Bush Pilot Experience
09-03-2014, 05:23 PM
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Originally Posted by full of luv
Check in at the Alaska Bush Company for some top rate talent!
09-03-2014, 05:28 PM
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Originally Posted by esa17
If you think you're a good pilot Alaska will be a wakeup call for you. My first revenue flight after IOE I dispatched to skagway with winds gusting to 38 across the runway.
Flying in Alaska is the most fun you'll ever have in an airplane. That said you'll be wet, dirty, tired, sore and run ragged even if you never make a gravel landing.
Flying in Alaska is the most fun you'll ever have in an airplane. That said you'll be wet, dirty, tired, sore and run ragged even if you never make a gravel landing.
09-03-2014, 07:55 PM
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Originally Posted by esa17
If you think you're a good pilot Alaska will be a wakeup call for you. My first revenue flight after IOE I dispatched to skagway with winds gusting to 38 across the runway.
Flying in Alaska is the most fun you'll ever have in an airplane. That said you'll be wet, dirty, tired, sore and run ragged even if you never make a gravel landing.
Flying in Alaska is the most fun you'll ever have in an airplane. That said you'll be wet, dirty, tired, sore and run ragged even if you never make a gravel landing.
You forgot the part about flying up Lynn Canal at "500 & 2" while maintaining gliding distance to the vertical walls of a glacier fjord.
and to the real old timers it was called papa joes
09-03-2014, 11:51 PM
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It's always funny watching people who've never been there rip on it too. Had a few guys who came out in early fall for a class claiming how it's not really that tough up there. The first low vis/high wind day sent them packing.
09-04-2014, 12:47 PM
#16
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Originally Posted by HappyCrew
Oh my God, is it really that bad up there???
Originally Posted by Capt Chaos
You forgot the part about flying up Lynn Canal at "500 & 2" while maintaining gliding distance to the vertical walls of a glacier fjord.
09-30-2014, 02:51 PM
#17
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Originally Posted by full of luv
Check in at the Alaska Bush Company for some top rate talent!
Alaska was fun in a certain kind of way. Depends what you do up there. Im not sure what a bush pilot is but if you want to fly out west doing air taxi (which is what most of the flying is) youll get burnt out and most of it isnt in the pristine beautiful places of postcard Alaska. After your burnt out youll go home and after sometime youll want to go back for some strange reason unbeknownst to yourself. Maybe its the taste of brothers pizza, or sleeping on a cargo board in a 207, or really the people up there that make it awesome. most everyone who's there has the can do were in it together attitude and that what i liked. The flying is fun to and a lot of work. If you can get into the off airport stuff its an absolute blast and will take you to places most people never get to see. Ive always been partial to taildraggers but floats will get you there too.
Want a job there? buy an airline ticket and have fun for a week around lake hood knocking on doors. pm me and i can give you some ideas
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