"Land Here? You Bet!" is a true-life, coming-of-age tale about a young pilot in the early 1950's who, by a stroke of good luck, got the chance to live his dream.

While working at his uncle's sea plane facility for the summer, Ted Huntley, a twenty year old college student, discovered that one of his uncle's clients had a problem. The man, a bush pilot, had a contract with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, a forerunner of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He was to provide six planes and six pilots for one of the survey teams they had in Alaska to help map the territory for the installation of a radar tracking system. The planes would be used in the bush, to haul personnel and equipment. The six planes had just been equipped with pontoons, and their pilots were scheduled to take off in them first thing the next morning. However, at the last moment, one of the pilots dropped out of the project.

Huntley is not sure where he got the courage to ask for the job, but he did. In spite of his youth and lack of bush experience, probably out of desperation, the bush pilot hired him.

What followed was two adventure-filled summers during which Huntley was initiated into the world of bush flying. But it took Ted Huntley one more summer, this time flying off glaciers for a prospector in British Columbia, to complete his initiation.

"Land Here? You Bet!" is, first of all, an entertaining memoire. It is also a primer on bush flying for any pilot who has ever dreamed of flying the Alaskan bush, and a pleasant memory jogger for those who have flown it. For the reader who has never flown, it is an opportunity to savor the experience vicariously. " Land Here? You Bet!" is also about daring to have dreams, and the courage to pursue them.