At home on the range To launch the AOPA Pilot series "General Aviation Serves America," photographer Mike Fizer and author Alton K. Marsh traveled to northeastern Montana where they met with rancher Travis Nelson. Nelson's 1958 Aeronca Champ-which he calls the Cowboy Cadillac-was a natural to illustrate pilots and aircraft at work. "I remember thinking, My God, this is the shot," Fizer said. Fizer was about 100 feet from Nelson, who was initially standing at the airplane. "I yelled at him to sit down and he just did so naturally." Fizer took the shot with his Canon FD Mark III camera at F2.8 and it all "just fell together." MIKE FIZER Subject: Rancher Travis Nelson and his 1958 Aeronca Champ Date: May 21, 2009 Where: 20 miles south of Opheim, Montana Photographer: Mike Fizer www.aopa.org/pilot AOPA PILOT | 79http://www.aopa.org/pilot