Kitfox bush traiing

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After 20 years of building my Series 6, my first flight was in 2019 and since then I have flown 500 hours. A Kitfox is a brilliantly designed machine and flies like a dream. Anyone who has hours in a plane with similar landing gear configuration will do fine with a few days of transition training.

After about 200hrs in my Kitfox I did backcountry training thru Stick & Rudder in Idaho and found that I was driving my motorcycle like a bus. Nothing wrong with that really but I found I was missing out on a lot of fun. Immediately after taking that training, I shed my factory tires for 22" smooth tires and started having a blast. It was like a whole new world opened up for me being able to land almost anywhere. It's not just fun, I also found that the skills I learned in the backcountry helped me a lot better and safer pilot at paved airports.

After 500hrs in my Kitfox, I just took another two days backcountry training this week with Stick & Rudder in their 140hp Kitfox STI and it was crazy-fun. Landing at one-way strips. Landing where the approach in follows a river and you dont see the strip until the turn to final at 200' AGL. The biggest thing it did for me was give me confidence that I now know how to shop a field and decide if I can safely land, which direction is safest to land, and how to choose the all important abort point.

There are a number of great bush training programs but as far as I know, Stick & Rudder is the only one that uses the Kitfox. Regardless of who you do your bush training thru, I would highly recommend it to be able to get the maximum enjoyment out of your Kitfox.

Happy backcountry flying!

PS: I have no affiliation at all with Stick & Rudder other than being a happy repeat customer.

Photo of me on day 1 getting used to the STI before heading to the backcountry
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