom and beauty flying.

Thank you for sharing your learning experiences. Takes a man to admit when you did something wrong.

That red and white 182 has some amazing performance! Great video!

Thank you, I enjoined every min and shared with others who also enjoyed it!

Really enjoy your content. Thanks for sharing the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Thank you for sharing. Excellent videos, very humble.

Terrific video and honesty. Valuable site to learn from. Thank u

As a fellow pilot, I've hit/clipped a tree on landing and at another time almost went into the trees because of density alt., over weight didnt help either. You learn alot I tell ya!! Thank you so much. Cessna 182 is one of the great planes.

Really enjoy your videos mate cheers.

Well done. Great job keep up the great work!

Beautifully done video. Thank you. I subscribed!

Always educational, interesting and enjoyable. Thanks.

Lovely production thanks mate

Thank you very much for these stunning images safe flying

Thanks for sharing. That landing/skid was scary!! No problemo, live and learn.

This is the most educational flying video, I've ever seen! Thanks for posting 📫👍.

This is an amazing video. Thank you for sharing.

Delightfully calm delivery, filled with countless words of wisdom. Only big men admit their mistakes and I imagine that you are an excellent instructor. Thoroughly enjoyed your video. Thanks so much, Bert (former B747 SFO)

Wow! Thank you for sharing the scary and imperfect ones. Those are so helpful.

Really good. Makes my scary experiences in a 172 and 182 seem really tame!

Awesome vid, thanks for posting

Really nicely narrated and edited. What a great vid. Thanks for posting

Awesome videos! You guys are great!

Love all these videos! You are an amazing pilot! Peace Rolf

Great video! Real flying! We fixate so much on landings, but the TOs are where you get into real trouble. The soft ground in your videos (at altitude) made me most concerned. thumbs up!

Thank you for a great video.

Great video, I have been watching Mike Patey's channel, less power is more challenging, I respect your flight chops.

A couple of close calls in there. Thanks for posting Larry

This was one of your best videos!

Scared myself badly in an aircraft today. Trying to get mentally comfortable with it and own it. Thanks for these.

Thanks. Working for my private checkride in two weeks!!

Incredible! Y’all are crazy.

Wow, just awesome. Thanks for sharing the good, bad and ugly!

Excellent ! Thank you for sharing.

I was in a cherokee 140 when the airspeed pitot tube got blocked in flight. The landing was on grass over trees just like yours, The difference between stall and float had to be felt. Very tricky. We walked away, but had to clear the tube and go up again, otherwise I dont hink we would have ever flown again.

Thanks for the video. Good lessons and demonstrations. Some sketchy fields.

This is excellent.. Great stuff!

Love the content bro! Wow. Thank u

Nice video. Reminds me of flying the Skylane out of the old Hales Corners airport near the original EAA museum. Five bounces on landing was considered a greaser!

Brings back memories!!

Thank you for this nice video!!!

WOW great video thanks made my day 😀👍

Thanks for sharing. Fly safe.

Thank you very much 4 sharing!! :))

Nice video! Thank you!

Great video!

Superb video !!!!!

Brilliant video

Great self critique. Good information.

Great video! Liked the music.

Love it . Fly it to the ground . Use ground effects , maintain airspeed , check the gear after every landing .

great video as usual but the best part was at 13min 19 seconds, you've got me hooked now, great marketing... lol

Really cool job!

Plenty of routine beautiful bush plane take offs. On the bad landing a slip would have been thing to put you spot on. I fly a 210 out of short grass fields all the time. Getting a good feel for your plane and airspeeds is critical. Coming in very slow with power is the trick. The slower you get add slight more power- flying behind the curve. Great video. Its a lot of work getting these. Thanks 👍

GREAT VIDEO!

A good landing is one you can walk away from. A great landing is when you can use the airplane again!

Some very beautiful videos here. Fantastic kind of flying. I sure hate to see those wonderful old Stensons put at risk like this. I love those airplanes and I'm sure their owners do also but I still hold my breath when I see them in back country videos.

Thanks for sharing!

Sme of these take-offs are really scary!

Man you are one helluva good (and brave pilot) bush pilot.

Looks like those planes take a beating , Great video thou !

This footage is therapeutic

As always great flying. Must take time to clean the airplane after those muddy landings.

The take-offs in the first part of this video were ALL high-pucker-factor events. Extremely so. The C182 with it's vulnerable nose-wheel is questionable for back-country flying, it is a big fat lump of aluminum designed for paved (or at least firm) runways. It is actually amazing to see how well it did!

As a low time pilot it's reassuring as well as not reassuring that someone so much experience makes mistakes. What I'm trying to say is I guess I have many of my own mistakes to look forward to

That is some seriously intense video.

Airplanes and pilots fascinate me beyond measure...mainly because I'm so scared of heights. I mean, deathly afraid. I LOVE watching these videos bro. I want to fly SO BADLY, especially with Bush pilots like yall. But I honestly dont know how I would react. There are only 2 things in life I fear, one is heights, and the other is, heights...anyways, thank you for sharing! Gorgeous scenery! Subbed!

Nice 3 point take off!!

great video

Thanks for sharing.👍

Thank you beautiful country, beautiful planes!

Bei manchen dieser Starts und Landungen bekommt man, beim Zusehen, eine "Gänsehaut". Da könnte Manches in`s Auge gehen.

Thanks a lot sir

Stay safe sir!

Man that landing was wild.

Very interesting video, I was a towpilot, flying a 180 Bellanca Scout out of a 2000 ft grass strip with hydro wires at the end, towing a 2-seater glider with a 200 ft. rope. Never had trouble clearing the wires, I'm guessing the elevation in this video is much higher hence what seems to be longer than normal take-off rolls.

Awesome this is!

I was taught to fly by bush pilots and crop dusters. They had me landing everywhere aircraft really shouldn’t land. Their reasoning was that a plane cannot stay aloft forever. At some stage you must land. They taught me how to recognise overgrown ridge strips used by the dusters, creek beds, paddocks, washes and roads. They were bold pilots, they were old pilots with experience. Every day I thank the Lord for these guys teaching me to look for things, hold my nerve and to put into practice what they taught me. A group of Chief Fling Instructors just happened to be having a meeting at the small strip I landed at after a in air emergency with my wife on board, cockpit fire, smoke filled cabin, no instrument, no horizon, close by pilot kept contact and advised on wing position and course until smoke cleared. One of the CFIs was my examiner and after the hour long grilling they gave me, on our way out, he said very quietly, “good job. Regardless of what you think, the other guys were impressed with your radio work, skills and focus. After the interview we set about investigating the cause, disconnected faulty part, made the wiring safe we flew the bird home (hour flight’ with a wingman. My wife was offered a seat with wingman, but politely declined saying “I trust my husband and if he was serious about me flying home with John (wingman), I wouldn’t let him fly home. For the flight home we followed the old adage “if you can’t land on it, don’t fly over it”. We had a welcome party awaiting us at our home strip, got a clip over the ear from one of my instructors, then a slap on the back. I was know as the ‘go round king’ because due to injury many, many years ago my legs don’t work too well so circuits, wow, hundreds of them, 😂😂, but we got there in the end on merit not mateship. Sadly though the injury plus cancer plus other problems forced me out to the left seat. Late 60s now and still look to the air with love and respect. Thanks for posting.

I found a KIT FOX 4 hidden in a Barn !! A BARN FINDER !! owner passed away and the daughter sold it to me CHEAP and it came with a trailer too !! I don't even fly, however I have been looking at this for three years, and then I FOUND IT !! thank you very much for the lessons. NOW WHAT ?? Tally HO !!

Some of these had me tensing my stomach and using body English to control the airplane 🤣🤣

Some of your "coordinated" turns are epic. You hit the rudder first and use the yaw coupling to help you roll into it, so the actually turn starts before you have ever rolled. Awesome to watch. Bold as brass though. Do that rudder kick a little too slow and....

Wow I was holding my breath on most of these.

A power upgrade to the stock 182 O-470 would be comforting and improve safety. fun vid.

Really impressive take-off at 1:16.

very good

Would really like to know some of these locations. With FS2020 out, we can just about try them for ourselves.

I've taken off and landed on gravel bars like that up in Alaska.

Appreciate it.

So, no shit. There I was, stationed at Fort Wainwright Alaska with 1-17th Infantry. One of my pals, we'll call him Staff Sergeant Z, was assigned to 4-123d Aviation as a crew chief on CH-47 Chinooks. He often invited me to join him on flights around Fairbanks. One day, the pilots were training dustoffs from small landing zones (LZ). We circled one sand bar over the Chena River. The crew decided to wave off because the sand bar was too small. We flew off and landed on some other larger LZs. At the end of the day, training complete, we flew back to Wainwright. We passed over the small LZ we had rejected earlier and saw two planes parked there. Balls, man. These guys have balls.

That first landing...Holy 💩!

These are all SCARY !!

5:35 that was a scary approach and landing

To all the pilots featured here: way to stay in it. Fly it all theway up or down! Great skills, smooth controls and cool heads win the day

Excellent pilots 5/11/2021in scary flying .