Flipping a Super Cub in Alaska's Backcountry 

So impressive, humble pilot and CEO, shares mistakes so others learn after he cartwheels his plane. Failure is an adventure!

Great work! Love it when people put their egos aside and admit to their mistakes so others can learn. We all screw up here and there, sometimes we are lucky enough to get away with it, other times we arnt

Great to see a humble person willing to take a difficult experience and use it as an educational opportunity for others. Great video!

The old guy at the end has seen and fixed it all.:)

Most pilots wouldn't admit any error. Good job analyzing what happened to improve everyone's chances of avoiding mistakes like this again.

Not many pilots will admit when they mess up. My hats off to you for admitting you messed up. Target fixation happens many forms. Dad warned me about it when I started to learn to fly.

I really appreciate you sharing this video. I look for these little gems to help myself learn and truly be a better pilot. Glad to see you walk away unscathed!!

Thank you for your having putting other people's learning from your experience ahead of your pride. Your humility will enable other people to be aware in similar circumstances and may save someone's life. Glad you are okay as well. Had a dear friend die when their tricycle gear flipped over after hitting something on a beach takeoff in Alaska. They went to pick wild strawberries and came back to the plane with 5 quarts of berries but never made it home. I worked with her in the fish cannery and she was loved by everyone.

Admire the narrative and, especially, your wisdom to helicopter it out! Great guidance to viewers!👍

Gutted to hear and see the incident. Glad you are OK... I guess you are a better pilot today! 💪

Thank you for sharing, I truly believe that helps others learn. There was one comment you mentioned about you should of pulled the power.... no no no! You loose the air going over the tail, which will prevent you from planting that tail. While not in water, I hit a soft spot at Friday creek a few years ago during breakup. I pulled power and tried to plant the tail but had absolutely no elevator authority without the prop blast. My advice, would be plant the tail and slowly pull the power, the key thing pulling that stick back all the way, keep some power in until you are pretty much a slow taxi speed.

Yikes! What a stellar gentleman for taking us through the process of what happened. Glad the plane survived!

We all learned about flying because of what you shared. Thank you!

Lessons can come at a very expensive cost in aviation. At least nobody got hurt. Thank you for sharing your video. Take care, Be safe.

thank you for sharing. excellent video, it didn't leave unanswered questions. very helpful. pilots perspective is the key piece of info in this video. thank you for your candor.

You walked away sir and thank God that you didn’t get hurt through this incident

I only had a single curled prop and you got both. Afterwards I often thought about if I had used the starter to bring the prop to level I could have saved it 🤔 I guess you just had to be there. I'm really glad both of us are able to laugh about our own mistakes.

Nice! I'm not a pilot but I do know it takes a 'Big man' to admit his mistakes. By doing so you are helping others not to make the same mistake. Thanks............ Respect!

Thanks for posting this lesson. Glad your ok.

Too funny at the end! Glad you're ok and, as always, learned something valuable!

Great lesson. Thanks for sharing a difficult day! Keith @ Gwin’s Lodge Roadhouse and Cabins in Cooper Landing Alaska

Interesting and a lesson shared is mistake avoided. I avoided real bad accident by paying good attention to other pilots shared experiences. Thank you!

Just glad you are OK.

Bravo on being able to point out that it was your mistake. Not many ppl can set aside egos. Thank you for posting this video, it shows character & someone wanting to pass on a learning experience. Cheers fr Kasilof.

7:31 talk about STOL!! jokes aside, I’m glad you and your bird are okay. Thanks for making this a learning experience.

Thanks for making this video. Very helpful.

Rarely do people share their mistakes. Thank you, I learned and so many others will too.

Thanks for sharing the lesson for us all

Very interesting. Good see the SC in the air again.

Good video - my homestead was in Yenlo Mts. , just north of the Talchulitna R. - Yep gets a little Soggy in that high country sometimes. Cub looked pretty good afterall.

Thanks for sharing your story.

Thanks for showing this.

Nice video. Us lower 48 pilots totally understand. Those improvised runways are the problem. I like the riverbed runways best in Alaska. Minor damage, no injuries, good to fly another day.Life is Good!

Cartwheel club! LOL. Well done and thanks for sharing.

This is the best way to learn Thx Glad ur ok

Glad you are ok.

Thanks for this , Being a pilot has humbled me from time to time as well. Heck some days I swear I forget how to land. After watching this I think maybe flying from the back seat might be a good thing when taking off from a very soft field , I'm gonna practice. I'll make a video just in case it goes badly.

Great video. Not many people would admit they were wrong and let alone, show it in a video. Many should learn from this one as you did. Thanks for sharing

Thank you for sharing.

Thank you for sharing. It's good educational training video

Thanks for sharing.

I soloed a J3 Cub many years ago. What a fun aircraft to fly! Not a Super Cub, but a Cub none the less. Never joined the Ground Loop or Cartwheel Club, but was very aware of how quickly it can happen. You were very open and honest and thanks for sharing. Glad things worked out as they did.

Cartwheel Club in PA 12; lost power over the Kenai Moose Range--landing looked great until we slowed enough for the wheels to sink onto the water.

My dad was a bush pilot in Alaska from the early 70s to the late 90s or so. He flipped a Cessna 120 or a Lescomb (I can't remember which now) on a sandbar, the wheels dug in on the landing and it slowly flipped over. No one was hurt though.

Thanks for explaining. How much did it cost for the helicopter to fly it out of there?

The very last line is a gem. All's well that ends...expensively.

Glad I waited for the ending of the Video of how the airplane got home! That was some vertical takeoff there to get it HOME...

Love these advanced 'propellerlets' to avoid tip vortices...

You walked away….🙏😎👍🏼 Would be great to know the total cost for recovering the craft and putting it back in service…?

Yea, that rough ass hay field looks like a great choice of places to fly off from.

Good ol' Huey to the rescue.

Yah new engine and prop but I saw surprisingly little Airframe damage, even to rudder. Was there ANY Airframe damage?

You got a great story to tell though!

Really some fields are rotary wing only. Even short take off aircraft have limits.

Man, I love the Huey!

Damn I hope everybody's okay that's an awesome freaking plane hope it's still good

I'm a member of the club. It sure is humbling.

Great team

Good video

man, so sorry. that made me throw up a little bit. How far out of the crank after the strike?

Thanks 👍

Always full stick back in soft conditions. -another thing... big tires are no good in snow, they create more drag. Been there, done that. Western NY where REAL snow falls.

I'll bet that cost you a buck or three to get back home. I did the same to the prop on mu Stinson in an off field landing in El Paso back in '96, except only to one side.

What's the hourly rate on a Huey? Oof. Glad you're okay!

So what’s the cost of a helicopter tow run now?

Great review, no ego. Shouldn’t ridicule or judge OTHERS mishaps..unless you like eating ‘crow’.

was that last guy in the video an A & P guy? he was a hoot

Can someone say engine overhaul? Ouch!

When it rains it pours. A combination of factors in this situation

Well the error to me is so understandable I imagine there will be pilots, even after seeing this, making similar mistakes due to the very narrow margin of error these circumstances command. But my real question here is the damage did not appear terrible. In other words what could have prevented you from replacing the propeller onsite and flying it out of there? Anything? The helicopter transport and all could not have been the cheapest solution.

I did the same thing in a F4U Corsair. It was an RC plane so not nearly as expensive to flip.

Why did you keep trying to get.the tail up???

That cost you some money !!!! Nice work getting it out from there.

Just soooooo freaking happy that nobody got hurt.....

Thanks for this video. Might be a good time to throw on an 0-360!

Cheapest insurance = 35" ABW :)

I can't imagine what it cost you to have a chopper carry you out

That's the new experimental winglet prop..LOL

The whole thing is so far from standard soft field takeoff! At least you have learned an expensive lesson.

Thanks 🙏

Happens to the best of us. If you fly bush you're going to get in some sketchy situations.

31s? 8241?

That's some expensive moose right there. Glad you got it home

8:04 - What's that mounted on the wing?

The first time I landed on pavement, with tundra tires, I bounced for a mile!

Thanks for the great lesson learned. I’ll be looking out for those wet fields and practicing aborted take offs more as I get more experience in the bush.

😂"We just need a cape and we can mount it as a full curl". 😂

I wonder what the final tally on the bill for this was.

That profile works really well on wing tips Not so much on props...

Shit happens, and this guy can handle it.

Happens to the best of us It's not if it's when

Glad you weren’t hurt.

The biggest risk, that tall grass. Abborted take off is just as important as the Abborted landing.

Was in perfect flight configuration for landing in.......Australia.

Do you recon the plain would have not flipped if you kept the tail down until rotation despite your runway excursion? And another thought.. maybe flipping the plane saved you.. without the mindset that let's you abort a takeoff when you are no longer on your runway, would you have aborted off when you did not accelerate as expected? Thanks for posting this.. that way we can all learn your lesson without the helicopter and repair bill.. people like you make aviation safer! Cheers from switzerland (where we flip our cubs on the glacier ;) )

Das ist fantastical. 😀

having a winch on the plane to pull you up hills to a proper take off area

A take-off with almost no room for error.

Очень замечательный краш у нас тоже такие ....умеьцы имеются..

“Sometime school’s very expensive “.