Where is everyone #5

Yeah, I think I would leave my boat at home. That river eats first timers. The guys up there know that river. If they don't know it, they don't last long.

 

It's a wilderness area, so no motorized travel, and a little over 2 million acres. So it's either horse, boat, backpack, or air.

If I get through there and have time, I'm gonna hire an air taxi and see if I can handle it.

I went up in a Cessna with a friend of my dads when I was 5 or 6 and was ok. Got in a helicopter around 18 or 19 and that pilot scared the hell out of me. Ain't been up since

 

Just an idea— might want to check Pistol Creek Outfitters website out— they are a top notch outfit, pricy but top notch— fly into the home ranch and horseback to a spike camp

 

Thanks. I shot em an email. There schedule shows full for my dates, but i might can adjust.

 

Don’t think you would be disappointed if you could get in on it—- the flying part is… well let’s just say you won’t ever have an issue again after the landing and takeoff

 

My votes would be for horse or helicopter. Sounds like horse for you. They do rent horses.

 

Bourbon, scotch? Other, legal, mellow me out drugs?

 

My buddy the chiropractor has been learning to fly for the last year. He's at the 'instrument rating' part of it, X amount of hours flying in clear conditions with 'foggles' on, which simulate low/no visibility situations. He went up the other day in actual cloudy/foggy conditions with his trainer as part of the training, and it scared the vertebrae out of him.

His trainer is a 'kid' who waits tables at Olive Garden, but trains pilots to build hours necessary for regional/commercial employment.

To me - there's a similarity between the CDL process and the aviation certification. I've 'lived vicariously' through him during the process, he asked me to learn with him but I have no use for the skill for the $10-$15k training - what would I do with it ?

The fear of flying is simply a fear of death. Once you're 200' above the ground at 100mph, odds are that if stuff goes sideways , you're dead. Statistically it's the smaller planes and over confident or stupid (rich stupid) that gets you killed. Seems to me that with the amount of 'redundancy systems' in aircraft prevent mechanical failure, like having 2 distributors and double the spark plugs, just in case - fuel pumps, hand crank landing gear backup etc.

It's the 'pilot error' that is usually the problem. Failure to strictly adhere to checklists and preparation - and to park it if the conditions are not favorable.

Not sure if I'm easing your fear of flying here, or just relaying a current story.

 

Flying in the backcountry of the Ho in the little 206s, you usually survive the crash but get eaten by wolves

 

Yes, I saw an investigation the other night where the pilot pulled back when he got the stall judder, making it worse, instead of pushing forward to increase the speed and fly out of it.
Turns out he flew into New York as a passenger from home in Seattle and his first officer had done the same from Miami for a half hour flight to Newark I think. Both were yawning and well out of it having spent the night on settees because on their local carrier wages they couldn't afford a hotel. I think the law might have changed now happily to stop such things from happening.