Approach Video - Fish Lake, Idaho - shortfield.com

Approach video from shortfield.com - Fish Lake, Idaho

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• Taildragger
• Idaho
• backcountry
• piper
• cessna
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• STOL

[worldwidegage]

This is a friend's video from when he first started flying in the backcounty - 10 or 12 years ago. As for the critique of his landing - its a fine landing. I think it may have been his first time in there so he was carrying a little extra altitude for safety. Also, that lake is know for causing a big "sink" when you fly over it and several people have died as a result. So he was probably trying to avoid that too.

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[badkharma101]

Job well done on that strip. Don't listen to the armchair youtube pilots.

[jordan8705]

How do you land WITHOUT stalling? The plane has to stop flying at some point (hopefully right around touchdown)...;)

[wero8a1]

@jordan8705

I'm not the pilot but to make a low speed aprox you need to set the flaps at full, I think that the airplane of this videos it is a STOL( short takeoff and landing)

Greetings from mexico!+

[PilotGleb]

I want to fly there one day, it's a nice place for camp

[leeasutherland]

This is the correct technique for Fish Lake. You are asking for a slight chance of joining the vague white outlines that periodically decorate the bottom of the lake if you try and scrape in at the beginning since the valley cycle often has a downdraft at the end of the runway. I've seen 12 knots literally disappear just a few seconds from touchdown there, something that isn't even an issue if you plan to land a little long (it's uphill anyway).

[leeasutherland]

This is the correct technique for Fish Lake. You are asking for a slight chance of joining the vague white outlines that periodically decorate the bottom of the lake if you try and scrape in at the beginning since the valley cycle often has a downdraft at the end of the runway. I've seen 12 knots literally disappear just a few seconds from touchdown there, something that isn't even an issue if you plan to land a little long (it's uphill anyway). You also depart carrying a little extra speed.

[JayJay1990fromwiehl]

this is a better strip than at our local airfield...

[sAINT898]

@aviator147 I got that part of it, but the Fish Lake Idaho that I know doesn't have an open area like that to land planes.

[aviator147]

@sAINT898  fish lake idaho

[sAINT898]

where is this lake located?

[HOMeSKILiT24]

I like approaches over water, I pay attention better. LOL, I dont know what it is that makes me have better landings but throw a lake or 2 before the runway and wow cant tell I landed......... Thats a bumpy runway wow!!

[dearthpanda]

@mikegmbn I've noticed arm chair pilots talking about stall horns, but that's about it.