FLOATS ON FIRE | An Aviation Short Film

thanks foreigner, it's hard to float when you have a beautiful day, especially here in the fall, the first week of October. Maximum foliage is around us and we have been fortunate that there is remnants of a hurricane off the coast that left us with a nice high pressure up here at 70 degrees calm wind and an absolutely beautiful fall flying overseas so you wake up in the morning there's a little fog on the ground some frost on the ground blue sky above you know it's going to be a good fall flows the day of flight thinking about all the mistakes oh, I'll get you everything to close also brought your Piper PA 18 Super Cub from the 50s in Edo 2000 floating.

He also lives near another Cub pilot who couldn't resist jumping out. Work on a beautiful day, that's the difference overseas as we made the

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flight to Rock Lake. Cassie Ben and Madeleine, the lab walked on this mile long hike, it's right next to the road. This lake is only accessible via a hiking trail that is approximately one mile away. from the nearest road there is no civilization or anything on this body of water, the views here of Blue Mountain and the surrounding forests are incredible, please breathe, exhale, because they are strange as we fly on these quiet autumn nights, it's like looking down to a group. of mirrors you can see your reflection from the water the reflections of the trees on the sides and the beautiful reds, oranges and yellows look at the cars cars cars it's almost like trying to land in a mirror, you try to land and you don't have depth perception and you don't have idea of ​​how high you are above the water.

It's almost an optical illusion. When you get to land, you don't know if you're five or 50 feet from the water and if you try to make a normal landing and go in and take the power off, you may end up falling right into the water and it won't be good weather, you'll almost guarantee you'll hit the water sooner. or after you think you are going abroad. so we ended up flying about 30 miles northwest and ended up at Stillwater Reservoir at the east end of the reservoir. It is a small town on Beaver River in Norjawak. It is a true hidden Adirondack gem.

This city cannot be accessed by road. There are no roads to get there. This city, as autumn progresses, the water levels begin to drop in the reservoir, this leaves us with beautiful sandy beaches along the entire reservoir, not only can we enter here on our

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, but it also allows let more cubes show up and come and play with us Glenn is another local Cub pilot who flies year round and also has a 200 100 horsepower pa-11 with 31 inch tires that works fine as a full plane as long as you don't downsize Too much speed tonight, okay. In just a few weeks all the leaves will be gone the temperatures will drop the wakes will freeze but that's okay because we will be getting ready for another amazing ski season.

Hopefully you'll join us, then I'm stuck. I'm six feet under, even with all the different airplanes out there, it's still hard to top the Piper Cove foreign classic from 1941. I said sunshine, when you grow up you'll be fine.