Hilltop Landings with a Bush Plane

All right folks, it's been a while. There's Malibu taking off and another airplane coming in and we're gonna do some flying. I wonder if he can squeeze me in. Let's try. Tower, QNH171K, QNH19R, we'd like to do a left 45 departure. QNH171K, Concord Tower, wind 250 at 12 gusts, 1 niner, left 45 departure, QNH19R, cleared for takeoff. QNH19R, cleared for takeoff, QNH171K. All right, let us go in. A little bit windy today. Heading back to what used to be home, passing by those little towns I know so well. Stopping for gas and then I'm behind the wheel again. My airspeed is alive. Driving this like a spiritual cleanse, where every mile is a new beginning and every brand holds a new end. Eyes on the road, don't lose control. I'm speeding fast to chase my soul. Running through emotions high and low. Holding on or letting go. I'm fighting another day. Lights in the fast lane light. Riding high, reaching for the sky. I had it all but lost and fell back down again. Spent my time playing the game where every single day was a losing battle and every drink was a dead end. Eyes on the goal, don't lose control. I'm living fast, I've lost my soul. I'm driving to get away. Running through emotions high and low. Holding on or letting go. I'm fighting another day. All right, so we're coming up on this area here. South of the valley here. It's really nice. Very green and Jeff is here somewhere. I see him. I'll do a flyby on him. Emotions high and low. This place. This is amazing. There's nothing here and it's dead calm in here. Isn't this one of the nicest places that we've come? The last time I came here the grass was about this high. I was like IFR on the grass. It was crazy. I think you were with me. I remember it was some tall grass. It wasn't quite that tall. It wasn't so tall. It was like this big and it's so nice and calm. I love it. Was it bumpy for you Really bumpy. This is a great camping spot too. Jeff, your kit fox is looking so nice dude. I love that Behringer brakes. Thank you. Yellow color. Look at that. Super nice. Did you land on the uh this way? What about on the valley there? No, that's where I saw the pickup truck earlier. Oh, I didn't see anybody. But no, it's good. It's gone. Yeah. What about Rockridge? Rockridge should be good. I tried it but as I was coming in there's a pretty good little tailwind. Oh, tailwind. Yeah, so I decided not to. Oh, because the wind's coming this way here. You know, I've flown all the way up and down highway five and the wind's just coming from every different direction. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Should be one of your low flyby and one of your low wind. You get them? I got one. Yeah, I got two. Cool. Sweet, we got content. All right, man. All right. That's what we need. Want to do some more flying? you just tell me when. Okay, so we're going to do a right turn, okay, not a left because there's one I'm going to be on the other left side. Yep, I will make a right turn after departure. All right. northwest. Yeah, let's find a place. All right, cool. Have you been to Tetanus yet? Nope. I think it's this one just slightly to my right where all the cows are coming down the hill. Like on top of the hill? Yep, on the top. So I'm just going to do a low flyby and make sure there's no other side that are, you know, coming up and over. So I'm on final. Oh, okay. I see. I've always looked at different cows. And right about here is where I would touch down. Yep, that's Tetanus. That's where we were. Yeah, it's about a five knot tailwind, but it's pretty doable. Yeah, I was looking at the tailwind, but it is uphill. I can do the other way around too. Yeah, that's true. Let me make a left turn here. That tailwind is pretty consistent too. Yeah, that's pretty doable. Turning right. All right. I might buy us a little bit more towards the cow track or the single track there. I'm down. Do a recording. I'm going to step out and get your landing. Perfect. Fun, man. Yeah, this is so cool. You can't beat this. Yeah, this is a great spot. Yeah. Just land uphill. How you thought about the VG? Do you think it's helping you? I do. I think it makes the airplane feel a lot more stable, you know, at like slower approach speeds. Yeah. And yeah, so I like it. Yeah, I mean, especially like here. I could see you coming a lot slower than you used to. Yeah, that's fun. Yeah, this is a great spot. There's so many spots in here that you can't go wrong. We can take off downhill. Yeah, the last time we were here, I took that way. But yeah, you're right. I think it'd be more fun to take off that way. Oh, we'll take off that way. Yeah. Yep, you're right. Take off downhill. What are you thinking, Jeff? I'm thinking we've got daylight, we've got calm winds. We need to go find some more spots. All right, cool. Let's find a new spot. Let's do it. New place. Out of here. It's funny from up here looking at you. I mean, that looks tabletop flat. That looks like there's no downhill in front of you at all. Yeah, everything is so deceiving, right? Very much. All right, where are you at? Just on your six o'clock high. All right, off I go. Traffic. Roger. I'm going to check out this area here on my left wing tip. Roger. That would be kind of a cool uphill. Yeah, I think it would be. Traffic. Kind of aiming like up the hill towards that building that's sitting on the top. Yeah. I'm across you on your left. I'm now turning around. Dude, that looks really cool. Coming your direction. Are you coming in? Yeah, I'll let you take off. I'm going to keep circling to the right and then I'll give it a try. A little rough. Oh, was it really? A little rough. You know what? I can do without it then. That one was pretty good. It looked nice, but darn it, I hate the rough ones. How was the uphill? It looked pretty uphill even from observing it. Yeah, it was pretty uphill. It was pretty good. You got to put some power coming in. Right. So there's another one here which is kind of a curve to the little road. Smooth. Just got into a dip. I heard it in your voice. Yeah, don't fall into the ditch that I did. Try not to. That is a massive ditch that I just rolled into. Oh, it's a big one. So I told him that he needs to stop. It's almost like a downhill approach because it's pretty high over there and it's kind of a view when I'm kind of coming downhill. But the winds are blowing pretty good. I don't want him to touch that ditch because it's pretty deep. I was freaked out by that ditch because I couldn't see it. Dude, you can't see it. And I think what saved me was the shocks, dude. Really? It just took it. You want to see. It's kind of hard to see it, but when you get close and it's on an angle, so it kind of helped. If it was like a straight 90 degree, I think it would have nosed on that one. Yeah. I didn't want to freak you out, but I didn't want you to roll on that ditch. No, I don't have any shocks. You probably would be okay, but I just don't want to take the chance. I totally agree, man. I'm going to go check it out. Several approaches. It's part of the proficiency. Camera can't pick it up, but you can see it here. You come all the way from up there. Yeah, it's not. Yeah. So this is what it hits right here. You see my tire. You were talking to me. You're saying how smooth it was and then I heard that voice go. Yeah. If I had hit here right in the middle, it should be okay, but I just couldn't see it. Even there, it looks smoother. It's a lot smoother. Yeah. Yeah. That's crazy. So no wonder I was having so much fun. That's pretty, pretty good down. It's a very good down here and you can't come too low because you get across. Well, I mean, it took me once because I didn't know about the ditch. If I knew about the ditch, I wouldn't have done it. I would probably have tried a couple of times myself. That was cool that you kind of gave me a marker to shoot to be stopped by. Yeah. No, there'll be a, you never know, right? How, how the gear is going to try. It might, it might be completely fine, but this is a lot deeper here. Oh yeah. That's really, yeah. So it looks like the best spot too is where this light green area. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right, cool. Wind's picking up. Wind's picking up a little bit. Yeah. Well, I can, I can give you a full on briefing for the takeoff because I've done several. I'll let you do it first. I'll let you go first on the takeoff. Dang dude, that was a nice, that looked great. Cool. I'm going to take yours. Let me know when you're ready and I'll position myself and I'll come behind you. All right. Sounds good. I'm just getting a turnaround, start taxiing up. All right. I'm going to be on your left side and you turn to the right. Okay. Roger that. I'll be turning to the right. Traffic. All right. That was badass. Good takeoff there too. All right, dude. I think it's time to go home for me too. Yep. Sounds good, man. I'm going to go ahead and turn to the left here if you're cool. Yeah. We're going to cross to your right side and I'll do a left turn with you. All right.