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You’re on short final. The runway isn’t in sight yet, but from evaluating the approach at altitude, you know where it lies: lined up with the riffle on the second bend in the river. Full flaps, you nudge the throttle slightly to hold your altitude until the threshold comes into view. From here on, there is no go-around. The controls are soft and there is little margin for error. Almost simultaneously, the strip comes into view, the edge of the river slips by, and the mains touch down.
Company Profile
In 1998, a group of pilots in the Montana Pilots Association (MPA) became concerned with the increasing loss of recreational and backcountry airstrips. As a result, they formed the MPA Recreational Airstrip Committee (RAC) in order to preserve, maintain, and create recreational/backcountry airstrips in the state of Montana. (For RAC information, go to http://www.montanapilots.org/backcountry)
The RAC has made considerable progress in these efforts through working with the Montana Aeronautics Division (MAD), USFS, and BLM. The MPA/RAC participates with the MAD and the USFS in the long-standing cooperative maintenance of backcountry airstrips at Benchmark (3U7), Meadow Creek (0S1), Schafer (8U2), and Spotted...
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