Year: 2013

So our chosen route out of Fort Nelson was to High Level, knowing that we wouldn’t be able to follow any roads. It actually turned out not to be an issue as there was pipe […]

The big decision…do we spend the time to head north east to Yellowknife from Fort Nelson or do we start home?? So close and yet so far! We debated right up to the last minute […]

The Rebels are tied down for the night in Fort Nelson. Note the wind sock between them. You can’t miss it …… straight out! We booked into the Woodlands Inn, who sent a van to […]

We’re approaching Fort Nelson – it had been the second day of difficult flying. Certainly the tail wind was a welcome change as we actually reached 105 to 110 knots on a good portion of […]

It was a welcome scene as we came out of the mountains and looked along the highway towards Fort Nelson. Show Full Size Photo

I’m up at 8000′ trying to stay out of the turbulence. We again had 20 knot tail or quartering winds with plenty of gust to keep us struggling with the controls. It was unusual to […]

We’re at Watson Lake and Tom is draped over his tail cone in order to hold it down, while the helicopter lands at the fuel tanks. Show Full Size Photo

We are just about to turn the corner and head down towards Teslin and ran into some brief showers and yes…..some wet snow. The good news was that we turned away from it about 5 […]

We didn’t necessarily want to fly the same route, but out here there’s not that many choices. H’mmmm clouds in the distance. Show Full Size Photo

We left Whitehorse about 7:30 am so that we could fly in some smoother air, in theory! It was 7 degrees at 5500′ Show Full Size Photo

We spent the day in Whitehorse so that the ladies could catch their flights and we spent our time doing some maintenance on the aircraft. Victor Menkal, a Zenair 701 Builder, was kind enough to […]

The controller was great in helping us find the airport and turned on the runway lights to make sure we could see it ok. (it’s 18:30) A Super Cub pilot, about 20 minutes before us, […]

We’re about 20 NM out of Whitehorse, so we slipped to the left over Lefarge Lake to run up the valley to the airport. The temperature was 27 degrees in Dawson City and 14 in […]

We had to stop at Carmacks and we’re happy to run into a couple of local pilots that arranged for a little fuel. We wanted to make sure we had extra in case we had […]

We left Dawson City about 13:30 on July 1st to head back to Whitehorse. We felt it was the best place, in order for our wives to get their flights to Vancouver and Toronto respectively. […]