Adventure in the Idaho Backcountry 2022 part2 - Bushplane vlog

[@divergentfuryan3546]

Best Bush Pilot Channel EVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@prof.heinous191]

Just got to say when there's nothing new on YT, GKF is the number one go to!

[@GravityKnightFlying]

Thank you friend!

[@jmoriarty7106]

Great Video Todd . Glad to be part of it, looking forward to next year.

[@GravityKnightFlying]

Thanks my friend!

[@hamlaser]

So cool to get an A-10 flyover

[@gregwatruba4541]

Yes l enjoyed you walking around showing us different places on the ground.

[@martinlynn3699]

Great story telling. That keeps it more than just arial shots. The only thing I don't like about it is that I'm not there. Thx for the hard work.

[@GravityKnightFlying]

thank you Martin!

[@thompsonjerry3412]

Less flying, more exploring is the point!

[@prof.heinous191]

Glad you're bumping into some of your fans, just thought you should know I've bumped into GKF fans the other side of the world, and not surprising really!!

[@GravityKnightFlying]

that's amazing!!

[@jimhuskyflying]

Another exceptional video. Thank you for sharing.

[@gregslaven813]

Loved the A-10's! "Merica!!!

[@turnbank3492]

Thanks for the tour

[@alexmikhael5061]

9:22 that ain't an airstrip!!! DUDE THAT IS SOME DUDES GOLF COURSE LOL :) pretty country!!!

[@robtebay1]

Watching your videos, Todd, is better than any vitamins! My batteries always feel rejuvenated after seeing them. Thanks

[@davidspeyers5740]

Agreed!

[@GravityKnightFlying]

thank you Robert!

[@klw141]

Good Stuff! Thanks for sharing.

[@n7gn]

We ate huckleberry everything on our Idaho flying trip this year.....what a treat! They are like the blueberries here in the S.E. Thanks for sharing your trip.

[@GravityKnightFlying]

agreed! good stuff 👍

[@randyechols3356]

Great Video

[@Jim_Austin]

Enjoyed this video. That’s some beautiful country you visited.

[@stevenflattum156]

Great job really enjoyed it. Just getting to know Idaho flying myself. The video was helpful for the next time that I get out there.

[@TRUMPMAGAPatriotUSA1]

This is some museum schit!💪🏼😎🇺🇸

[@georgelauchland7512]

I flew in Johnson with a group of kitfoxes saw you land but time I got to your plane missed ya, good to see you made it up north Idaho and to elk river my place is not to far from there stop in if your ever up this way agin. Depending on time of year I have a bunch of small improv to strips in hay, wheat fields also dug bar big bar and some bigger strips down on snake. Anyway love your vids and content keep them coming. Blue sky’s my friend George

[@GravityKnightFlying]

thank you George! appreciate that!!

[@halhirsch3606]

Nice video.

[@Kolbra2004]

Gees Todd, that was awesome!

[@oneninerniner3427]

Geez I don't know if I'll ever make it out to that beautiful country, but I guess that's why we live vicariously through you Mr. Todd GKF! Thanks. And They took a kickbutt gattling gun and built an airplane around it, you are right the A10 Warthog IS awesome! Glad it's on our side! I'd hate to be on the receiving end of that bad boy!

[@GravityKnightFlying]

agreed about the A-10's !! thanks!

[@countryboy1936]

Awesome video as always, so great to get to meet you, glad you enjoyed the huckleberrys. The A 10 flyover was fantastic!!

[@GravityKnightFlying]

great meeting you Grant!!!

[@WingAndAPrayer-RedBird]

Great Video again Todd! Thanks for sharing the adventure.

[@jimecee]

That angle of you slipping into shearer looked really cool, I don’t think I’ve seen that perspective before, great video as always. Fly safe!

[@Kymei-vq8pm]

Wonderfull video and places

[@liamaherne8460]

Every single landing is just greased on. Even in windy conditions. Great skill.

[@michaelguy7168]

Wow, your adventures and videos are awesome. Thank you for bringing us along.

[@davidspeyers5740]

Yes, just fantastic.

[@GravityKnightFlying]

thanks Michael!

[@doncatch1]

Wow, great stuff.

[@hughboyle]

Love the flying and the scenery Todd but like the the other stuff too. Awesome job as usual.

[@johnbrannon2275]

That was one of the best videos I've seen in a while. Thanks for sharing the adventure!

[@SimjetAU]

Another fantastic video Todd...just spectacular areas there...so cool with the A10 too

[@blifx]

gotta bring like a minisaw with you for trails like that lol

[@SteveN3695J]

Fun Stuff Indeed...!

[@stevenmorefield8154]

A 10s in the back county how much fun is that.

[@MaxRunia]

Those A10s were sick. On 4th of July morning we were on the boat on Lake Cascade and they did a pass about 500ft directly over us, then they looped back around and did a second pass. Guess those A10s like to fly the Idaho mountains too haha.

[@GravityKnightFlying]

that is rad!! they are so cool

[@sneakybow1]

They're based out of Mountain Home AFB. That's a short jump for them to Cascade!

[@weekenddroners]

I've been a sub for some time now and really enjoy your videos. You fly some beautiful country for sure! I'm a different kind of pilot...btw :o)~

[@challenger2ultralightadventure]

I wonder if using a 10K 10Watt wire wound resistor would be a better option than a simple 1/2 or 1 watt carbon. A 10 Watt wire wound resistor would certainly last. Cheers from Winnipeg. (oh... and I really enjoyed this video)

[@GravityKnightFlying]

I like where your thought process is. That was kind of my hope with the multiple resistor approach.. I think I will have something more beefy on hand if it burns out again. Good idea. Thanks!

[@wingandaprayer883]

More fantastic scenery, very envious as looks like a lot of fun for a camp out. One query I have which is for sure a contentious one, the big tyres and the gear.. look just so draggy. All the places I saw you land in the video, surely a standard 5-6" tyre could handle comfortably? I understand for off field landings the big tyres have their place though. Do you do enough of the off-field stuff to warrant the extra fuel burn of the big tyres? Personally, I think I would swop out wheels according to my flying intentions just to be 'efficient'.

[@juststeve7665]

The bigger tires also allow for higher angle of attack on takeoff and landing

[@jmoriarty7106]

Off field stuff is all we do. If you fly long enough your going to have a engine failure and those big tires and gear will probably will keep you from totaling your aircraft . All of the places you see in the video are full of goffer and badger holes that will swallow a small tire.

[@GravityKnightFlying]

thats a good question... a lot of these strips can be done with small tires... absolutely. couple reasons I keep the big tires on.. for one, I don't have anything else to run, also, I did some fairly hardcore off airport on this trip (showed one of those on the part 1 video). so I do like having the plane setup and capable for off airport at any time. since thats 99% of what I do when at home anyway. As John mentioned.. if something goes wrong, they really do pay off when it happens. also.. the gear is surprisingly draggy as well.. so smaller tires would give back some speed, but the gear robs a lot as well, and I'd still be fairly slow lol... also though, something to consider as John said.. a lot of these strips are pretty nice, but will occasionally have a gofer hole, or some weird thing its best not to hit. the large tires do give you a lot of margin. i see guys bring in stuff thats pretty fast, heavy, and has small tires.. and it generally works out fine.. but their margin is pretty slim on some of these strips. that far from home, its nice to have everything in your favor. Now.. if you have a plane with smaller tires, does it mean you shouldn't come up and play.. hell no! Might be a few strips worth sitting out, but overall, it's worth doing.. but in my case, I'll give up the few mph to have the above positives. I would like to put fairings on the gear legs and shocks though, there is a good 5-7mph to gain back there if done right! I've looked at a few ways to do it, but everything is pretty hokey if I want to keep it light.

[@rf-ko9vm]

Love the videos I'm a bit of a worrywart though. Is it just the camera angle or do you have a big bump on the left side of your neck kind of just below the left ear? I know the guy on HGTV that did flip or flop had some bump on his neck in the front and somebody noticed it and told him and it turned out he had cancer. Don't wish anything bad for you but you might want to get that looked at. Or at least you're verify was just a weird camera angle lol. 🤣

[@GravityKnightFlying]

its a fatty cyst (best they can tell without poking it... not attached to anything- floats in the skin, no pain or feeling). ive had it about 10 years or so. one of these days ill get it removed! appreciate the concern!

[@alexmikhael5061]

do you take a fishin rod back in there?? awesome adventures!!

[@GravityKnightFlying]

I don't generally. This year I would have had the time to fish a little, and that would have been fun. One of these years maybe. There is some great fishing in some of these spots I'm told (not a big surprise!)

[@alexmikhael5061]

@@GravityKnightFlying some of them look like they have SERIOUS EFFORT to get to!!! should be a few hungry fish ;) a fewmore than ''sinkin a hook off the pier..at the beech'' lol ;)

[@alexmikhael5061]

@@GravityKnightFlying one of the BUSH PILOTS did a thing on ''compact fishing rods'' I remember several FAILS... but I thought I rememberd one that lasted a little longer... hummm may have to try to search that one up again... was a year or 2 ago now tho... and I don't kno if the FAILS were really the RODS fault or the PILOTS for ummm misstreatment, of some form or another ;) LOL I do remember 2 got borken or at least ''messed up'' between packing-ump[acking there was breakage... eh... maybe some clips to keep it up along the top corner rails instead of down in the GEAR, was my suggestion to him then... my suggestion to you now ;) erases the need for a HEAVY CASE or wuttever... ;) BUT HIKEING INTO, AND GETTIN OUT THERE IN THE NATURE IS THE INTENT AND POINT and you are doing a SEEMINGLY SPLENDID JOB AT DOING JUST THAT!!! :) thanks for takin us along!! :) and SAFE TRAVELS so you can continue doing so!! :)

[@markstoll9636]

never mind you explained later in the video

[@colincarmichael5317]

Could you fly Trikes into some of these places? What are the winds like?

[@GravityKnightFlying]

If you are talking trikes as in weight shift..good question, I don't know enough to give you real good feedback. But I don't see why they couldn't go into a lot of these strips!? End of June the winds are generally pretty good. Afternoons get sporty and bumpy... mornings are almost always good.. evenings are often nice. Between looking at weather reports, the windy app, and flying up there each year.. my experience says that section of the rockies is much calmer than my section where I live in CO.. its windy here a lot.

[@davidspeyers5740]

You get off a lot quicker and climb out a whole lot steeper than that Legend Cub. How do they compare on the top end for speed and fuel burn?

[@jmoriarty7106]

David Todd cruises about 10 miles an hour faster than me. My stall speed is 10 miles an hour slower than his. As far as getting off guicker, I didn't know we were competing . I Didn't trying very hard. His plane does perform well no doubt about it.

[@davidspeyers5740]

@@jmoriarty7106 Thanks for the reply. Both a quite capable airplanes it looks like. What fun!

[@GravityKnightFlying]

Yea as John said, he wasn't really pushing his. I think if he worked his harder, they would be pretty comparable on take off distance. At sea level, he would beat me. Down at lower altitudes, I had trouble keeping up with his climb. If I left it in the high boost map, I could hang, but I don't like doing that more than the first say 30 seconds. Once we get to higher altitudes (not sure exactly where the cross over is) I can then outclimb him. Makes sense being turbocharged etc. Our fuel burns were an interesting topic... we did some 1.5hr ish flights, and it seemed like I burned around 1.5-2 gallons less. That's pretty good fuel burn on that heavier Legend cub. The electronic ignition really helps on those... if it had electronic fuel injection too, like me, it would tighten that up a lot! The titan 180 is a well performing engine!

[@markstoll9636]

this is odd. i cant imagine what animosity there would be between rafters and pilots. theyre on a river and pilots are in the sky. the two couldnt be further apart. could you further explain? thanks

[@GravityKnightFlying]

A lot of the rafters (definitely not all), don't want airplanes making noise while they are on the river. There is a big war in Idaho that has been raging for some time. They want it quiet, they want it all for themselves, and some of them have some real money to put behind it. Even though they often times get hauled in to raft by plane, they don't want us out there. They are constantly petitioning the forest service to close all these strips in the wilderness.

[@markstoll9636]

@@GravityKnightFlying wow..i never knew that. Selfish individuals. Thats why its called public land

[@deani2431]

Would be great if you would give the coordinates of your locations.

[@Backcountrysimpilot]

Do you have an airport list so I can fly this route on msfs?

[@antonioiozzi9171]

It would be nice if you write on video the names of airstrips and their official code, so we we can follow you on Goggle Map!

[@justinparker7795]

Ilander???

[@prof.heinous191]

Britten-Norman Islander.

[@teddymckinney1654]

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