Backcountry Aviation Radio

CC Pocock — 950 Pilots Trained: Rethinking How Backcountry Flying Is Taught

July 29, 2026·1h 32m
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CC Pocock has spent over two decades flying in some of the most remote, unimproved terrain in the world, and now runs a one-man flight school in the Nevada desert that's trained more than 950 pilots. He's the author of Bush and Mountain Flying, now in its third edition, and just launched his own podcast and YouTube channel, Bush Air. We get into the real distinction between "bush flying" and "backcountry flying" — a line most pilots blur — and where CC thinks formal flight training falls shor...

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