Bush Pilots

Sault_Ace · Post by **Sault_Ace** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 11:01 pm

Are there any true bush pilots still flying, and who are they? I mean true bush guys, not guys who just fly in the north!

MRO · Post by **MRO** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 11:44 pm

Define bush pilot.

co-joe · Post by **co-joe** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 11:57 pm

You mean a pilot who carries his own repair tools, lands to hand whittle a propeller out of a log, kills skins and cooks his lunch en route, smokes a pipe while flying, and lands anywhere. I doubt it, but maybe up in AK somewhere. Some stuff I've seen in the arctic comes close, but not old school true grit bush pilot stuff.

Blakey · Post by **Blakey** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 3:39 am

Call Sudbury Aviation in Azilda and ask the chief pilot how long he's been flying there! He may not still be "whittling" props in the bush but he was there in the day.

twotter · Post by **twotter** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 7:37 am

Yup, I'm a "Bush Pilot"... Even got a toolbox.. what would you like to know..???

bugspray · Post by **bugspray** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 8:24 am

Here's a true bush pilot.....

Dog · Post by **Dog** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 9:21 am

Last weak eye cudnt eavan spel brush pile-it... now I are wun

http://www.avcanada.ca/albums/displayim ... fullsize=1

. ._ · Post by **. ._** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 12:18 pm

FYI, Blakey, Mel retired this season.

-istp

just curious · Post by **just curious** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 2:38 pm

You mean a pilot who carries his own repair tools, lands to hand whittle a propeller out of a log, kills skins and cooks his lunch en route, smokes a pipe while flying, and lands anywhere. I doubt it, but maybe up in AK somewhere. Some stuff I've seen in the arctic comes close, but not old school true grit bush pilot stuff.

I quit smoking, but, beyond that... yeah, we're still around.

co-joe · Post by **co-joe** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 5:22 pm

No way you're an actual bush pilot JC. For me to believe that you'd have to have gotten married in a bush plane.

Mr. North · Post by **Mr. North** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 7:35 pm

Come into the Lakeview in YRL and ask if there are any "real bush pilots" around. haha

just curious · Post by **just curious** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 12:09 pm

No way you're an actual bush pilot JC. For me to believe that you'd have to have gotten married in a bush plane.

A) I did, in the mighty otter outside the Calgary Museum.
B) it was in Red Lake, and we had the reception in between flights at the Lakeview Restaurant

donnybrook · Post by **donnybrook** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 4:41 pm

helicopter pilots...

just curious · Post by **just curious** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 11:36 pm

Yeah, okay. we're here, whaddya want?