Bush Flying a Floatplane with an External Load into a Mountain Lake in the Canadian North
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- Today we are strapping a canoe to the side of the airplane and flying into a lake 3000 feet above the sea. We're fully loaded and fully committed.
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Awesome video man! Had a great time surveying with you this summer🤙🏼🤙🏼
This was super interesting and informative! Love this type of flying, and love the details you showed of your techniques in and out of that lake!
Hard to tell what the real limit is until you exceed it! X wind take off in narrow channels was always my biggest pucker factor
yeah that would pucker me up a little too
Very cool video! Bush and seaplane flying are both so interesting to me
Thanks!
Awesome flying. Right on the limit.
Oh, that was one heck of a flight, eh! Oh, no doubt, eh!
Hey One Nut'r, I really enjoy your channel - would appreciate an update on how the transition from the '50 Hour' floatplane course was like to presumably a commercial floatplane pilot now. Are you flying for Harbor Air, or just wearing their merch? Looks really cool, and would love to emulate your career path. Thanks for the high production value - it's appreciated!
Never fly out toward the middle of the lake, shore line, I saw you had a ripple, but good habits keep one alive..you did good, like your tucking behind the point to land on the last stop
great view from above
A canoe is light.
I have a picture of an Otter carrying a C185 fuselage without its engine strapped to float and struts.
Looks impressive but its no big deal.
Great video; I appreciate your candour. How do you like that V-brace iPad mount? I don't have a great spot on my instrument panel to mount an ipad, and I am considering the V-brace mounting option.
Yeah it worked well. Just make sure to select a suitable arm that doesn't block any gauges or instruments.
You should always set your limits and fly 100% to the limit. If you only go to 80% it wasn't really the limit, but 80% is your limit and if you only go to 80% of that limit and continue with that pretty soon your limit is such that you will never leave the house.
Why not do an ascending circle above the lake where you have no obstacles until you reach your desired altitude / heading?
Great idea...if you have enough space to do so.
Nice video. That was nice little hole they put that lake in. Was that a 206?
I watched a DHC2 Beaver with boxes & cargo stacked higher than the rear windows, and wood strapped on top of both floats take off in AK. After a long takeoff run, it never climbed higher than about 10-20’ as it flew out of sight in ground effect.
Haha. If it floats it'll fly!
It's a 185.
Ely MN. They've been doing this for decades.. we had four adults (3+pilot), gear, AND a 17+' aluminum canoe, the pilot was bored unitl he casually dropped us on a rock the size of a chair in the middle of Canadian boarder waters lake. The big old Beaver never struggled.
Except without the mountains and altitude. Seaplane flying is crazy none the less.
Will be interested to learn of the canoe and pax recovery out of there…. Or will they have portaged over to other lake?
They paddled/portaged out.
should have been running Aerocet floats. the rivets ALWAYSY leak.
I hear ya on that one. I love the composite aerocet floats. trouble is they are a little heavier, no? Every pound matters when the plane is used for work. On a personal plane where I wasn't trying to fill it to max weight every time i flew it, absolutely. Priest River, Idaho is only 7 hours from my house. I've love to go do an Aerocet factory tour one day.
Geez, I would imagine bird strikes would be a bit of an issue with that sort of flying. Am I right? Nicely done btw.
Bird strikes pretty much no issue in the mountains. Mountain strikes big issue :-)
@@onenutnightmare HaHa..... that's funny.....:)
How did you get your start as a bush pilot? I'm just beginning flight school and would one day love to make money flying.
Stay tuned. I'm going to do an upcoming episode on exactly that.
Like the ol boy said, “it was a bit sporting today”
What was the price of this transport ?
No idea. I just drive.
Enjoy the videos. Could you name the lakes or locations you are flying in to in the video or the comments? I think I recognize some of the places and curious about others.
Wish I could.