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Good job

very thanks for detail explanation.

Been waiting on this one!

Just remember the cuts on the ring gear teeth face the starter gear so there on the aft. Also the inner chamfer faces forward plus part numbers face the starter. Use 375°on ring gear if you put the ring gear support in the freezer.

It’s been a gorgeous couple days up here in Anchorage, wish I was flying up to the glaciers. Have you seen the Dr Seuss house? It’s between Willow and Talkeetna. Someone built a house and then kept adding floors. It has 14-17 floors and looks like it’s out of a Dr Seuss book.

Great video Vic....we (wife and I) are heading up to Alaska by boat in a month. I am taking a flight (floats) out of Anchorage to see the glaciers....this was sort of a primer for me....maybe fly the RV-4 up there someday again for posting.........🙂

I was up in June, not in my RV7 this time, and took an air tour out of Talkeetna. It was an experience as epic and life-altering as that shown in Vic's video. Definitely pay attention to the ADS-B picture and self-announce as required. I flew with Talkeetna Air and as a retired DPE can report that I found no faults with the pilot's professional mountain flying. I recommend spending the extra bucks for landing on the glacier and landing at Talkeetna to spend a full day in that fabulous town.

Thanks for the great pictures and tutorial! I learned to fly out of the old Wasilla, Ak airport before they moved it out of downtown. Beautiful place to fly for sure! Just recently found your channel and really like the informative content you produce. Thank you.

I’m sold! My brother lives in Skagway, just north of Juneau. Next summer I think I’ll take the route to Whitehorse and come down. Thanks for the inspiration and all the pictures, video, and explanation.

Boy that's a lot of water to fly over in a single engine. Most of us fly down cook inlet further before crossing. Also, Skilak is Ski-Lac. So interesting seeing this from a non-local perspective. The route you took would be very uncommon for a local.

hahahaha, the nic arm.... The locals call it the Kah-Nic arm.

Beautiful flight. Interesting fact: 90% of Canadians live within 100 miles of US border. Along your route there are vast stretches without a soul. Pack survival gear and a good satellite phone or rescue beacon.

I enjoyed the travelogue. I’ve driven to Homer and it’s a great trip. The vastness of Alaska has concealed the whereabouts of several downed aircraft for many years. It is a hazardous place to operate with very unpredictable weather. Thanks for posting this.

Sure video would be nice, but these voiceover slideshows remind me of gathering around the super 8 projector casting soundless video onto a hung up white bedsheet for the family vacation review. Nostalgic.

We just had our Hartzell prop overhauled by Aircraft Propeller Service in Lake Zurich, Illinois. They did a great job but it was pricey. $4,600

Good tip, thanks

Thanks for posting this. I’m thinking about doing this trip in my RV6. I’ve driven it twice.

Enjoying these videos Vic, they also reminded me to do my yearly note to AOPA & congressional representatives about getting BasicMed approval from our Canadian friends.

Outstanding! Thanks for sharing.

Rode my motorcycle to Alaska several years ago, now the goal is to fly there.

Loving these videos!

Old home week for me. Flew my taxi aircraft back to Washington from Alaska each Spring and fall, usually this route. A lot of the logged off area has regrown since 94 or so. Thanks for the vid. Flying north south East and west

As a former Army UH-1H pilot. Low level is not a problem. Not as beautiful, but this reminds me of my trip through W. VA, as I followed the river and freeway, (per my instructors advice) west to get my new 601 home from Roanoke to NE.

VFR over the top is available in Canada as an extra rating, it's included with the IFR rating. I managed to get mine a few years ago as I was doing IFR training. I believe US private pilots get OTT with their certificates, is that the case? Like night privileges.

Thank you very much for this very interesting video: I have an RV-7 in the south of Spain and I have installed the baffle seals that VANS sent me with the FWF kit and after less tan 200 hours of engine operation, I have already noticed that these baffle seals have lost a significant rigidity and my CHT are rising. I am going to change them. Why don't you use the baffle seal retainers strips?

Fantastic!

Thanks for sharing!

stunning!

Thank you for sharing your expertise and posting these short videos with tips. very informative and im learning a lot.

I installed an Electroair ignition in place of my right slick mag on my IO390. The right mag had the tach sensor so I have to use the Electroair tach signal from the control module. My left slick mag uses the slickStart and cannot have the tach sensor from the right installed due to the incompatibility with the slickStart system. So now when I perform a mag check I lose tack signal from my EIS and have to use my cable driven tach to check rpm drop. Not a huge issue since the cable driven is technically the primary instrument for RPM. Just wondering if your resistor method from the P-lead to the surefly module has an equivalent I could use to get a tach signal to my JPI 830 when the right EIS is off? I already mentioned to Electroair that it would have been helpful if they allowed the system to keep the tach signal active even when the Electroair was deactivated during the mag check. I use the Electroair mag switch which uses the individual rocker switches and push button from start. (Very convenient for preoiling engine).

Looks good Vic,Thanks for the updates!

Where did you get the new coils?

About to do this on my RV14A & I am now puzzled about bleeding the "master cylinders". I thought the process was to simply start at the caliper of each wheel, fill that line to the single firewall reservoir & only fill the reservoir slightly less than halfway. That leaves room to bleed the second brake. In the end with both lines filled & bled the reservoir should be about 2/3 to 7/8 full. I'm I on the right track..?

Wow...that single shear...cantilevered bolt lower master cylinder mount is very sketchy. Strange that the upper attachment looks stout, and is double shear, but they have the exact same force applied to them.

What airport in Edmonton did you stage from? MyRV10 is at Edmonton Josephberg CFB6

Is that orange rtv between case halves?

very familiar with the area from this leg. I've flown to Jasper, but no further west yet. Having lived in Prince George for the last 20 years of the previous millenia, I made that drive to Edmonton many time. Neat seeing it from the air.

Very Nice...

Cool video! I've been flying for 30 years, but doing a trip like this would scare the hell out of me. Having little info on the weather ahead and few landing options just makes it feel like its not worth the risk. I have respect for those who do it though!

I like it

Outstanding video, Vic! You are a great aviator. Thank you for sharing your travels.

very helpful thanks

and thank you for your knowledge .its appreciated

thank you for the tip

A couple comments... The real reason helicopter pilots practice autorotations is because they're so much fun!!! A couple people commented about the amount of ground slide... Without knowing anything about this particular helicopter, I can call out two criticisms of that auto... First, it looks like he entered the flare going too fast... You can see how long he floated before touchdown. The other was the minimal flare. It really looked like he just leveled the aircraft rather than flare it. The result is exactly what you see here, a fairly fast touchdown and a long slide. Given that he was landing on a runway, not a huge deal, but off airport where things are often pretty rough, it increases the chances of tipping over. Someone asked about coming back on the stick after touchdown to decrease the slide. That's not a good idea, because as the rotor rpm decreases, blade flapping increases. Tilting the disk back at that point often causes you to chop off the tailboom. Generally you want to do your slowing down while you're in the air. Once you touch down, you don't generally want to move the stick forward or backwards...

very well presented . this one of the best on the internet

Apologies for the comment I inadvertently deleted. The aircraft spruce part number for the heat barrier is 08-00600. It is $27.50. Vic used 4 for the lower cowl on the RV-10.

Maybe it’s just an artifact of the video, but how did the inside of your cowling get its copper color?

Very good advice, as usual. I got exactly what Vic describes, some blistering on the paint. I added some heat shields on all the exhaust pipes that are anywhere near the cowl - seems to have helped. Adding the layer of aluminum shielding on the cowl looks like a good idea as well!

Do you remove the jumper from the ignition switch if you swap the NON-impulse coupled mag out for a P-mag? Ie: I have a standard mag with impulse coupler on Left, and installing a P-Mag on Right.