5 Flights to Make Before You Die

Originally Posted by Jay Honeck

Where would YOU choose to fly before you die?

I still have a goal of retracing Rinker Buck's flight in a similar
aircraft. That would be the ultimate for me.

God, yes! Would that NOT be the flight of a lifetime?

When I read Buck's story I thought that it sounded exactly like the flight of a lifetime. When I finally got a Cub I realized that it is the flight of a teenager's lifetime. Being several multiples of a teenager I think I'll stick to shorter jaunts, lest I'm too crippled to enjoy the destination.

V7

Jay Honeck wrote:

Add Hawaii to the list.

Someday!

It is a looooong swim if you don't quite make it though :-)

--Sylvain

I'll simply say the "next" 5.
Jim

I'll go along with NEWPS on the Montana/Idaho recommendation. Everytime I
take a mountain virgin into the backcountry, they're hooked. It's unlike any
kind of flying you'll do anywhere else. My website has a sample of some of
the strips. http://www.johngalban.com/

Next is Alaska (which has been mentioned). More specifically, flying the
glaciers on Mt. McKinley. That rates right up near the top of my list. I'm
going back to do it again next summer.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

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On Apr 8, 9:30 pm, Newps wrote:
Jay Honeck wrote:

Looks nice, though. I've got a sister out in Sequim, WA, maybe I'll
have to check this place out?

Then make it a real trip and fly to the back country strips of Montana
and Idaho. Five trips to paved runways in flat country where people
without planes can easily get to? Yawn.

Well, I live in Montana, have flown into a lot of backcountry strips,
and would argue that there are lots of places in flat country that are
fun to fly into simply because of the people you meet there.

Over the years I've flown into a lot of gorgeous places all over the
world. But the thing I remember most are the people I've met there.
Flying into Meadow Creek in the Bob Marshall is a great experience,
but what makes it special is the people you meet there.

I've flown into Decorah, Iowa and had just as good a time because of
the people I met there.

Just my two cents.

--Walt
Bozeman

Jay Honeck wrote:
But I would rank those as different "types" of flights, rather than
places to fly.

These usually happen within a mile or two of the airport, but they're
interesting "types" IMHO:

- Putting a homebuilt into a 10,500 fpm descent for about a minute,
discovering that it's actually possible to navigate a little in this
condition, then pulling out.

- Then, flying a glider back to the airport, through the pattern, and
to a literal tip-toe landing on the grass.

- Doing either of the above, but in formation with one to a hundred
other pilots.

Matt Roberds

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Jay Honeck wrote:
But I would rank those as different "types" of flights, rather than
places to fly.

These usually happen within a mile or two of the airport, but they're
interesting "types" IMHO:

- Putting a homebuilt into a 10,500 fpm descent for about a minute,
discovering that it's actually possible to navigate a little in this
condition, then pulling out.

- Then, flying a glider back to the airport, through the pattern, and
to a literal tip-toe landing on the grass.

- Doing either of the above, but in formation with one to a hundred
other pilots.


How about a soft field landing, when you get it so right, that you never
feel the aircraft touch down. You just hear the wheels start rolling.

How about a soft field landing, when you get it so right, that you never
feel the aircraft touch down. You just hear the wheels start rolling.- Hide quoted text -

Ah, yes --- the *perfect* landing. So elusive, so wonderful when
achieved...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:

Ah, yes --- the *perfect* landing. So elusive, so wonderful when
achieved...


RAPTURE = end of PPL ticket check ride in C-150, a "greaser", glanced to
the right to see inspector actually tug on the yoke a couple of times to
make sure we were on the deck!!! YES!!! 1967

Cheers'n Beers.. [_])
Don (was CRaSH)

How about a soft field landing, when you get it so right, that you never
feel the aircraft touch down. You just hear the wheels start rolling.


Oh, yeah!! My most memorable landing ever - C-172 checkout at Isla
Grande airport in San Juan, PR: went twice around the pattern, then one
landing on a runway that had just been wetted by the usual afternoon
rainshower - no bump, no jolt of the tire spinup, not even a squeek -
the check pilot said "You may take our airplane" ...

.... and returning to the original subject of this thread - "You may take
our airplane to St. Thomas, VI". Now that's a flight I'd like to make
again, but grateful I was able to make it once (1965).