Have fun farting around at 160mph !!! I hope you get oil and hydraulic fluid all over your tuna fish sandwich !!

 

I only fly them at airshows these days and fun is putting it mildly !!!

 

The Three is just a big puss* cat, you want to work out your legs move up to a Super Three or down to a Twin Beech with a 12G25 crosswind. And you won't get hydraulic fluid on your meal if you don't run the windshield wipers. Probably shouldn't be eating on approach anyway.

 

Sounds like you are a CAF member. My wife is a crew chief on a C-47 for the CAF with the Highland Lakes Squadron. Which squadron do you fly with?

 

I believe he's with the "other" side.

 

Yankee Air Force out of KYIP, N8704 " Yankee Doodle Dandy", a late build 1945 Oke City C-47D that sports the post war USAF colors she wore till 1970, a wonderfully rigged nice flying Douglas, lovingly tended to by a bevy of retired NW mechanics, I used to fly the DC-3 for love and money,now just love alone.

 

Ha, good idea but when I flew The DC-3 on the beaches in Alaska hauling fish, there was no RVR, just good old fashioned fog
Good old days.

 

Yup, the DC-3 is indeed a big ***** cat.
Got a few hours in the B-18, small, twitchy, noisy and cramped compared to the -3, but some guys love the -18.
Also flew C-180s, C-185s and C-188s hauling fish in Alaska, fancy footwork and crosswinds, but good fun. Back then. Probably too chicken to go back and do it now

As for OP: Go fly the DC-3 if you have a chance. Looks good on your resume if some old Chief Pilot looks at it, and you just may learn something about flying while you are having fun.

 

Great points from both sides, like everything there are pros and cons. Time will tell, we will see how things pan out!

 

If you are young enough, go have some fun in the DC-3. It truly is a cool plane to fly. There will be high demand for pilots for many years to come.
There are so many very unhappy people at both FedEx and UPS. Just look at all the *****in on this board.
There is really no perfect job that you can expect to have. So many folks have hired on at so many places thinking they have reached nirvana, and then.... wham bam thank you mamm, the rug has been pulled out from beneath them. Enjoy it while you can; then go for the gusto for the money. But, money ain't everything. Again, look at all the big boys that thought they had reached the pinnacle, and they are not the happy camper they thought they were going to be.

I've been a non schedder my whole career. I never thought it would end this way, but it is what it is.
I remember flying DC-6's for Tigers in Memphis. I remember flying DC-6's for DHL when there was 2 big airplanes on the ramp. I've flown Convair 440's and DC-3's. They are all so cool!!! Then came the jets!!
WOW ! Radials rule; Jets are for kids.

Rarely does this career end the way you think it will or the way you planned. Luck has more to with it than anything.

Just follow your heart!