Huge thanks to Bryan for letting me tag along and see what a real bush pilot is made of. Its truly awesome seeing other young aviators follow their dreams and that there are still career paths out there in the flying world that aren't only the airlines.
VIDEO HERE (8:27 minutes)
Done a lot of that as a passenger. Would not change those experiences for the world. Not so much the flight but the places I flew into. Remote, fishing and hunting incredible not to mention forest unspoiled by mankind. Father and brother were pilots. I got to my solo and walked away. I found flying boring. I took to motorcycles.
ReplyDeleteAh, that brought back many memories of commuting from Juneau to a remote hydro plant on Ward Air. Sometimes a Beaver, sometimes an Otter. Fly out on a Tuesday, stay 10 days and then fly back (if the weather was clear enough) on a Thursday.
ReplyDeleteYea our niece was given 3 dozen real diapers at her baby shower. She tossed them in the trash after the party. My wife brought them home for me to use when I paint etc.
ReplyDeleteYou should check before you post, no diapers in as bush plane.....
DeleteI had a remote fishing trip via a bush pilot. He took us 45 minutes from Anchorage and landed on a 30 yard grass runway where he used about 10 feet. He showed us to the cabin and the best fishing spots. He took off and showed back up 3 days latter. It took almost all of the runway to get airborne. When we landed in Anchorage I don't think we took up more than 5 feet of runway. It was a 4 place Cessna tail dragger with big tires and big engine that apparently didn't have a stall speed. We had two 48 quart ice chests full of salmon fillets on ice. Half of it we had canned and the other half we has flash frozen and spread between the two coolers with dry ice to make the trip back to GA.
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