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Originally Posted by Yak52Driver
I can only imagine how the creek would have felt if the engine quit.  Your pattern was way to low for me.
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I flew into Johnson Creek and several other backcountry strips when my friend took the Mountain Flying course out of McCall. We were in a 182 with the wheel pants off. The video looked exactly how we were instructed to fly the pattern. The canyon is not wide enough to do it any other way. You hug the side of the canyon, make your turn and drop in.
Johnson Creek is one of the easier strips they take you to in the mountain flying school. There is one strip on the Snake River that is REAL scary. We skipped that one! Jason Elam was in the course and flew his beautiful Beaver into places I wouldn't take my ATV.
This is where we went to the flying school.
http://www.mountaincanyonflying.com/
The owner - Lori is great and the ground school is as good as the flying