Section IV: Appendix

Illustrations

Color Photographs

  1. Author's Super Cub on the Nizina River, across from Spruce Point, circa 1968.
    • Author's Super Cub on a different section of the Nizina River, across from Spruce Point, circa 1968.
  2. Spring sunbathing, Alaska style, on the Knik River, circa 1981. Author's Super Cub and Belphi.
    • Belphi and the Author's Super Cub enjoying a coffee-break on the Knik River, circa 1978.
  3. Author's Super Cub on the Tana River, an area of constant wind and blowing dust, circa 1968.
  4. Author's Super Cub on the Tana River, an area of constant wind and blowing dust, circa 1968.
  5. Author's Super Cub on Knik River, circa 1978.
  6. Author's Super Cub at Fox Island, circa 1982.
  7. Author's Super Cub flying over landing area on the Knik River, circa 1978. Pilot F. E. Potts. Photo by Martin Cramer.
  8. Driftwood is often found on gravel bars and must be watched for, especially on bars covered with fireweed. This piece was on the Knik River, circa 1978.
  9. Belphi standing in the middle of the FEPCO Aviation runway at Spruce Point during the flood that finally washed it out in 1971.
  10. Dolly with Author's Super Cub at Hidden Creek sheep camp, circa 1969.
  11. New FEPCO Aviation airstrip, one-half mile from the Spruce Point cabins, circa 1971.
  12. Author's Super Cub, during a period of flooding of the main FEPCO Aviation airstrip, tied to two cottonwood trees in a field of fireweed, rocks, and driftwood a half-mile from the cabins, circa 1969. Note ropes faintly visible in photo.
  13. Sheep hunters breaking camp on a 500' mountain saddle strip at an elevation of 5,000 MSL, circa 1968. Wing of author's Super Cub shows in the foreground.
  14. Author's Super Cub equipped with Dodge Board Skis on Knik Glacier Lake, circa 1979. Shortly after this picture was taken, a pilot put his C-185 through the ice in the same spot. Ice conditions can change rapidly, and must be continuously monitored.
  15. Author's Super Cub, on old FEPCO Aviation airstrip (since washed out), circa 1968. Note the wind-polished snow, snowshoes tied to wing strut, and skis blocked against freeze-down. Note also the chains (they are hard to see) that go from the tiedown anchors to the ropes.
    • Author's Super Cub on old FEPCO Aviation airstrip (since washed out), circa 1968. Note how the skis are blocked to protect against freeze-down.
    • Another view of the Author's Super Cub on old FEPCO Aviation airstrip (since washed out), circa 1968. Note how the skis are blocked to protect against freeze-down. Also note the snowshoes tied to the wing-strut.
  16. Author's Cessna 180 on the new FEPCO Aviation airstrip at Spruce Point during the summer, circa 1971. Note that the airstrip is on two levels, each about 400 feet long.
  17. Author's Cessna 180 on the new FEPCO Aviation airstrip at Spruce Point during the winter, 1971/72. Note the Landes Airglas board skis with eight-bolt ski axles. Also note the spruce boughs marking strip boundaries behind the airplane (there are large rocks, logs, and chunks of driftwood on both sides of the strip.
  18. Author's Super Cub on wheel-skis, parked in front of the new FEPCO office/living quarters at Spruce Point, circa 1969.
  19. Typical overcast spring day during breakup in Alaska. Photo taken from the Author's Turbo Cessna 206, 1988. Note "rotten ice" on the lakes, especially those in the foreground.
  20. Flying "on-top" through Chickaloon Pass into Anchorage in the Author's Turbo 206. When the photo was taken, the pass had been closed for three days in snow and fog, with VFR pilots lined up waiting at Gulkana, Eureka, and Palmer for it to lift. We went on top, intending to make an instrument approach into Anchorage, but found the weather clearing in the Palmer area (though not in the pass) and let down through a large broken area over the Knik Glacier so we could take more photos. Photograph by Elaine Potts.
  21. Photo of one of the Author's cabins at Spruce Point, taken by moonlight February, 1970.
  22. Preheating the Author's Super Cub just before sunrise, Spruce Point, circa 1968. Note the two "Sun-Dogs" caused by a mild ice fog condition. The temperature that morning was -40 degrees F/-40 degrees C.
  23. Ernie Snowden and Dolly standing by the Author's Super Cub in the Wrangell Mountains, Alaska circa 1968. Note safety-cable installation and tire inflation.
  24. Author's Turbo Cessna 206 at May Creek, Alaska 1988. The log cabin is the local mail drop for residents of the area. Photograph by Elaine Potts.
  25. Author's Turbo Cessna 206 at May Creek, Alaska, May 1988.
  26. Instrument panel of the Author's Turbo Cessna 206, taken in the Tucson Avionics' Hangar, Tucson, Arizona, circa 1990.
  27. Wing covers on Author's wheel-ski equipped Super Cub at Spruce Point, April 1969. Note snowshoes tied to wing strut.
  28. Author's Super Cub being preheated at Wasilla Airport, winter 1978, using the blowtorch method. Note that the heat-source is on one side, and that the far-side air inlet is uncovered so the flow of heated air can remove the cold.
  29. Engine cover on Author's Turbo Cessna 206 in unheated hangar. This airplane has a Tanis Super System electric engine heater that is good to -65 degrees F/-54 degrees C.
  30. Tanis electric engine heater installation on the Author's B36TC Bonanza. Note the fitting on the baffling, and the electric extension cord plugged into it. With airplanes whose cowls open through the use of latches, like the Super Cub and the Bonanza, this is the best way to do the job.
  31. Author's Cessna 180 on Landes Airglas board skis being preheated in the bush, winter 1971, using the double-blow-torch method. Note how the skis are blocked to prevent freeze-down; and the eight-bolt ski axles.
  32. The mountain pass from the White River into the Author's base of operations at Spruce Point, circa 1972. Photograph taken from the Cessna 180 by Belphi Potts.
  33. Author's Turbo Cessna 206 entering Chickaloon Pass from the Eureka side, spring of 1988.
    • Flying the pass between Tok and Gulkana in the Turbo Cessna 206, spring of 1988. Photograph by Elaine Potts.
  34. Flying the Turbo Cessna 206 along the Alaska Highway between Watson Lake and Whitehorse, spring of 1988.
    • Reflections, circa 1988. An off-the-airway photo, taken from the Turbo Cessna 206 while flying between Whitehorse and Dease Lake, BC, using pilotage. (This photo shows nothing about flying technique or navigation, but has been included here because I find the terrain very beautiful).
  35. Cover photo. Author contour flying the Turbo Cessna 206 up a creek in Alaska during spring breakup, 1988. Photograph by Elaine Potts.
  36. Initial position of the 2x4 and rope on a bush short-radius ski turn. Note the position of the rope in relation to the ski cables, along with the rope's tension.
  37. Final position of the 2x4 and rope after turn. The distance of the 2x4 behind the pedestal is important, and the rope should initially be adjusted so that, when the airplane is moved forward, the 2x4 ends up in the proper position. Note also the special eight-bolt ski axle.
  38. Dolly in front of FEPCO Aviation's first home, circa 1968.
    • Another view of FEPCO Aviation's first home, circa 1968.
  39. Dolly with the bear that attacked her, circa 1969.
  40. Bottom end of a tiedown rope attached to a public airport's anchor. Knot is the common bowline. Note that the airport chains were not used.
  41. Puzzle time: find the three airplanes in this photo. The Cessna 140 on the left belongs to a friend, and was correctly tied down. Also note the broken tiedown chain hanging from the tail of the Cessna on the far right. Photograph courtesy of Dick Rose, Hotton Aviation, Tucson, Arizona.
  42. Another view of the same event shown in illustration 41. Photograph courtesy of Dick Rose, Hotton Aviation, Tucson, Arizona.
  43. "Hurricane hitch."
  44. Proper way for those with "ring paranoia" to tie their tiedown rope to the strut of a Cessna 185, instead of to the tiedown ring. Note how one loop of the rope goes through the tiedown ring to prevent the rope from working down the strut during a strong storm.
  45. Elaine standing next to the Author's Turbo Cessna 206, circa 1987.
  46. Author at May Creek, Alaska, 1988. Photograph by Elaine Potts.

Charts

  1. Detail from the L-4 Enroute Low-Altitude Chart (Tucson-MESCA-Cochise Segment).
  2. Sparrevohn NDB/VOR DME Approach plate.

Cartoon

  1. "...The engine failure just above the ice -- as a startled cow moose ran out from its hidden bed into our path -- was impressive; the instinctive resolution of the problem enlightening; the subjective time-span until the engine caught awesome. My passenger never even knew the problem existed. I never forgot." (From Chapter 13.)

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