What was the most fun job you had flying

real.cowboy.pilot · Post by **real.cowboy.pilot** » Sat Sep 30, 2017 11:15 am

What jobs did you guys feel like you were the happiest and having the most fun doing as a pilot? Just gathering ideas on career paths!

marakii · Post by **marakii** » Sat Sep 30, 2017 11:31 am

Bush pilot/floatplane flying is for me my finest days of flying, especially the piper cub on floats with the stick. A great flying experience indeed for me.

floatplane flying !!

Big Pistons Forever · Sat Sep 30, 2017 12:34 pm

Consistently the most fun is Formation flying, although fire bombing had it's moments

HansDietrich · Post by **HansDietrich** » Sat Sep 30, 2017 1:32 pm

Probably the one I have now. Dash 8 at Jazz...

1. I'm not on call
2. I don't fly medevacs anymore

BE20 Driver · Post by **BE20 Driver** » Sat Sep 30, 2017 2:24 pm

Ice strip/off-field work. I loved the challenge of getting in and out of a difficult off strip field.
Airlines are boring places to ride out the sunset of your career.

Schooner69A · Post by **Schooner69A** » Sat Sep 30, 2017 4:40 pm

For sustained pleasure: probably with a company for whom I laboured way down east. While there and over a period of fifteen years, I flew
Cessna 337
Cessna 206
Commander 500
Bell Jet Ranger
Eurocopter AStar
Commander 1000
Cessna Caravan
Cessna Citation
Dehavilland Twin Otter
HS-125-700

Concur with BPE : there’s nothing like formation and formation aerobatics…

goingnowherefast · Post by **goingnowherefast** » Sat Sep 30, 2017 7:18 pm

Floats was a blast. Its actually where my username came from, because they go so damn slow. Lifestyle sucks when you get laid off every fall though.

HansDietrich · Post by **HansDietrich** » Sat Sep 30, 2017 7:23 pm

goingnowherefast wrote:Floats was a blast. Its actually where my username came from, because they go so damn slow. Lifestyle sucks when you get laid off every fall though.

Can you collect unemployment if you sing up to a "contract / seasonal" job?

Cat Driver · Post by **Cat Driver** » Sat Sep 30, 2017 7:29 pm

Aerial application.

Schooner69A · Post by **Schooner69A** » Sat Sep 30, 2017 9:07 pm

"Cat: aerial application"

Yes, I would have enjoyed that. Did a very little bit of herbiciding with a Jet Ranger.

goingnowherefast · Post by **goingnowherefast** » Sun Oct 01, 2017 7:32 am

HansDietrich wrote:
goingnowherefast wrote:Floats was a blast. Its actually where my username came from, because they go so damn slow. Lifestyle sucks when you get laid off every fall though.
Can you collect unemployment if you sing up to a "contract / seasonal" job?

Yes, but there's very few float jobs that are based somewhere you would want to live in the off season. So you are working for 6 months in the bush/remote area, and then 6 months with family. Great for single people, not so good long term.

Of course there are exceptions, Harbour Air, winter ski flying, etc. They are the exception though.

lownslow · Post by **lownslow** » Sun Oct 01, 2017 8:09 am

Best job so far was teaching at one of the evil puppy mills. Good pay, benefits, hella vacation, only went up in beautiful weather, top notch equipment, Monday to Friday and back home by mid-afternoon.

Don't ask why I'm not there anymore because I don't know either.

x15 · Post by **x15** » Sun Oct 01, 2017 8:46 am

Flying a Navajo single pilot out of Thompson, Manitoba. Great group of people to work with, well maintained airplanes, no pressure. It was tonnes of fun.

Monorail Conductor · Post by **Monorail Conductor** » Sun Oct 01, 2017 10:44 am

Twin Ottering out of YZF.

Hard work and long days. It was the type of fun that was usually fun AFTER the fact, not so much during ie drill moves across the tundra in january, loading outboard motors and large metal objects by hand off a rickety dock in july, covered in mosquitos.

I can sincerely appreciate the relative ease of bombing around in a dash 8 with the autopilot and a cupholder nowadays, but i do on occasion find myself missing "the suck."

altiplano · Post by **altiplano** » Sun Oct 01, 2017 10:55 am

Peeling around VFR low level BC/West coast in a fast turboprop...

The job itself was meh, but the good flying days were superb.

EPR · Post by **EPR** » Sun Oct 01, 2017 5:47 pm

Flying the venerable DHC6 Twin Otter up North in the following order: on skis, floats and then tundra tires for off strip work...fondly remembered!

Cat Driver · Post by **Cat Driver** » Mon Oct 02, 2017 7:13 am

We can keep this thread going longer by asking what was the " least " fun job you have had.

For me it was flying in the air show business.

chipmunk · Post by **chipmunk** » Mon Oct 02, 2017 7:41 am

Most fun was low level survey flying and the associated ferry flying all over the place.
Hand flying a Dash 7 at 400 feet AGL in South America was the highlight.

Least fun? Haven't found it yet, and I don't aim to do so

Flying Low · Post by **Flying Low** » Tue Oct 03, 2017 10:10 am

Most fun? That's easy! Flying a Supercub off logging roads doing recon for spray planes. Also flew aerial seeding with the Supercub and was taught the visual perspective (we used photos and eyeballed the lines back then) by flying in formation. Always flew upwind of the lead plane so got to change sides during the teardrop turn at the end of each line.

digits_ · Post by **digits_** » Tue Oct 03, 2017 11:13 am

Instructing on floats at the end of float season.

Any type of flying that involves mountains, fair weather and no pressure to get somewhere.

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