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Post by Brantford Beech Boy »

1000 hr - somewhere over the Pang Pass enroute YVM-YXP in a BE99
2000 hr - either in YTE or YLC in a DHC-6
3000 hr - missing YXP in a BE99
4000 hr - Freight run YVO-YFB in a B727
5000 hr - Between MBPV and MDPP in a DHC-6
Should pass 6000 hr next week.

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Want to be flying a beaver on floats somwhere over northern canada with twotter right seat and c180 under my belt as well
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Don't remember.
No doubt it was flying a sketchy floatplane loaded with Americans or Indians over some godforsaken part of Northern Ontario.
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In a 206 on my way back to YTH from Silsby Lake Lodge. It was such a long day that I didn't even notice it until I updated my logbook a few days later.
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Siddley Hawker wrote:Somewhere between Sept-Iles and Blanc Sablon in this airplane. Image
I was somewhere between Cochrane and Moosonee when I rolled over 2000 hours in GYP (2001). It had a few more moving parts than this photo.
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Somewhere near Slate Falls in Beaver FDS
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Cocky as all getout in a log hut in Summer Beaver - just prior to scaring the sh!t out of myself the next day. Anybody seen C185 C-GYBJ recently?
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I was somewhere between Cochrane and Moosonee when I rolled over 2000 hours in GYP (2001). It had a few more moving parts than this photo
Cochrane also bought CF-GBF, another one of our machines. Of the handful of Beavers I've flown, I liked GYP the best. I see someone's added a rudder trim tab instead of the one you adjusted with vice grips. I wonder if the flap indicator is still up by your left ear. :D
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Just last week.....flying a Beaver with a group of Americans into an outpost in NWO.
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Cochrane also bought CF-GBF, another one of our machines. Of the handful of Beavers I've flown, I liked GYP the best. I see someone's added a rudder trim tab instead of the one you adjusted with vice grips. I wonder if the flap indicator is still up by your left ear.
We parked GYP after the summer of '01 and I spent the next three years flying GBF. Between myself and old Jimmy Kershaw, we both liked GBF. By this time, it seemed that GYP had gotten tired but GBF was still pulling strong, although it flew ever just so cockeyed, IMO because of the "minor damage" in '83. It hit a log on takeoff and needed a wing replacement which they did in the bush and flew it out. And yep.. it was the vice grips to adjust the trim tab, no rudder trim makes for a strong right leg when flying all those new boats in and the old ones out...

They've done a nice job at Skywrench on GBF. Although I never got the pleasure of flying it in this state.

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don't remember but in 1000 more, in the cockpit of my Beneteau 343... and everyone will be thinking "hey, what ever happened to old "__".... :wink:
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Post by blewhead »

I was at FL210 enroute from CYCB Cambridge Bay to CYYH Taloyoak(I'd like to hear some guys try to say that in an Inuk accent) doing a medivac at midnight looking at the sun.
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Post by wallypilot »

This is kind of a fun exercise....brings up lots of great memories.

Me:

1000th hour: September 30, 2000.....300 feet over the cold north atlantic flying geophys survey in a C404....had to climb to clear the oil rigs around Sable Island. Ahh, the good ol' days.

2000th hour: 14 Oct 2002, C208B, 400 feet over the Saudi Arabian empty quarter again flying geophys survey.

3000th hour: 21 April 2005, PA31 on a mapping job in the Catskills in NY state.

4000th hour: July 2007, B350 Medevac somewhere between Bella Bella and KBFI.

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1000- looking for active pass in the .. van harbour to vic harbour dhc-6
2000- oddly enough flying with same capt dhc-6 again but in the "dives trying to find some smooth water landing outside the reef at Angaga
3000- capt dhc-6 overnighting at soneva fushi
4000- maldives ...still...trying to get out.

maldives references will make more sense to those who have been down there.

5000- ?? if all stays kosher, and no big "corrections" happen.....should still be somewhere at . 78 and FL410 reading people magazine.

ah..fun to pull the old book out.
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Wow, they sure did a fine job with GBF. We rebuilt it in the late 1950's from a crash when it was owned by some pulpwood company in Newfoundland. We had mothballed it, but when Fecteau took over our bush operation in 1971 or 1972, whenever it was, they reactivated it to replace one they'd lost in James Bay somewhere. Some guy sank GYP in Blanc Sablon in November 1965, so that's not the first time it's been rebuilt either.

I first met Jim Kershaw when he was flying the Otter for Fecteau, one of the last ones built. I forget if it was VQD or VQM. He also flew the Otter for Checo Engineering, the company that built the transmission lines from Churchill Falls. He used to park it at the flying club here and bend an elbow. Ask him why he painted the big number on the tail. :D
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I don't recall where I was at the specific moment that I hit the 1,000 hr. mark. That was 16 years ago. Back then, I was still buzzing around in small piston engine singles and twins with students.

Today, nothing's changed. I'm still buzzing. Just higher and faster!! :shock:
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Post by Cool Rythms! »

By the way, cool thread Otter Envy. When it drags on four of five pages like this, you know it's catching everyones attention.

It's always nice to think back to where you were when you hit that milestone in your career.

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100 AGL, doing farm pictures in Manitoulin Island! :shock:
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1000 - I knew i was hot shit

was humbled a 100 hours later, and every 1000 or so since.

I think I have around 8000 now, and still learning every day. Not so hot shit anymore, but far wiser.
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Post by YACdirect »

1000 hours over Gunt Lake, in C-GPCR, on my way to Cat Lake.
2000 hours over Otatakan Lake, in C-GGRW, on my way to Cat Lake.
3000 hours just north of Sioux Lookout, in C-GHEG, comin back from Cat Lake.
Im sure 4000 will be somewhere on that route too.

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