regarding the aerial forest fire suppression in france , it is true that retired fighter pilots were generally preferred for many years, however some general aviation pilots were also hired albeit not in the same numbers , it is also true that the environment over fires in southern france could be v...

avionco ! if my memory serve me right they hired dash/8 driver for contractual work all over the free world, I met some of the dash/8 pilots and they were a happy bunch, but if business slows down they are the first to feel the pinch IMO

I think it makes absolutely no difference .. there will always be young people or less young people applying there, it is difficult but if you can take the abuse you might get eventually to fly there enough pilots either quitting or getting fired.

17.000 hrs + total short of military I probably done it name a place worldwide good chance I flew into it anyone interested in buying a logbook or two cheap also included all the stories associated with the times . since nobody want to hire me might as well try to sell on ebay boys look on ebay!!

$25 000 for dash-7 type rating , hard to swallow and justify. I did not get a call from them either I applied and with dash-8 and fokker 50 time in the thousands hours PIC level , I felt somehow qualified plus I know africa well having flown there before on four engines airplane .I will not pay $25 ...

one way or another buffalo airways brings the best and worst reaction from people in aviation . I enjoy all the posts as I am an ex driver from the green machines

stay tuned two weeks from now I will have an interesting post to submit to the aviation community on buffalo airways

somehow the ratio pilot/jobs must be around 100/1 with so many looking and so few called.
heck!! I stand with 17.000hrs many good years left in me and get not even a peep from potential flight ops. I guess the overqualified syndrome is real and applied .

Anyone know what the pay rates at Buffalo are for :

Rampie..............not much

FO....................not much either............ plus mileage

Captain..............depend on which plane .....plus mileage //and on bombing(dc-4) Pm me and I will tell you

Luca
before you think about conversion you have to apply for immigrant status in canada first. without you have no chance.
then you can think of converting your license then you can apply to westjet,

cat
thanks for the post I wrote back a long post relating an event in the arctic that you could have related to as well .but it disappeared in cyberspace when I pressed SUBMIT!
I will try later

Did you read the story I wrote for Todays Pilot in England about the time I got lost in the Arctic?

where do we read the story

Doc

in wiebenville
did you also drive the old bulldozer up and down the runway with the homemade grader
I remember doing the dozer run, sometime it was so cold, I would jump and jog beside the dozer while it crawled up and down the runway in blinding snowstorm .

I posted a picture and it was very small and not too clear I have managed to resize it I am still practising but it show details a bit better

Cat he was not that specific guy R.L has been now living in florida for several years, he got invited to the crowbar hotel in cuba but not for running drugs. we met and did a few trips together in KL on skis after his release from cuba. I think he must be around late seventies or early eighties now ...

J C

I did

WOW !! nobody would have called him that to his face in fort chimo. He was a BIG man with BIG HANDS last I heard some years ago was that he went to TC in Montreal.

I found the following on the internet which I think you find most interesting Moose you are a godsent . thanks for the very complete history of cf-kaz after it left PCA. I now have history of half of the dc-3 I have flown. J.C I did fly mostly FST on skis up and down the west side of ungava bay from...

MOOSE ... FYI you mentionned CF-KAZ I flew CF-KAZ in the summer of 78 for transprovincial airline in terrace doing the terrace iskut dease lake telegragh creek terrace run, then management sold it to pacific coastal .on july 22 I ferried it there in its canary yellow livery after which I lost track ...

IS THERE ANYTHING THE MOOSE DOES NOT KNOW ABOUT DC-3! IN CANADA..

wiebenville winter 73/74 attempted take off early morning runway 25 loaded with diesel bound for sachigo left wing stall right after airborne
can't remember the regisration

thanks MOOSE47 you are a living dictionary. now I can fill the blanks in my book. just in case you are interested cf-csc left engine was being washed not with varsol but avgas from within the shack on wheel that was wrapped around that engine and there must have been a heater inside that shack . the...

here is one of bob dale dc-3 CF-ADB over the james bay project 1975, picture taken from CF-BYK another dc-3
I opened the side window but nothing shows.

"My name is Chris and I am a Dakaholic" As you seem to know much about brazeau would you remember the registration of the so called Arctic seven operated by Brazeau air services in LG2 the one that burned on the ground during maintenance in the winter of 75 I believe . I was to fly that morning and ...

Were have the years gone?? I guess all of 60 + year old pilots with lots round engines time ask themselves the same philosophical question. I say it is a special club nevertheless ,and as such we should as much as possible get to know one another I personally plan to do just that ,going west and see...

heavy axles. make sense.. I now remember laurentian air service maintenance chief mentioning heavier axles during the time I flew PAG no need to blow up BZN I can see the diff. thanks for the clarification. I was relating my first engine failure(actually double engine failure)over LG4 as freshly app...