EAA's Coverage of the 2010 Valdez STOL Competition

[deetjay1]

THIS is flying by wire, guts and huge nuts...Just love this stuff...Too bad I'm blind as a bat...(((sniff)))...

[nocalsteve]

That Carbon Cub looks awesome!

[lordsimonofsealand]

great video!

[easygtr]

RESPECT!!!

[stolflyer]

I'd love to see a good pilot in a stock Zenith STOL CH 701 (with 100-hp and tricycle gear) in this competition. While it may not win (every time) it would be a good comparative demo of the Zenair "Sky Jeep" light sport utility kitplane.

[wanderfurther]

Watching this is hard to imagine how anyone would fins helicopter necessary... XD

[AINGELPROJECT667]

Why do they all have the big-ass tires?

[oaney]

@AINGELPROJECT667 Because they are bush planes made to service and resupply remote locations, many times with short unpaved rough runways, making STOL necessary in the first place. These large tires allow it to land "off-road" if you will.

[stoichiometric]

This is just awesome, I love seeing stuff like this.

[frizstyler]

wish i could afford such a plane.anyway,i 'll build a trike on my own

[AVMamfortas]

Fan....TAS....Tic.

[jimbo4261]

#1? is a fuc&^% helicopter the same as a regular helicopter,,,#2 ? what a way to go doing what you love to do,,wish I could do this,,jealously love this video

[justincgs]

They are all piper cubs!!! 0:52 is friggin AMAZING... I'd still like to see a CH750 with a HOT engine and a nice prop compare to that INSANE J-3!!!

[750grAmax]

@justincgs There are a few Cessna 120/140's in the group.

[generalvetao]

Amazing ! 

[spud1252]

we should do this in the uk

[JayJay1990fromwiehl]

1:30 dude its a fucking helicopter

[Jimmyjet92]

i love this!!!! i miss flying

[hydrojet7x70]

Does any of the Flying Wild Alaska persons like Jim Tweto compete in this?

[hydrojet7x70]

How can you have no heart and click thumbs down????!!!!!!! Looser!

[venividiviciboss]

best landing at 1:25!

[TheSynthZone]

Being a passenger in regular bush planes in Alaska is a real good way to get 'closer to god.'

[kc5qnk]

@flyzapva - EAA is the Experimental Aircraft Association, headquartered in Oshkosh, Wisconsin

[trimar42]

ave

en france la puissance est limitée à 100 Cv

la performance doit etre fate à PLEINE Charge de poids transporté

le reste n est que de la PUB !!!!

[flyzapva]

I presume Era Alaska is referred to as EAA?

[hsguitarist]

thats a "short Final" lol

[jbrooks1111]

1 person had to be different

[Kanoee64]

This is frickin awesome!

[simreviews]

LOL OMG SERIOUSLY! ---->  0:54

[Putaspellonyou]

someone explain to me the usefullness of those massive tires, other than to cushion a rough landing on an unprepared airfield...just curious

[Wickedpenguin]

@Putaspellonyou That is exactly why they exist. They're low pressure tires, so they flatten and deform more easily than a standard tire. Instead of digging into the surface like a standard "hard" tire, the tundra tire spreads out and flattens on the bottom, distributing the weight and preventing it from digging in. That's good on snow, dirt, grass, gravel, etc..

[Barnaby504]

An airline pilot might say fly 75 hours in a month. That's 900 hours in a year. That's only 30 years of flying to get to 27,000 hours. If you say, started flying charters when you're 20, and you're about 50 now, that would make sense.

[900RedChocobo]

damn, humans are OP..

[Turok456789]

@900RedChocobo

Best. Thread.

[rodolobo]

In how much meters take off the minimun and landing minimun too?

En cuantos metros mínimos despegan y aterrizan?

[monboy10]

i call HAX at 0:55

[covingtonium]

@monboy10 yeah that fucker was totally hacking.  pwnzorz him!!!!

[twaticus420]

Alaskan Bush Pilots = Best off-airport pilots in the world. This competition in Valdez every year is amazing. Each year it gets better and better

[stevepierce]

Brady, I have watched this over and over again. I think you did a fantastic job of catching the essence of this event. It is like no other event I have ever attended and has a feel one only gets in Alaska. The camaraderie felt here is amazing, 300 airplanes parked on the ramp, 20 feet of snow piled up, tents pitched on the asphalt and Alaskans in shorts talking airplanes in daylight at 10:30 pm at 34 degrees. Thanks for allowing me to relive it over and over again.

[skipde]

not sure if it is time in the aircraft as much as it is numbers of take offs and landings....yes time certainly helps, but how you use that time certainly matters as well-

[PaperModelPlaneLover]

0:54 - 1:00 Wow!!!

[kevinsaysmoo]

Zac Brown has a funny accent

[ian9334]

what the feck is up with music?

[the1KGB]

Interesting and entertaining but not too practicable. I should know, I have flown bush alaska for 30+ years and I land off airport and take off with gross weight loads routinely. Such proficiendy is a matter of experience, not machine and horsepower

[EAAmultimedia]

@the1KGB: Every pilot I talked to in Valdez would agree whole-heartedly with you. It's much more about pilot proficiency than the machine.  That's why in the video when I was asking the pilots for advice, they all said "Practice, practice, practice." There is no substitute.

[helcio1960]

@EAAmultimedia There ranging from tires to certain types of soil with mud, gravel, stones and others?

[TailwheelForrest]

With all the Super Cub clones at 180 HP+ under the hood entered in the competition, why don't they load them to 2000 pounds and see where the real skill lies. If you can't get the moose out of the backcountry, who cares what your empty plane will do...

[EAAmultimedia]

@TailwheelForrest: On Sunday, they have a "Bush Challenge" category where 300 lbs. of "simulated moose" is carried in the plane as well. This year Paul Claus won that category as well with a 96' takeoff in his stock super cub. That's impressive.

[LincTexPilot]

27,000 hours of flying in Alaska.......whoah

[beckilegatt]

being there was one of the highlights of my summer! so happy I moved to this incredible state!!

[huevoiglina]

felisitaciones!!!!quiero un equipo de esos

[Scrapheap71]

I'd love to do some rock hounding in one of those birds!!!

[NismoZtuneR34]

Brady you rock man, seriously good stuff.

[N21X]

Outstanding!

[coolster450]

Amazing skill



[methomason]

Good job Brady. Read the article in Light Sport and this put the icing on the cake.

[fsxlgf]

makes my wanna go fly! (and try land in my neighboors yard :P)

[grande7777777]

wow nice

[Tuckie0]

Oustanding video! I Love the 0:55 Aprox at very High AoA!!!

[pazzabikes]

@Tuckie0 the thing is nearly a helicopter, what a power to weight ratio