That's insane!!!!! Do you ever go flying for the fun of it? Cuz I am 12 and fly rc planes and want to be a bush pilot. How old do you have to be to start flying lessons?
@hamsterwing Flying "just for fun" is the best! I love flying on skis in Alaska because in the winter you can land so many places. You are getting a great start if you are flying RC because those airplanes fly exactly the same as the big ones. You have to be 16 to get a student pilot's license but you can do lots of practicing before that with an instructor or pilot friend. You can also start studying for the written examination whenever you want. Safe flying!
@kellingc Right on. With the Horton STOL kit, this airplane was really gentle and stable at 60 mph indicated. Plus the "barn door" manual flaps let me come in high and then come down fast when we had the gravel bar made.
@saxmanchiro A friend who is also an excellent bush pilot and an A&P flew in a borrowed engine (in his Cessna 206U), landing next to my airplane. Before leaving on the chopper I had walked off 900' usable feet of gravel bar. Using a spruce-legged tripod made from local trees, he swapped out engines right there on the gravel bar. Only took him four hours! We flew my airplane to the A & P's hangar where he put together a "new" engine for me. I sold the airplane in 1992. It's still in Alaska.
@mysticpass I bet of the 4 hrs you guys worked on that engine swap, you swatted flies for 2 of them. Have never been in Alaska but have been in northern Ontario during the spring. Black flies galore. Even had one manage to get up my ear canal. EENT had to go in and get him out. All the best to you and yours.
@mysticpass Sorry, Radar Altitude...but then again I realize that 170B probably does not have a radar altimeter. I'm sure you could guestimate? just how high off the actual ground were you? that would be the first thing I would worry about.
@cameronwick Right, no radar altimeter -- not even a Mode C xponder. The floor of Mystic Pass, to the right beyond the big waterfall, is 1900 MSL. I didn't look at the altimeter when the engine failed but I'm guessing I was at 3000 MSL or so, perhaps 2000' AGL. Over the waterfall, I wasn't high enough to enter the pass safely. It was when I added throttle to climb that the engine failed. The video shows an altimeter reading of 1550 feet in the "S" turn prior to touchdown.
wow looks like you did a great job getting it down safely Ive never had an engine failure if it ever happens I hope I do as well as you did thankfully for you and your family it went this way !
I've suffered through a lot of suck airplane videos. How did it take me years to find this one? Great video! Great aviating! And great Dad! Like everyone else, thanks for sharing!
@d73Hify Camera said 10:30. It was actually 11:30 local (camera was on Pacific time not Alaska time). I can't remember the exact time we went down but it was early to midafternoon. I know we were well overdue on our flight plan at 4pm when FAA initiated the search.
Wow awesome story and outcome! Is there a reason why you decided not to show the landing or was that the point where u turned the camera off? Glad u guys made it safe!
@Captianfoodstamp Sorry we missed the landing...on the video you can (barely) hear me yell to my front seat passenger "it's gonna be rough" just before he shut the camera off to hang on. I saw a ditch coming up too fast and was afraid we would nose over. Hard to blame him for doing the right thing! The landing was hard because I pulled up to make it stall before we got to the ravine. I've made plenty of worse landings though -- in good conditions!
Wow, crazy video! Watching the terrain prior to and during the engine failure gave me some crazy anxiety bringing me back to all those "what-ifs" that went through my mind when I flew in my rented Cessna over rough terrain and oceans in the south pacific ... great landing!
@xseig3x Yes, I know that feeling! If the engine failure had occurred even 2 or 3 minutes later, we would have been in a narrow rock gorge (east entrance to Mystic Pass) with absolutely no place to put down. None of us would have survived.
@ChgoSTrider A friend who is also an excellent bush pilot and an A&P flew in a borrowed engine (in his Cessna 206U), landing next to my airplane. Before leaving on the chopper I had walked off 900' usable feet of gravel bar. Using a spruce-legged tripod made from local trees, he swapped out engines right there on the gravel bar. Only took him four hours! We flew my airplane to the A & P's hangar where he put together a "new" engine for me. I sold the airplane in 1992. It's still in Alaska.
A really good illustration of the importance of keeping suitable terrain available at all times in a single engine airplane. No night. No IMC. Well done, Sir.
@Floats18 Thanks for the great laugh! Both girls are happily married and have several children. I can't help but think "what if" when I hold my grandkids. Good luck on your wife hunt! Safe flying my friend.
great job. It would be most interesting to read more about how you handled the situation - what went thru your mind when the engine quit, how you thought thru the situation, planned the landing, etc. Would make a great article for student pilots and for those of us who have never had to do it for real.
@dkeberhard Good point. I enjoy writing..will consider that. In short, my first thought was oh my, it's happening to me. I had practiced engine failures and simulated emergency landings so many times I just reacted when it happened. I smelled smoke at the same time as the engine failed so I flipped off all electrical and shut off fuel at the firewall. From there it was just a matter of establishing and maintaining a good glide ratio while I looked for a place to put down. (continued)
@dkeberhard (Sorry, this will be out of order.) The first spot I selected was directly below us. I didn't know if we would survive because it was so small and rough, but if we caught fire that's where I was going. When we didn't catch fire, I selected a second spot about half a mile away which would have wrecked the airplane but we probably would have survived. When I got there I still had good altitude so I went for the nice smooth beach about a half mile farther south where we actually landed.
Good job bleeding off altitude and airspeed to land on that small clearing! I hope everyone was OK. But one question is still bugging me: What happened to your Cessna 170?
@MrJp990 A friend who is also an excellent bush pilot and an A&P flew in a borrowed engine (in his Cessna 206U), landing next to my airplane. Before leaving on the chopper I had walked off 900' usable feet of gravel bar. Using a spruce-legged tripod made from local trees, he swapped out engines right there on the gravel bar. Only took him four hours! We flew my airplane to the A & P's hangar where he put together a "new" engine for me. I sold the airplane in 1992. It's still in Alaska.
@SecondCocacola A friend who is also an excellent bush pilot and an A&P flew in a borrowed engine (in his Cessna 206U), landing next to my airplane. (Before leaving on the chopper I had walked off 900' usable feet of gravel bar.) Using a spruce-legged tripod made from local trees, he swapped out engines right there on the gravel bar. Only took him four hours! We flew my airplane to the A & P's hangar where he put together a "new" engine for me.
We need to increase funding to the Civil Air Patrol. We have almost no funding, here in Mass anyway. The Civil Air Patrol are obviously very helpful in this stuff! A downed plane not too long ago got like 5 squadrens scrabled to Westover AFB to get the CAP planes in the air. Took about 5 hours but we found the guy.
@masonjenkins4 CAP is of critical importance to general aviation. We need to make sure public officials get this. Thank you for sacrificing and serving despite the shortage of funds. Hats off to you and all CAP volunteers.
second time I've watched this. Such a nice job bleeding off altitude and setting up the approach. Very calm in the cockpit. There is simply nothing that could have been performed better here. Just a great pilot with a great story!
@jdbar01 A friend who is also an excellent bush pilot and an A&P flew in a borrowed
engine (in his Cessna 206U), landing next to my airplane. (Before leaving on the chopper I had walked off 900' usable feet of gravel bar.) Using a spruce-legged tripod made from local trees, he swapped out engines right there on the gravel bar. Only took him four hours! We flew my airplane to the A & P's hangar where he put together a "new" engine for me.
I am a student pilot, and I have done some simulating engine failure training. But we never really cut off the engine during the training, this video give me great image of what a real engine failure will be like....Thanks for sharing, this video may safe my life someday..^^
@youreale Thanks. More than 20 years later both girls in the back seat are happily married and have children of their own. Gets me when I think what could have been, especially if the failure had happened a couple minutes later when we were in the entrance of Mystic Pass (sheer rock walls).
@mysticpass I'm glad that everything went fine on this flight. It's really a very inspiring story for pilots all around the world. May God bless you and your family.
@Motherfuckersito Sorry we missed the landing...you can barely hear me yell to my front seat passenger "it's gonna be rough" just before he shut the camera off to hang on. I saw a ditch coming up too fast and was afraid we would nose over. Hard to blame him for doing the right thing! The landing was hard because I pulled up to make it stall before we got to the ravine. I've made plenty of worse landings though -- in good conditions!
@parkerhale1099 No kidding! Nice to hear from you. You probably know it's still in Alaska, on the Kuskokwim now. Most gentle airplane I ever had (great one to have an engine failure in).
A very nice job on your part. You remain collected, even with your friends and two daughters in the back, something I know few people would be able to do. For a moment there I thought the Civil Air Patrol was going to try and land in the field but none the less they did a fine job.
Great job! I am interested in how you salvaged the aircraft. Rebuild the engine on site? Fly in a replacement engine and change out? Logistics issue that!
@tolip11 A friend who is also an excellent bush pilot and an A&P flew in a borrowed engine (in his Cessna 206U), landing next to my airplane. Before leaving on the chopper I had walked off 900' usable feet of gravel bar. Using a spruce-legged tripod made from local trees, he swapped out engines right there on the bar. Only took him four hours! We flew my airplane to the A & P's hangar where he put together a "new" engine for me.
@mysticpass okay, you guys up there are super survivalists and amazing pilots and engineers! that is super impressive with the engine rebuild/swap out
What a great job sir. As pilots we train for that, but it all changes when the prop sits in one spot and all you hear is wind. You performed as calm and cool as anybody could every be and my hats off to you. You remained calm on the outside, but I know your heart was thumping pretty hard on the inside. I have had partial and total engine losses in the past, but the area I live in is not even in the same league as where you were. Congats on a job well done.
Wow, great job of landing, and it seems as though the kids were having a good time in spite of the troubles. Alls well that ends well. Could you let us know what you think, or know what went wrong with the engine. thanks.
@bparno A ring broke in one cylinder, deeply scoring the cylinder wall and causing oil to "pump out" the exhaust on every stroke. Since the oil was all going out underneath the airplane, I didn't know there was a problem until oil pressure was at zero and the engine was ruined.
@bparno The girls had a good time sampling various C rations from the survival gear. Their mothers, on the other hand, weren't having such a good time as they wondered if we were alive.
I got my pilots licence a few of years back, my instructor must have made me do about 10 hours of force landings without power.....I only needed 50 hours total to get my licence and thought it a bit over the top to spend so much time on the one thing. However, I guess your video goes to show that an engine failure can happen at any time without warning. This is the one thing you have to get right the 1st time, there are no 2nd chances to go around and try again.
@69aussieguy Hopefully, you'll never have the "it's happening to me" shot of adrenalin, but if you do, you'll thank your instructor for all the practice!
Great demonstration on a superbly executed emergency landing. You could hardly have been better prepared for a difficult cross country flight over rough terrain .
Congratulations on a marvellously safe outcome ................ :-)
My first flying lesson in a Cessna 150, we had an engine failure at 5,000 feet. I was very happy to have my instructor there so he could glide us in. I still haven't gotten my privates, I should save up and go get it. I like flying. :)
Thank you for sharing this. I have been a private pilot for 25 years and have had two engine failures. One in a just purchased home built that had fuel feeding issues I was unaware of.
This happened in 1991 over a forest with few lakes. Like you, luck was on my side that day as the prop stopped over the only lake in sight and I was able to make an uneventful landing. There is more to this story but this is not the place for it.
Our 172 with the 0-300 was famous for losing pistons as well.
@pahoskins Great story. Wow. The 0-300 was a smooth running engine but it did go through jugs. I could plan on replacing one jug or another every 100 hours.
@pahoskins wow glad everything turned out ok, I also have had my ppl since 88 (flight test date 8-18-88) and have always rented, (never owned a plane) from air orlando (orl 7 miles north of orlando int.) so planes were always in good cond. never had an issue with engine, also switched to the plastic license but still have my original paper one...stay safe
Nice job landing that airplane it almost looked routine! I experienced a total engine failure over a mountain in New Hampshire in a C-172 and ended up landing on a golf course so I know the "Pucker Factor" you experienced. Did you get the airplane fixed and fly it back home?
@HHacker1959 A friend who is also an excellent bush pilot and an A&P flew in a borrowed engine (in his Cessna 206U), landing next to my airplane. (Before leaving on the chopper I had walked off 900' usable feet of gravel bar.) Using a spruce-legged tripod made from local tree
That's insane!!!!! Do you ever go flying for the fun of it? Cuz I am 12 and fly rc planes and want to be a bush pilot. How old do you have to be to start flying lessons?
hamsterwing 6 days ago
@hamsterwing Flying "just for fun" is the best! I love flying on skis in Alaska because in the winter you can land so many places. You are getting a great start if you are flying RC because those airplanes fly exactly the same as the big ones. You have to be 16 to get a student pilot's license but you can do lots of practicing before that with an instructor or pilot friend. You can also start studying for the written examination whenever you want. Safe flying!
mysticpass 6 days ago
Wow, that's a great video. (and story) Well done.
legendofwayne 1 week ago
@legendofwayne Thanks.
mysticpass 1 week ago
It sounded like you were keeping right on the edge of the stall envelope. That was some good stick and rudder flying.
kellingc 1 week ago
@kellingc Right on. With the Horton STOL kit, this airplane was really gentle and stable at 60 mph indicated. Plus the "barn door" manual flaps let me come in high and then come down fast when we had the gravel bar made.
mysticpass 1 week ago
Nice calm ending. Did you ever fix the plane and get it out of that river bed?
saxmanchiro 1 week ago
@saxmanchiro A friend who is also an excellent bush pilot and an A&P flew in a borrowed engine (in his Cessna 206U), landing next to my airplane. Before leaving on the chopper I had walked off 900' usable feet of gravel bar. Using a spruce-legged tripod made from local trees, he swapped out engines right there on the gravel bar. Only took him four hours! We flew my airplane to the A & P's hangar where he put together a "new" engine for me. I sold the airplane in 1992. It's still in Alaska.
mysticpass 1 week ago
@mysticpass Wow, that's quite the mechanic. I bet the bugs were real pesky.
saxmanchiro 1 week ago
@saxmanchiro :) sounds like you've been there.
mysticpass 1 week ago
@mysticpass I bet of the 4 hrs you guys worked on that engine swap, you swatted flies for 2 of them. Have never been in Alaska but have been in northern Ontario during the spring. Black flies galore. Even had one manage to get up my ear canal. EENT had to go in and get him out. All the best to you and yours.
saxmanchiro 1 week ago
Good job! You are an excellent pilot.
mmascitti 1 week ago in playlist Liked videos
@mmascitti "Excellent" might be stretching it, but thanks!
mysticpass 1 week ago
good desicion on a good time from great Pilot
dlo3y222 1 week ago
@dlo3y222 Thanks.
mysticpass 1 week ago
Nice work. I've got a little over 1000 hours in single engine planes, fortunately I've yet to have to make a dead-stick landing.
74HC138 1 week ago
@74HC138 Hope you never do. Safe flying.
mysticpass 1 week ago
thanks for posting! Glad this all turned out well!
berlymahn 1 week ago
really you are good pilot...bravo very emotional...
albertoliru 2 weeks ago
@albertoliru You are very kind. Thank you.
mysticpass 2 weeks ago
Nice job - not an easy thing when the thrust disappears.. Great Piloting..
solaroz 2 weeks ago
@solaroz so right! Thanks.
mysticpass 2 weeks ago
I found this fasinating, nicely done :)
ksandom40 2 weeks ago
@ksandom40 Thanks.
mysticpass 2 weeks ago
Wow, Im glad you were ok. i'd be really scared! Safe Flying!
SageHillsPilot
Hamradioismyhobby 2 weeks ago
@Hamradioismyhobby In the middle of crisis you just follow your training. I think I was more anxious watching the video afterward than "doing it."
mysticpass 2 weeks ago
What RA were you at when you lost power?
cameronwick 2 weeks ago
@cameronwick I'm sorry, what does RA stand for?
mysticpass 2 weeks ago
@mysticpass Sorry, Radar Altitude...but then again I realize that 170B probably does not have a radar altimeter. I'm sure you could guestimate? just how high off the actual ground were you? that would be the first thing I would worry about.
cameronwick 2 weeks ago
@cameronwick Right, no radar altimeter -- not even a Mode C xponder. The floor of Mystic Pass, to the right beyond the big waterfall, is 1900 MSL. I didn't look at the altimeter when the engine failed but I'm guessing I was at 3000 MSL or so, perhaps 2000' AGL. Over the waterfall, I wasn't high enough to enter the pass safely. It was when I added throttle to climb that the engine failed. The video shows an altimeter reading of 1550 feet in the "S" turn prior to touchdown.
mysticpass 2 weeks ago
At first I was like "No landing? Grrrr..." but then I was like "Yeah, I'd have ducked down too!" & stuff.
localcrew 2 weeks ago
@localcrew :)
mysticpass 2 weeks ago
Congratullations! You did your job very well!
You make me feel 'will to live' if you know what i mean!
God bless you!
herruchoa 2 weeks ago
@herruchoa I'm very thankful to God I can hold my daughter's children (my grandchildren)!
mysticpass 2 weeks ago
hua
dustmundo 2 weeks ago
@dustmundo :)
mysticpass 2 weeks ago
wow looks like you did a great job getting it down safely Ive never had an engine failure if it ever happens I hope I do as well as you did thankfully for you and your family it went this way !
sprcub 2 weeks ago
@sprcub Thanks. Safe flying.
mysticpass 2 weeks ago
I've suffered through a lot of suck airplane videos. How did it take me years to find this one? Great video! Great aviating! And great Dad! Like everyone else, thanks for sharing!
gjferg 2 weeks ago
@gjferg Thank you.
mysticpass 2 weeks ago
since 1030 was actually light out, how long were you all there on the ground? very glad to see all went well
d73Hify 3 weeks ago
@d73Hify Camera said 10:30. It was actually 11:30 local (camera was on Pacific time not Alaska time). I can't remember the exact time we went down but it was early to midafternoon. I know we were well overdue on our flight plan at 4pm when FAA initiated the search.
mysticpass 3 weeks ago
Wow awesome story and outcome! Is there a reason why you decided not to show the landing or was that the point where u turned the camera off? Glad u guys made it safe!
Captianfoodstamp 3 weeks ago
@Captianfoodstamp Sorry we missed the landing...on the video you can (barely) hear me yell to my front seat passenger "it's gonna be rough" just before he shut the camera off to hang on. I saw a ditch coming up too fast and was afraid we would nose over. Hard to blame him for doing the right thing! The landing was hard because I pulled up to make it stall before we got to the ravine. I've made plenty of worse landings though -- in good conditions!
mysticpass 3 weeks ago
Amazing. Thanks for sharing. :)
latmask00 3 weeks ago
Very cool video, and glad the outcome was a success! Cool as a cucumber,
Aviyaytor 3 weeks ago
@Aviyaytor Thanks.
mysticpass 3 weeks ago
Wow, crazy video! Watching the terrain prior to and during the engine failure gave me some crazy anxiety bringing me back to all those "what-ifs" that went through my mind when I flew in my rented Cessna over rough terrain and oceans in the south pacific ... great landing!
xseig3x 3 weeks ago
@xseig3x Yes, I know that feeling! If the engine failure had occurred even 2 or 3 minutes later, we would have been in a narrow rock gorge (east entrance to Mystic Pass) with absolutely no place to put down. None of us would have survived.
mysticpass 3 weeks ago
Wow
foxheight 3 weeks ago
fine job
Earssss 3 weeks ago
@Earssss Thanks! Safe flying.
mysticpass 3 weeks ago
Nice job. How did you get the plane out of there??
ChgoSTrider 3 weeks ago
@ChgoSTrider A friend who is also an excellent bush pilot and an A&P flew in a borrowed engine (in his Cessna 206U), landing next to my airplane. Before leaving on the chopper I had walked off 900' usable feet of gravel bar. Using a spruce-legged tripod made from local trees, he swapped out engines right there on the gravel bar. Only took him four hours! We flew my airplane to the A & P's hangar where he put together a "new" engine for me. I sold the airplane in 1992. It's still in Alaska.
mysticpass 3 weeks ago
A really good illustration of the importance of keeping suitable terrain available at all times in a single engine airplane. No night. No IMC. Well done, Sir.
LJDRVR 3 weeks ago
@LJDRVR Thanks. You're right on -- important to have enough airspace under you to give yourself options.
mysticpass 3 weeks ago
Nice flying!
TheRealHawkeye 4 weeks ago
@TheRealHawkeye Thanks.
mysticpass 4 weeks ago
Nice work, sir! Fellow taildragger driver here. A+ for having daughters who can handle themselves! They're about my age now, are they available? ;)
Floats18 4 weeks ago
@Floats18 Thanks for the great laugh! Both girls are happily married and have several children. I can't help but think "what if" when I hold my grandkids. Good luck on your wife hunt! Safe flying my friend.
mysticpass 4 weeks ago
great job. It would be most interesting to read more about how you handled the situation - what went thru your mind when the engine quit, how you thought thru the situation, planned the landing, etc. Would make a great article for student pilots and for those of us who have never had to do it for real.
dkeberhard 4 weeks ago
@dkeberhard Good point. I enjoy writing..will consider that. In short, my first thought was oh my, it's happening to me. I had practiced engine failures and simulated emergency landings so many times I just reacted when it happened. I smelled smoke at the same time as the engine failed so I flipped off all electrical and shut off fuel at the firewall. From there it was just a matter of establishing and maintaining a good glide ratio while I looked for a place to put down. (continued)
mysticpass 4 weeks ago
@dkeberhard (Sorry, this will be out of order.) The first spot I selected was directly below us. I didn't know if we would survive because it was so small and rough, but if we caught fire that's where I was going. When we didn't catch fire, I selected a second spot about half a mile away which would have wrecked the airplane but we probably would have survived. When I got there I still had good altitude so I went for the nice smooth beach about a half mile farther south where we actually landed.
mysticpass 4 weeks ago
probably didnt seem like it at the time but its little things like this that create little memorable adventures that last a lifetime.
glennjridge 4 weeks ago
@glennjridge Right on!
mysticpass 4 weeks ago
SOme people really do panick in these sort of situations and lose it mentally from fear
210482fmj 1 month ago
Good pilot : ) Salute.
yohan01 1 month ago
@yohan01 Thanks!
mysticpass 1 month ago
Better call Jim Tweto!! Great airmanship!!!
chubsmagoo 1 month ago
@chubsmagoo :) Thanks.
mysticpass 1 month ago
ufff, lucky end:-)
streamRBK 1 month ago
wooow mate what an experience. glad you guys were ok. Wow man.
Skyrodude 1 month ago
@Skyrodude Thanks. May you fly safe.
mysticpass 1 month ago
Good job bleeding off altitude and airspeed to land on that small clearing! I hope everyone was OK. But one question is still bugging me: What happened to your Cessna 170?
MrJp990 1 month ago
@MrJp990 A friend who is also an excellent bush pilot and an A&P flew in a borrowed engine (in his Cessna 206U), landing next to my airplane. Before leaving on the chopper I had walked off 900' usable feet of gravel bar. Using a spruce-legged tripod made from local trees, he swapped out engines right there on the gravel bar. Only took him four hours! We flew my airplane to the A & P's hangar where he put together a "new" engine for me. I sold the airplane in 1992. It's still in Alaska.
mysticpass 1 month ago
@mysticpass Well all I can say is that was some damn good craftsmanship... Also, some of the best flying I had ever witnessed.
MrJp990 1 month ago
@MrJp990 Thanks. Very kind of you.
mysticpass 1 month ago
@mysticpass Wait, so your entire airplane is just siting in the middle of a sand bar in the middle of alaska?
SecondCocacola 1 month ago
@SecondCocacola A friend who is also an excellent bush pilot and an A&P flew in a borrowed engine (in his Cessna 206U), landing next to my airplane. (Before leaving on the chopper I had walked off 900' usable feet of gravel bar.) Using a spruce-legged tripod made from local trees, he swapped out engines right there on the gravel bar. Only took him four hours! We flew my airplane to the A & P's hangar where he put together a "new" engine for me.
mysticpass 1 month ago
@capricornBMX thanks!
mysticpass 1 month ago
@mysticpass
Great Video, Glad to see you made it back!
Goos3kv 1 month ago
We need to increase funding to the Civil Air Patrol. We have almost no funding, here in Mass anyway. The Civil Air Patrol are obviously very helpful in this stuff! A downed plane not too long ago got like 5 squadrens scrabled to Westover AFB to get the CAP planes in the air. Took about 5 hours but we found the guy.
masonjenkins4 1 month ago
@masonjenkins4 CAP is of critical importance to general aviation. We need to make sure public officials get this. Thank you for sacrificing and serving despite the shortage of funds. Hats off to you and all CAP volunteers.
mysticpass 1 month ago
Superb!
ChrizRockster 1 month ago
@ChrizRockster Thanks!
mysticpass 1 month ago
second time I've watched this. Such a nice job bleeding off altitude and setting up the approach. Very calm in the cockpit. There is simply nothing that could have been performed better here. Just a great pilot with a great story!
PirateSygnal 1 month ago
@PirateSygnal Thanks! All the way down I could hear my instructor's voice, "Airspeed and altitude, watch your airspeed and altitude."
mysticpass 1 month ago
Nicely done. Glad you guys got a great life story and video out of it.
dcdean01 1 month ago
@dcdean01 thank you.
mysticpass 1 month ago
Hi mysticpass,
How is the plane doing now?
Did you fix it out in the field and takeoff there?
jdbar01 1 month ago
@jdbar01 A friend who is also an excellent bush pilot and an A&P flew in a borrowed
engine (in his Cessna 206U), landing next to my airplane. (Before leaving on the chopper I had walked off 900' usable feet of gravel bar.) Using a spruce-legged tripod made from local trees, he swapped out engines right there on the gravel bar. Only took him four hours! We flew my airplane to the A & P's hangar where he put together a "new" engine for me.
mysticpass 1 month ago
@jdbar01 I sold the airplane in 1992. The FAA registry shows it is still in Alaska, on the
Kuskokwim River now.
mysticpass 1 month ago
Excellent job. Your (and everyones) calmness made this look like a training mission you've been run through a hundred times.
kkrankie 1 month ago
@kkrankie thanks, guess we faked it well!
mysticpass 1 month ago
Precious cargo.......
jaygdav 1 month ago
@jaygdav My wife says she had long since dealt with the idea that flying could get me someday, but not our daughter! Precious cargo is right.
mysticpass 1 month ago
Excellent job, stayed calm, made the right moves and got everyone out of there safely!
artdisco 1 month ago
@artdisco Thanks.
mysticpass 1 month ago
Well done, good call on the S turns to not overshoot the landing area!
TTMR1986 1 month ago
@TTMR1986 thanks. We also had a 15 knot headwund on final that let us land slow.
mysticpass 1 month ago
Good job. No panic. Excellent work!! Great pick on the landing area. What fabulous countryside.
SoapyHB 1 month ago
@SoapyHB Thanks. That is remarkable country.
mysticpass 1 month ago
never stop filming...especially when its rough...
coffeetablesex 1 month ago
@coffeetablesex Good luck on that one :)
mysticpass 1 month ago
I am a student pilot, and I have done some simulating engine failure training. But we never really cut off the engine during the training, this video give me great image of what a real engine failure will be like....Thanks for sharing, this video may safe my life someday..^^
yourcup0322 1 month ago
@yourcup0322 so glad you're taking training. Stay with the emergency procedures until it' natural. And may you never have to use it. Safe flying.
mysticpass 1 month ago
Great job coming out of that one!
thatcadguy 1 month ago
@thatcadguy Thanks.
mysticpass 1 month ago
Great video, great story, and a great outcome. Thank you for sharing this.
mh53eflyguy 1 month ago
@mh53eflyguy Thank you.
mysticpass 1 month ago
Great vid and great story...gld everyone made it out alive and in one piece. Well done.
AllanVictoriaA 1 month ago
@AllanVictoriaA Thanks.
mysticpass 1 month ago
Be safe!
Twostones00 2 months ago
wonderfull job !!!
youreale 2 months ago
@youreale Thanks. More than 20 years later both girls in the back seat are happily married and have children of their own. Gets me when I think what could have been, especially if the failure had happened a couple minutes later when we were in the entrance of Mystic Pass (sheer rock walls).
mysticpass 2 months ago
@mysticpass I'm glad that everything went fine on this flight. It's really a very inspiring story for pilots all around the world. May God bless you and your family.
youreale 2 months ago
@youreale TThank you. Merry Christmas!
mysticpass 2 months ago
Wow that was amazing! Glad u guys turned out ok!
incheon 2 months ago
@incheon Thank you. I'm very thankful!
mysticpass 2 months ago
One of the BEST videos here......Period
supersabrejet 2 months ago
@supersabrejet Thanks. Very kind of you. Safe flying.
mysticpass 2 months ago
Civil Air Patrol is a great program! I'm in the Rochester, N.Y. Squadron
lilpep116 2 months ago
@lilpep116 Thank you for serving with CAP. You guys are the best!
mysticpass 2 months ago
How come it's still noisy despite the engine having quit? I thought it would be silent, no?
bg11215 2 months ago
@bg11215 It surprised me how much wind noise there was when the engine was silent. I guess that old 1952 airframe had some "rough spots."
mysticpass 2 months ago
scary !
anAntagonist 2 months ago
Very nice job handling the emergency. Hats off to ya.
SteveD328 2 months ago
@SteveD328 Thanks. As a fairly low time pilot (only 900 hours), I'm quite sure I had Help landing the airplane!
mysticpass 2 months ago
how could you omit the best part of the whole video!!!
however I congratulate you!
Motherfuckersito 2 months ago
@Motherfuckersito Sorry we missed the landing...you can barely hear me yell to my front seat passenger "it's gonna be rough" just before he shut the camera off to hang on. I saw a ditch coming up too fast and was afraid we would nose over. Hard to blame him for doing the right thing! The landing was hard because I pulled up to make it stall before we got to the ravine. I've made plenty of worse landings though -- in good conditions!
mysticpass 2 months ago
Always nice to see a happy ending.
CaptainFantastic777 2 months ago
@parkerhale1099 Thanks. I loved that airplane -- fantastic ski airplane in the bush.
mysticpass 2 months ago
@parkerhale1099 No kidding! Nice to hear from you. You probably know it's still in Alaska, on the Kuskokwim now. Most gentle airplane I ever had (great one to have an engine failure in).
mysticpass 2 months ago
Very Nice, Very Good, Very Job.......
MrPapagaiodepirata 2 months ago
@MrPapagaiodepirata Thank you.
mysticpass 2 months ago
Very Nice, Very Good, Very Job.......
MrPapagaiodepirata 2 months ago
Very Nice, Very Good, Very Job.......
MrPapagaiodepirata 2 months ago
You picked a great spot to camp! very cool video.
02svtguy 2 months ago
@02svtguy Big grizzly tracks all around the camp area. Fortunately, I always carried a .44 mag in the airplane.
mysticpass 2 months ago
What an awesome story! Really nice landing. Very cool that you could swap the engine right there. Cool vid!
PirateSygnal 2 months ago
This is text book brilliance ..top stuff
jl49lo 3 months ago
A very nice job on your part. You remain collected, even with your friends and two daughters in the back, something I know few people would be able to do. For a moment there I thought the Civil Air Patrol was going to try and land in the field but none the less they did a fine job.
AAL558 3 months ago
Great! You're lucky guy!
adbarros31 3 months ago
Great job! I am interested in how you salvaged the aircraft. Rebuild the engine on site? Fly in a replacement engine and change out? Logistics issue that!
tolip11 3 months ago
@tolip11 A friend who is also an excellent bush pilot and an A&P flew in a borrowed engine (in his Cessna 206U), landing next to my airplane. Before leaving on the chopper I had walked off 900' usable feet of gravel bar. Using a spruce-legged tripod made from local trees, he swapped out engines right there on the bar. Only took him four hours! We flew my airplane to the A & P's hangar where he put together a "new" engine for me.
mysticpass 3 months ago
@mysticpass okay, you guys up there are super survivalists and amazing pilots and engineers! that is super impressive with the engine rebuild/swap out
georgethewondermutt 3 months ago
What a great job sir. As pilots we train for that, but it all changes when the prop sits in one spot and all you hear is wind. You performed as calm and cool as anybody could every be and my hats off to you. You remained calm on the outside, but I know your heart was thumping pretty hard on the inside. I have had partial and total engine losses in the past, but the area I live in is not even in the same league as where you were. Congats on a job well done.
TheTodd2u 3 months ago
@TheTodd2u Thanks. You're absolutely right on the thumping heart! When I climbed out my knees were very weak!
mysticpass 3 months ago
well done pal!!!!
cruisersism 3 months ago
3:07 =D
sandgar1001 3 months ago
Wow, great job of landing, and it seems as though the kids were having a good time in spite of the troubles. Alls well that ends well. Could you let us know what you think, or know what went wrong with the engine. thanks.
bparno 3 months ago
@bparno A ring broke in one cylinder, deeply scoring the cylinder wall and causing oil to "pump out" the exhaust on every stroke. Since the oil was all going out underneath the airplane, I didn't know there was a problem until oil pressure was at zero and the engine was ruined.
mysticpass 3 months ago
@bparno The girls had a good time sampling various C rations from the survival gear. Their mothers, on the other hand, weren't having such a good time as they wondered if we were alive.
mysticpass 3 months ago
nice video, great pilot!!!! Congratulations
cags84 3 months ago
Really nice fotage you got there. That is what I was looking for. Cheers mate :)
kapisko1PL 3 months ago
Nice video.
I got my pilots licence a few of years back, my instructor must have made me do about 10 hours of force landings without power.....I only needed 50 hours total to get my licence and thought it a bit over the top to spend so much time on the one thing. However, I guess your video goes to show that an engine failure can happen at any time without warning. This is the one thing you have to get right the 1st time, there are no 2nd chances to go around and try again.
69aussieguy 3 months ago
@69aussieguy Hopefully, you'll never have the "it's happening to me" shot of adrenalin, but if you do, you'll thank your instructor for all the practice!
mysticpass 3 months ago
You sir, have some balls. Great job with bringing the plane down. Unbelievable.
m33turmak3r 3 months ago
Awsome video..thanku...
rob10026 4 months ago
would of crapped myself
Lamborghini09 4 months ago
Excellent video ......................... :-)
Great demonstration on a superbly executed emergency landing. You could hardly have been better prepared for a difficult cross country flight over rough terrain .
Congratulations on a marvellously safe outcome ................ :-)
MrHelidude 4 months ago
@MrHelidude thanks. Very kind of you.
mysticpass 4 months ago
This makes me proud to be in CAP
FlabbyMcLardFat 4 months ago
@FlabbyMcLardFat thanks for your service!
mysticpass 4 months ago
@FlabbyMcLardFat Great flying and hail the CAP. They paid for my PPL in 1968. Former SAR pilot.
CFITOMAHAWK2 3 months ago
looks like you really lucked out with a nice surface to land on!
codyl1992 4 months ago
My first flying lesson in a Cessna 150, we had an engine failure at 5,000 feet. I was very happy to have my instructor there so he could glide us in. I still haven't gotten my privates, I should save up and go get it. I like flying. :)
OneSkiWonder 4 months ago
Thank you for sharing this. I have been a private pilot for 25 years and have had two engine failures. One in a just purchased home built that had fuel feeding issues I was unaware of.
This happened in 1991 over a forest with few lakes. Like you, luck was on my side that day as the prop stopped over the only lake in sight and I was able to make an uneventful landing. There is more to this story but this is not the place for it.
Our 172 with the 0-300 was famous for losing pistons as well.
pahoskins 4 months ago
@pahoskins Great story. Wow. The 0-300 was a smooth running engine but it did go through jugs. I could plan on replacing one jug or another every 100 hours.
mysticpass 4 months ago
@pahoskins wow glad everything turned out ok, I also have had my ppl since 88 (flight test date 8-18-88) and have always rented, (never owned a plane) from air orlando (orl 7 miles north of orlando int.) so planes were always in good cond. never had an issue with engine, also switched to the plastic license but still have my original paper one...stay safe
abcpilot 4 months ago
@abcpilot Thanks. Enjoy the air.
mysticpass 4 months ago
Nice job landing that airplane it almost looked routine! I experienced a total engine failure over a mountain in New Hampshire in a C-172 and ended up landing on a golf course so I know the "Pucker Factor" you experienced. Did you get the airplane fixed and fly it back home?
HHacker1959 4 months ago
@HHacker1959 A friend who is also an excellent bush pilot and an A&P flew in a borrowed engine (in his Cessna 206U), landing next to my airplane. (Before leaving on the chopper I had walked off 900' usable feet of gravel bar.) Using a spruce-legged tripod made from local tree