NWO Ontario Savant Lake
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NWO Ontario Savant Lake
Anyone left flying here for external load work? Don't see any heavy lifters left in the area. Who replaced West Caribou and Lattos?
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Rusty Myers still has a base on sturgeon lake don't they?
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What lake/area do you need to get into? Around Savant or south?
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Boat caches on the Flindt River system north of Allen Water and desire to go west of highway around Hooker Lake. Staunton lake bases, were 2 of them seem to be caput! What happend no business? I used them plenty.
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WCA closed up last year and Lattos being gone is news to me (but it should have happened years ago). I have heard that someone was going to try and use the WCA Staunton base for a new venture but never heard anything beyond that and it wasn't from a necessarily reliable source. Rusty Myers on sturgeon or slate falls in YXL or North Star in ypl (do they still have turbine otters?) may be your choices.
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Lattos still there with only a 180. Not sure who or what they have to move alot of people. Will check with Rusty.
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Nope, they crashed the otter and sold the van. Slate Falls has 2 otters in YXL.cdnpilot77 wrote:WCA closed up last year and Lattos being gone is news to me (but it should have happened years ago). I have heard that someone was going to try and use the WCA Staunton base for a new venture but never heard anything beyond that and it wasn't from a necessarily reliable source. Rusty Myers on sturgeon or slate falls in YXL or North Star in ypl (do they still have turbine otters?) may be your choices.
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What? Somebody thumped in CQA? Is she repairable? Lots of fun times on that machine. Woodgie/R2, are you out there?Nope, they crashed the otter and sold the van. Slate Falls has 2 otters in YXL.
Say, what's that mountain goat doing up here in the mist?
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I do remember seeing that Otter in the corner of the hangar at springer aerospace a few years back total write off, didn't know if they had another one in YPL. It was a gear down water landing if I remember correctly. The roof of the cockpit was caved in pretty bad, the pilots (I believe there was a swamper on board) were very luckyNorth Shore wrote:What? Somebody thumped in CQA? Is she repairable? Lots of fun times on that machine. Woodgie/R2, are you out there?Nope, they crashed the otter and sold the van. Slate Falls has 2 otters in YXL.
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There is no one around Savant that does external loads, Rusty doesn't do it. I think Slate Falls (if they will even do it with the otter) is your closest choice.
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We can certainly take external loads on the Turbo Otter!
Our STC permits us to carry up to 4 passengers provided a boat/canoe meets certain specs. Apart from that, it'd have to go without passengers and comply with all the other CARs nonsense... proving flight, etc.
Feel free to give us a call or drop me an email to discuss. I don't check avcanada often; replying on here probably won't get to me!
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Slate Falls Airways
Our STC permits us to carry up to 4 passengers provided a boat/canoe meets certain specs. Apart from that, it'd have to go without passengers and comply with all the other CARs nonsense... proving flight, etc.
Feel free to give us a call or drop me an email to discuss. I don't check avcanada often; replying on here probably won't get to me!
Thanks
Matt Cairns
Slate Falls Airways
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Someone landed her gear-down, on Obashi Lake, I think. Woodgie is on "face-book". I'm not sure if he still flies or not. What a drag, eh?North Shore wrote:What? Somebody thumped in CQA? Is she repairable? Lots of fun times on that machine. Woodgie/R2, are you out there?Nope, they crashed the otter and sold the van. Slate Falls has 2 otters in YXL.
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Crying shame...
A pic from better days.
A pic from better days.
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Re: NWO Ontario Savant Lake
Bamaji Air operates a C-185 in Staunton/Savant Lakes. It is available for charter work in the area. We also have a full rack STC'ed Beaver that is available to fly boats, canoes and lumber with passengers.
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What happened to WCA? When I left the area in 2011 they were busier than hell and I thought they got their own DHC-3T with a Walter on the front?
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nearly 3mill in outstanding debt to creditors and the failure of ring of fire development (for the medium to long term ) see issues re Mackenzie pipeline approval for a reference and time line 37yrs did wca in
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Old, there were some internal issues as well where there was supposed to be more money in the bank than there was. I will leave it at that.
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Oldncold's response is pretty tame and PC. Let's go with that one. Yes 3 million in debt and the overall failure of the ROF. Nothing else, nothing.......