Super Cub Float Plane Adventure

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This is a trip that Greg Miller and Doug Keller made around 10 years ago to Canada. We left Portland, OR. on a rainy morning for Nimpo Lake in British Columbia. This is the highlights of the trip with Greg's narration. It is a departure from the Big Rocks & Long Props video that Greg is known for.
Grab beverage of your choice and sit back and relax while you go on a float plane adventure up North in beautiful country.
I am posting this in response to a few negative posts I have seen. By the way, my channel, my rules. I will remove them when I see them so you might as well not waste your time. Give me a thumbs down if you don't like this video, or any of the other videos and leave my channel. That is the best way to vote here.

[@franteryda4730]

As of today, I decided that that's exactly what I want to do when I grow up. It looks so awesome!!

[@mauleguy]

As the saying goes, Just do it!

[@olibuilt]

I've been watching this for so many times. Awesome! We need more videos.

[@joshuagranger2416]

Pretty wild that the glaciers are melted out of sight.

[@vincentmolloy5660]

Awesome footage. The experience you shared of the two incidents you faced was well recieved. Thanks and fly safe.

[@mauleguy]

Thank you.

[@Leemaw]

THANK YOU !!!! for you,re TRANSPARENCY!!!

[@jcontracting]

I really enjoyed that video, awsome stuff. I appreciate you sharing mistakes and giving tips, lots to learn from.

[@mauleguy]

Great, glad to help with my mistakes. I would like to save everyone from making all the ones I have made over the years.

[@johnmorse5617]

You just proved it. We are all just kids in grown up bodies. Thank you for another outstanding video. I know you were feeling inadequate. Can I just say you are the exception not the rule great flying. Sir.

[@mauleguy]

Thank you. Yes inadequate is a good description.

[@Flightstar]

What an airplane! That babe gets off like an angel hell bent for the heavens. Those Hail Mary stories were a little unsettling, but entertaining, thanks to they barely made it out from becoming total disasters. Humbling experiences like that are good for our health.

[@rickbarrington]

Stunning visuals, slick production. It was mesmerizing. This is NatGeo level. Enjoying your experiences vicariously. - A boring small plane pilot

[@mauleguy]

Thank you so much!

[@jalbert222]

Nice video! I sure like electric starters.

[@Kevin_747]

Control freak.....nahhhh ! Great adventures always have some type of adversity to overcome. I'm one of those guys who got a float rating and haven't been in a float plane since, 21 years ago. I need to change that. I did put float fittings on my Bearhawk Patrol fuselage when I built it. Thanks for the video.

[@mauleguy]

Your welcome

[@turnbank3492]

Thanks awsome as always! Just out and about flying in Canada eh!

[@mauleguy]

Thank you, :))

[@airtightindustries]

I really appreciate your retrospective storytelling. It provides wisdom to future aviators. Living in the Pacific Northwest, people always ask if my plane has floats or if I want to fly floats. It only took one trip with an outfitter friend with a Husky on floats for me to realize that I'm a wheels type of guy. The workload only increases when the floats are in the water! My respect to the float pilots and early pioneers!

[@mauleguy]

I think if you have experience with floats like anything else it becomes just another great resource. We have so little float access where I live, fueling and storage makes it really less than a great tool. If I lived in Alaska I would have floats for sure.

[@freepilot7732]

7:25. I 100% agree with you.

[@theependleton]

Absolutely fantastic

[@roberthumphreys1316]

The story is every bit as good as the video, and the video is good.

[@701theboop5]

Thanks again Mauleguy another 2 thumbs up Video !! You have the best comentary and most interisting stories of any of the flying videos I watch..

[@mauleguy]

Thank you so much!

[@deanmiles3505]

Great video, Thank you. You get to fly in such a beautiful place. Take care, Be safe.

[@КостяИсаев-ч1ы]

Thank you for the grate mountain views, and knowlages.

[@mauleguy]

You bet!

[@GravityKnightFlying]

fantastic video and mainly commentary.... valuable lessons here.. thanks for sharing!

[@mauleguy]

your welcome

[@fly8ma.comflighttraining199]

Great footage and story! Thanks for sharing your adventure with us.

[@mauleguy]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@mauleguy]

Your welcome

[@donc9751]

What a great life!!! Awesome video and memories!!!

[@GC987]

Great stories (I had my head in my hands on at least one point) and I'm sure many a floatplane pilot (I'm not one) has had similar experiences. Thanks for sharing - although not the bit about the night time visitors !!!

[@mauleguy]

Funny, your welcome

[@TimberTramp]

I wish as a teenager I would have found flying! My neighbor growing up was a professional bush pilot in AK and I really regret not taking advantage of the knowledge he had. He liked me and I really think I could have gotten an apprenticeship with him and damn what a world that would have been for me…

[@andrewburnett2215]

Oh the dangers of hip waders! Great adventure guys.

[@mauleguy]

Yep yep :))

[@Mike7478F]

Amazing videos. A good and wise education. Things can go pear shaped quickly. Thanks for sharing.

[@mauleguy]

Your welcome

[@robstanton9215]

Well, now I know we’re brothers from another mother LOL!! Animals tend to be attracted to me too....Same age as well. BTW I’d definitely fly with you. Your humility is greater than your ability and friend, what I’ve seen of your ability is pretty damn good!!! Thank you again for sharing!!!

[@ludvikblondal9885]

Nice!!

[@mauleguy]

Thanks!

[@renevelez9444]

The real frontier is not just Alaska, its the mental expansion that occurs from realizing, you could have done real damage or killed yourself(if not others), but because of small factors of skill and quick wits, called upon at a critical instance...you survived! :) I am still counting on being able to fly the country in a small plane to experience all the wonders, even if it kills me. Somehow there is more dignity in that, than never trying and reflecting being an old man in a home with loaded shorts.

[@bernardanderson3758]

Beautiful sight seeing flying

[@mauleguy]

Many thanks

[@stevencrawford2425]

This is my favorite KZbin channel.

[@mauleguy]

Thanks so much

[@GATOROC1]

Thanks for sharing your adventure - love it!

[@mauleguy]

Thanks for watching!

[@MENSA.lady2]

Once airborne wheels or floats make little difference, but on the water the work load increases. Remember you have no brakes so docking can be challenging if there is any significant wind. There is a guy at Lake Hood Alaska making a fortune repairing damaged floats and he gets 6 months holiday every year.

[@Lickety-Split]

I really can't wait to get into float flying. I didn't weld float fittings on mine but I have a scout I'm piecing together that I think I'll dedicate to floats

[@mauleguy]

Yes it is really a super freeing experience when it is done right.

[@SilvaAdventures]

Great landscapes, photography and storytelling!

[@mauleguy]

Thank you so much.

[@moose7472]

Those flaps must be a Keller special🤠

[@mauleguy]

Yes, That was a flap he did before the double slotted was thought about

[@jwoodyr1]

Awesome video, awesome stories, thanks for sharing!!!

[@mauleguy]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@dk750022]

thanks for sharing, awesome scenery!

[@mauleguy]

Thank you

[@bernardanderson3758]

I agree with you on just getting in a aircraft with anyone because it’s not the ride you taken is the experience that cost a lot to look at before you say yes to anything including Flying

[@chrisluehmann3094]

What an awesome trip!

[@mauleguy]

It was!

[@MonostripeZebra]

Lovely!

[@mauleguy]

Thank you

[@danielbeards6259]

I am glad to hear the story about those Maui Jim sunglasses. I purchased them just for that very same reason. Nice vid m8

[@mauleguy]

Thank you

[@bernardanderson3758]

The last time he was in my area was years ago in his Black Modified Super Cub

[@piperarrowpilot9325]

Awesome story. New subscriber.

[@mauleguy]

Welcome aboard!

[@woodyair-line763]

It's like a dream!

[@mauleguy]

:))

[@lindsaylefaivre537]

Fantastic trip you two had, Love the Stories, cheers ftom Canada

[@mauleguy]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Bearhawk_Life]

Another great video, some interesting stuff in that one

[@mauleguy]

Thank you

[@carveroutdoors]

Glad yall made it out okay!

[@daxdadog]

Great video, and interesting stories too!

[@mauleguy]

Glad you like them!

[@chaos18E]

great story!!! I still see that cub up here. It is a sweet bird!! The person who owns it got a new SQ last year so haven't seen her in a while.

[@mauleguy]

Nice to have two to choose from:))

[@rayfletcher3683]

Great🤗👍

[@mauleguy]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@robtebay1]

Glad to find your channel, thanks to Greg Mink for mentioning you on one of his P1D vlogs.

[@mauleguy]

Thanks for coming

[@turnbank3492]

I have a 1946 7ccm c90-8 on floats and ski's. It works

[@mauleguy]

Excellent

[@silvanotavares7767]

❤👍

[@alaskancub7124]

Come fly floats with me in Alaska, I can show you all the bad things I can think of for you to avoid that happened to me over almost 2 decades of flying floats for a living in AK. 😁 Sounds like you found a couple...

[@mauleguy]

I might just do that, where are you out of.

[@alaskancub7124]

@@mauleguy out of Wasilla/Palmer area. We’ve actually met a few years back at Valdez, I think 2007 or maybe? Can’t remember exactly.

[@bernardanderson3758]

This is what Float Plane is flying all about to go places yours eyes have never seen and Looking at the Creation that our God has given us to enjoy his Beauty and I never thought getting a float plane rating would be worth it but now it is :

[@mauleguy]

Yes Sir!

[@ModelAV8RChannel]

Awesome adventure. Thank you for sharing. How many float plane hours do you have now?

[@mauleguy]

Probably only around 30. I put some time on a Turbine Maule, that was fun. I also few a Wilga for a few hours before the engine quit and I had to dead sticked on to the tundra in Alaska a few years back (not so fun). Fuel line fitting to the carb broke and it quit about the time I cleared a 100 foot bank on take off. I could not make it back to water, it was on straight floats.

[@ModelAV8RChannel]

@@mauleguy Holy crap! That was interesting I'll bet...how much damage to the plane? Glad you got out of that whole.

[@flyingmaniac3827]

what exactly do you gain bumping up the angle of incidence on a cub fuselage ?

[@flowershopdazejennybehling2615]

Tell me about the lodge you referred to...owned by Paul???

[@mauleguy]

www.ultimathulelodge.com/

[@flowershopdazejennybehling2615]

@@mauleguy thanks!!!

[@bernardanderson3758]

I know Bobby personally

[@shaydjohnson8700]

My backyard... did you do some low river stuff near squamish or was that a different river system?

[@mauleguy]

Not sure, I don't know your area well enough. I had to go to Google Earth to figure out where we were at so long ago.

[@shaydjohnson8700]

@@mauleguy fair enough! let me know if you ever venture back up this way.

[@Ko3n3k33]

Is there any common opinion whether aluminum covered aircraft are better or worse than fabric covered for float operations on both salt and/or fresh water?

[@mauleguy]

Salt water is bad for anything, either way it is not going to be easy on an airplane

[@ultralightaviationchannelf9079]

Subsribed. But man come on, more action videos next time with more live audio.

[@ryanhogan6509]

If your watching this you know paul

[@MrMad4mud]

Which engine in this super cub?

[@mauleguy]

Lycoming O-320 with 10-1 pistons