So impressive, humble pilot and CEO, shares mistakes so others learn after he cartwheels his plane. Failure is an adventure!

Great work! Love it when people put their egos aside and admit to their mistakes so others can learn. We all screw up here and there, sometimes we are lucky enough to get away with it, other times we arnt

Great to see a humble person willing to take a difficult experience and use it as an educational opportunity for others. Great video!

I really appreciate you sharing this video. I look for these little gems to help myself learn and truly be a better pilot. Glad to see you walk away unscathed!!

The old guy at the end has seen and fixed it all.:)

Most pilots wouldn't admit any error. Good job analyzing what happened to improve everyone's chances of avoiding mistakes like this again.

Not many pilots will admit when they mess up. My hats off to you for admitting you messed up. Target fixation happens many forms. Dad warned me about it when I started to learn to fly.

Thank you for your having putting other people's learning from your experience ahead of your pride. Your humility will enable other people to be aware in similar circumstances and may save someone's life. Glad you are okay as well. Had a dear friend die when their tricycle gear flipped over after hitting something on a beach takeoff in Alaska. They went to pick wild strawberries and came back to the plane with 5 quarts of berries but never made it home. I worked with her in the fish cannery and she was loved by everyone.

Yikes! What a stellar gentleman for taking us through the process of what happened. Glad the plane survived!

Admire the narrative and, especially, your wisdom to helicopter it out! Great guidance to viewers!👍

Thank you for sharing, I truly believe that helps others learn. There was one comment you mentioned about you should of pulled the power.... no no no! You loose the air going over the tail, which will prevent you from planting that tail. While not in water, I hit a soft spot at Friday creek a few years ago during breakup. I pulled power and tried to plant the tail but had absolutely no elevator authority without the prop blast. My advice, would be plant the tail and slowly pull the power, the key thing pulling that stick back all the way, keep some power in until you are pretty much a slow taxi speed.

Gutted to hear and see the incident. Glad you are OK... I guess you are a better pilot today! 💪

We all learned about flying because of what you shared. Thank you!

thank you for sharing. excellent video, it didn't leave unanswered questions. very helpful. pilots perspective is the key piece of info in this video. thank you for your candor.

Nice! I'm not a pilot but I do know it takes a 'Big man' to admit his mistakes. By doing so you are helping others not to make the same mistake. Thanks............ Respect!

Lessons can come at a very expensive cost in aviation. At least nobody got hurt. Thank you for sharing your video. Take care, Be safe.

You walked away sir and thank God that you didn’t get hurt through this incident

Great lesson. Thanks for sharing a difficult day! Keith @ Gwin’s Lodge Roadhouse and Cabins in Cooper Landing Alaska

I only had a single curled prop and you got both. Afterwards I often thought about if I had used the starter to bring the prop to level I could have saved it 🤔 I guess you just had to be there. I'm really glad both of us are able to laugh about our own mistakes.

Thanks for posting this lesson. Glad your ok.

Interesting and a lesson shared is mistake avoided. I avoided real bad accident by paying good attention to other pilots shared experiences. Thank you!

Rarely do people share their mistakes. Thank you, I learned and so many others will too.

Just glad you are OK.

Too funny at the end! Glad you're ok and, as always, learned something valuable!

Thanks for making this video. Very helpful.

Thanks for sharing the lesson for us all

Bravo on being able to point out that it was your mistake. Not many ppl can set aside egos. Thank you for posting this video, it shows character & someone wanting to pass on a learning experience. Cheers fr Kasilof.

Very interesting. Good see the SC in the air again.

7:31 talk about STOL!! jokes aside, I’m glad you and your bird are okay. Thanks for making this a learning experience.

Good video - my homestead was in Yenlo Mts. , just north of the Talchulitna R. - Yep gets a little Soggy in that high country sometimes. Cub looked pretty good afterall.

Thanks for sharing your story.

Thanks for showing this.

This is the best way to learn Thx Glad ur ok

Thank you for sharing. It's good educational training video

Nice video. Us lower 48 pilots totally understand. Those improvised runways are the problem. I like the riverbed runways best in Alaska. Minor damage, no injuries, good to fly another day.Life is Good!

Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for sharing.

Glad you are ok.

Thanks for this , Being a pilot has humbled me from time to time as well. Heck some days I swear I forget how to land. After watching this I think maybe flying from the back seat might be a good thing when taking off from a very soft field , I'm gonna practice. I'll make a video just in case it goes badly.

Yea, that rough ass hay field looks like a great choice of places to fly off from.

Great video. Not many people would admit they were wrong and let alone, show it in a video. Many should learn from this one as you did. Thanks for sharing

Cartwheel club! LOL. Well done and thanks for sharing.

I soloed a J3 Cub many years ago. What a fun aircraft to fly! Not a Super Cub, but a Cub none the less. Never joined the Ground Loop or Cartwheel Club, but was very aware of how quickly it can happen. You were very open and honest and thanks for sharing. Glad things worked out as they did.

I'm a member of the club. It sure is humbling.

Thanks for explaining. How much did it cost for the helicopter to fly it out of there?

You walked away….🙏😎👍🏼 Would be great to know the total cost for recovering the craft and putting it back in service…?

Cartwheel Club in PA 12; lost power over the Kenai Moose Range--landing looked great until we slowed enough for the wheels to sink onto the water.

Love these advanced 'propellerlets' to avoid tip vortices...

You got a great story to tell though!

Yah new engine and prop but I saw surprisingly little Airframe damage, even to rudder. Was there ANY Airframe damage?

My dad was a bush pilot in Alaska from the early 70s to the late 90s or so. He flipped a Cessna 120 or a Lescomb (I can't remember which now) on a sandbar, the wheels dug in on the landing and it slowly flipped over. No one was hurt though.

Great team

Really some fields are rotary wing only. Even short take off aircraft have limits.

I can't imagine what it cost you to have a chopper carry you out

Good ol' Huey to the rescue.

Thanks 👍

Good video

Damn I hope everybody's okay that's an awesome freaking plane hope it's still good

That cost you some money !!!! Nice work getting it out from there.

Man, I love the Huey!

I'll bet that cost you a buck or three to get back home. I did the same to the prop on mu Stinson in an off field landing in El Paso back in '96, except only to one side.

The very last line is a gem. All's well that ends...expensively.

Glad I waited for the ending of the Video of how the airplane got home! That was some vertical takeoff there to get it HOME...

Always full stick back in soft conditions. -another thing... big tires are no good in snow, they create more drag. Been there, done that. Western NY where REAL snow falls.

man, so sorry. that made me throw up a little bit. How far out of the crank after the strike?

Can someone say engine overhaul? Ouch!

Great review, no ego. Shouldn’t ridicule or judge OTHERS mishaps..unless you like eating ‘crow’.

So what’s the cost of a helicopter tow run now?

I did the same thing in a F4U Corsair. It was an RC plane so not nearly as expensive to flip.

What's the hourly rate on a Huey? Oof. Glad you're okay!

Thanks 🙏

When it rains it pours. A combination of factors in this situation

was that last guy in the video an A & P guy? he was a hoot

Well the error to me is so understandable I imagine there will be pilots, even after seeing this, making similar mistakes due to the very narrow margin of error these circumstances command. But my real question here is the damage did not appear terrible. In other words what could have prevented you from replacing the propeller onsite and flying it out of there? Anything? The helicopter transport and all could not have been the cheapest solution.

having a winch on the plane to pull you up hills to a proper take off area

Happens to the best of us. If you fly bush you're going to get in some sketchy situations.

Thanks for this video. Might be a good time to throw on an 0-360!

Just soooooo freaking happy that nobody got hurt.....

The whole thing is so far from standard soft field takeoff! At least you have learned an expensive lesson.

Why did you keep trying to get.the tail up???

I've done some flying in the Alaskan bush, my eye is not untrained and it strains to see this "runway" he speaks of.

Cheapest insurance = 35" ABW :)

Glad you weren’t hurt.

That profile works really well on wing tips Not so much on props...

The first time I landed on pavement, with tundra tires, I bounced for a mile!

“Sometime school’s very expensive “.

Shit happens, and this guy can handle it.

😂"We just need a cape and we can mount it as a full curl". 😂

Great. Next time inspect the runway before your flight.

31s? 8241?

8:04 - What's that mounted on the wing?

Do you recon the plain would have not flipped if you kept the tail down until rotation despite your runway excursion? And another thought.. maybe flipping the plane saved you.. without the mindset that let's you abort a takeoff when you are no longer on your runway, would you have aborted off when you did not accelerate as expected? Thanks for posting this.. that way we can all learn your lesson without the helicopter and repair bill.. people like you make aviation safer! Cheers from switzerland (where we flip our cubs on the glacier ;) )

Happens to the best of us It's not if it's when

Thanks for the great lesson learned. I’ll be looking out for those wet fields and practicing aborted take offs more as I get more experience in the bush.

That's some expensive moose right there. Glad you got it home

That's the new experimental winglet prop..LOL

I wonder what the final tally on the bill for this was.

One thing I know.... Do NOT use those old style seat belts that the webbing slips through the clip. And you pull the tab up to release. When you are hanging upside down your weight makes the latching tighter and you cannot get out. Cutting is your only option. Thats what I heard anyway...🙄🙄

A take-off with almost no room for error.

The biggest risk, that tall grass. Abborted take off is just as important as the Abborted landing.