Define a bush pilot?

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Define a bush pilot?

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What makes a bush pilot a bush pilot? Is it flying with a big fat cigar in your teeth hell bent for leather ramming through thunderstorms with a high rate of speed and little consideration for passenger comfort? Is it flying without maps/gps/navaids hoping lake to lake on a 206 with the edo floats sunk up to the last line of rivets? Is it gravel flying strip to strip in the northern prairie provinces, dodging wildlife and native life, living fast and drinking even faster? Flying jo's all over saskatchewan for little pay or respect?

What do u think is the definition of a bush pilot?

Or are you a bush pilot, because you live in a godforsaken hole, and you dont instruct?


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Post by East Coast »

To be a true bush pilot you must:

1) Shoot a Moose

2) F_ck a Squ_w

3) and fly a Norseman.

The first two should be easy!
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OOops. =( I had the it slightly reversed.

But the Moose sure enjoyed it..
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Post by Doc »

No problem with the moose....but I did have to buy her a lot of drinks!!!
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Don't forget living in a hole.
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Post by Cat Driver »

To be a true Bush Pilot you must be able to take two inches of co.k out of four inches of clothing with your wolf skin mitts on and have a piss at fifty below zero.

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Post by Doc »

Cat...that's not the problem...it's when the bloody thing hits the cold air and shrinks to 3/4 inches....that's the problem...cuz ya gotta not wet anything but the snow!!!
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J.P.WISER wrote:Don't forget living in a hole.
That's what he said! 2) F_ck a Squ_w... :lol:
Doc wrote:Cat...that's not the problem...it's when the bloody thing hits the cold air and shrinks to 3/4 inches....that's the problem...cuz ya gotta not wet anything but the snow!!!
:lol: :lol: :lol: :mrgreen:
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Jeez, Cat, only two inches - you poor guy! :P
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It is not the fact that it shrinks so bad it is the fact that you have to back up as you do it so you dont get it stuck to your own yellow ice sculpture.
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Whats the definition of a bush pilot !

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Too cheap to buy his own de-ice.....has to borrow it from Jazz overspray !!!
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I was thinking of this the other day, if your weather report from where you're going sounds like this:

"OK, now Millie can the see the island"

You may be a bush pilot
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-wear your leatherman on your belt
-hat pulled down tight
-smell like an old fuel drum by the end of any day
-know what a snot box actually is
-outstanding personality
-an uncanny nack for dealing with inadequate operators without burning the bridge your standing on
-be able to repair almost anything with the leatherman on your belt
-know that the pickle lake inn is not a hot spot and the green buoys bobbing out on pickle lake are not buoys at all
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there ya go

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1. Single and looking (at anything in a skirt)
2. Drinks like he's expecting the Apocalypse tomorrow
3. Drives a piece of shit, but owns a nice guitar.
4. Has a vocabulary that would make Chris Rock blush.
5. Swears every moose season that he's gonna go MIFR next year and by
March would give his left nut to do a splash-n-go in a Beaver.
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Post by canoe »

Very nice, and very true Floatman
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Post by water wings »

when a dead moose takes a shit and a piss in your plane because the locals didn't remove the innards (true) then you pick dried up moose meat out of your ear 4 hours later...
yummy.
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