What was the most fun job you had flying
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What was the most fun job you had flying
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!
Re: What was the most fun job you had flying
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 !!
floatplane flying !!
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Re: What was the most fun job you had flying
Consistently the most fun is Formation flying, although fire bombing had it's moments
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Re: What was the most fun job you had flying
Probably the one I have now. Dash 8 at Jazz...
1. I'm not on call
2. I don't fly medevacs anymore
1. I'm not on call
2. I don't fly medevacs anymore
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Re: What was the most fun job you had flying
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.
Airlines are boring places to ride out the sunset of your career.
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Re: What was the most fun job you had flying
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…
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…
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Re: What was the most fun job you had flying
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.
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Re: What was the most fun job you had flying
Can you collect unemployment if you sing up to a "contract / seasonal" job?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.
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Re: What was the most fun job you had flying
Aerial application.
The hardest thing about flying is knowing when to say no
After over a half a century of flying no one ever died because of my decision not to fly.
After over a half a century of flying no one ever died because of my decision not to fly.
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Re: What was the most fun job you had flying
"Cat: aerial application"
Yes, I would have enjoyed that. Did a very little bit of herbiciding with a Jet Ranger.
Yes, I would have enjoyed that. Did a very little bit of herbiciding with a Jet Ranger.
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Re: What was the most fun job you had flying
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.HansDietrich wrote:Can you collect unemployment if you sing up to a "contract / seasonal" job?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.
Of course there are exceptions, Harbour Air, winter ski flying, etc. They are the exception though.
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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.
Don't ask why I'm not there anymore because I don't know either.
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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.
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Re: What was the most fun job you had flying
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."
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."
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Peeling around VFR low level BC/West coast in a fast turboprop...
The job itself was meh, but the good flying days were superb.
The job itself was meh, but the good flying days were superb.
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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!
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Re: What was the most fun job you had flying
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.
For me it was flying in the air show business.
The hardest thing about flying is knowing when to say no
After over a half a century of flying no one ever died because of my decision not to fly.
After over a half a century of flying no one ever died because of my decision not to fly.
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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
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
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Re: What was the most fun job you had flying
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.
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Instructing on floats at the end of float season.
Any type of flying that involves mountains, fair weather and no pressure to get somewhere.
Any type of flying that involves mountains, fair weather and no pressure to get somewhere.
As an AvCanada discussion grows longer:
-the probability of 'entitlement' being mentioned, approaches 1
-one will be accused of using bad airmanship
-the probability of 'entitlement' being mentioned, approaches 1
-one will be accused of using bad airmanship