I enjoyed the travelogue. I’ve driven to Homer and it’s a great trip. The vastness of Alaska has concealed the whereabouts of several downed aircraft for many years. It is a hazardous place to operate with very unpredictable weather. Thanks for posting this.
Boy that's a lot of water to fly over in a single engine. Most of us fly down cook inlet further before crossing. Also, Skilak is Ski-Lac. So interesting seeing this from a non-local perspective. The route you took would be very uncommon for a local.
Thanks for the local color. I do ask for local information when we are there. in this case FSS recommended this route as the coastal route had low ceilings, and so we went IFR. I had flown this route many times on previous trips and was familiar with it. I hear you on the overwater section of the Cook Inlet, but that routing was not going to happen IFR. Plus, it seemed so little of an exposure after all of the other ground and isolated territory we had already covered.
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I enjoyed the travelogue. I’ve driven to Homer and it’s a great trip. The vastness of Alaska has concealed the whereabouts of several downed aircraft for many years. It is a hazardous place to operate with very unpredictable weather. Thanks for posting this.
Boy that's a lot of water to fly over in a single engine. Most of us fly down cook inlet further before crossing. Also, Skilak is Ski-Lac. So interesting seeing this from a non-local perspective. The route you took would be very uncommon for a local.
Thanks for the local color. I do ask for local information when we are there. in this case FSS recommended this route as the coastal route had low ceilings, and so we went IFR. I had flown this route many times on previous trips and was familiar with it. I hear you on the overwater section of the Cook Inlet, but that routing was not going to happen IFR. Plus, it seemed so little of an exposure after all of the other ground and isolated territory we had already covered.
hahahaha, the nic arm.... The locals call it the Kah-Nic arm.
kind of like pee-ca vs. pe-kahn in the South. 😀
@@baselegaviation1614 exactly, I call a pee-can because I'm a dork.