What Makes A Bush Pilot

PopnChipper · Post by **PopnChipper** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:34 pm

So, shitty weather Sunday in North Western Ontario. Sitting around, buzzed right out on coffee, cigarettes, etc. What makes a real bush pilot? Float drivers only? Only airplanes without auto-pilot, living in a place without a road? Pushing weather? Anybody else

Flybaby · Post by **Flybaby** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 3:46 pm

How about gravel strips, pop and chip hauls, passengers that may not know what proper hygiene is, little to no weather information and no radar.

Rudy · Post by **Rudy** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 4:38 pm

I saw these requirements posted on here before:

1. Kill a moose
2. F*ck a squaw
3. Fly a Norseman

Anyone got a Norseman I can borrow?

Doc · Post by **Doc** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 4:47 pm

Rudy....I think they changed it to 1. Kill a moose.
2. Fu*k a moose, but no change to number three. Political correctness, don't you know?

gapper · Post by **gapper** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 5:11 pm

Told to me about 20 years ago by WWII Lancaster captain/bush-pilot.....Son, your not a bushpilot til you've had the clap 3 times.

zero · Post by **zero** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 6:43 pm

Never hauled pop 'n chips, lots of beer and walleye though.

Never killed a moose but dragged a dead bear out of an outpost.

Haven't flown a Norseman and don't aspire to.

And haven't had the clap even once but own a clapper.

Glad I'm not a bush pilot.

PopnChipper · Post by **PopnChipper** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 6:52 pm

as the name should imply, i've got the popnchips down, havn't fucked the squaw yet, and i have yet to have a successful moose hunt, but not for a lack of trying. Clap 3 times sounds pretty damn rough though. No Norseman yet, maybe a beaver this summer.

Rudder Bug · Post by **Rudder Bug** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 6:57 pm

Flybabe I was gonna write almost the same thing!

Float flying is not necessarily bush flying. It's just another runway hue?

Rudder Bug · Post by **Rudder Bug** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 7:00 pm

I pretend to be a bush pilot but did only #2. Never killed a moose or fly a Norseman. I can't even beat an egg!

flynfiddle · Post by **flynfiddle** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 8:48 pm

I remembered this from another thread, it kinda sums it up ..

Cat Driver wrote: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.

Cat

youngflier · Post by **youngflier** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 8:59 pm

someone that doesn't believe in personal hi gene

ScudRunner · Post by **ScudRunner** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 9:36 pm

A Bush Pilot is able to Keep it on the Centre line

Rudder Bug · Post by **Rudder Bug** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 9:44 pm

Hello ..,

Is this at Krammer? Looks like it if you landed from the river...

PopnChipper · Post by **PopnChipper** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 10:16 pm

wow, that is an impressive pic.

xsbank · Post by **xsbank** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:30 pm

That's a cool photo! Its been abandoned there so long the trees have grown up around it!

What did you say? What? Can't hear a thing I've been driving the Islander.

Rudder Bug · Post by **Rudder Bug** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:26 am

What did you say Xsbank?

Can't hear a thing I've been driving Islanders.

Rudder Bug · Post by **Rudder Bug** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:01 pm

Cat Driver wrote:
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.

Cat

Tried that last week in a -40 blizzard in Baker L. Gees there wasn't that much left under all these zips

ScudRunner · Post by **ScudRunner** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:00 am

I was at Hart River Mine, Went in there once wont go back untill some hippy type geo's clear it out then its fine strip. Had not been used in a long time, did three pases before going in and the only reason for going in there was to recovery a plane that used it the previous day that rejected a take off tore the nose wheel off and fliped it on its back. Everyone was fine but thats not a strip to be used unless you dam well know you can handle it and then get an axe and start clearing.

WHAT I FLY AN ISLANDER

shimmydampner · Post by **shimmydampner** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:35 am

Rudder Bug wrote:Flybabe I was gonna write almost the same thing!

Float flying is not necessarily bush flying. It's just another runway hue?

How many runways have you landed on with 3 foot (or bigger) waves on them?

ScudRunner · Post by **ScudRunner** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:10 am

Well some of the places in the Yukon have three foot humps in them, covered in shale wich slices your tires. wich then you have to figure out how to change. Ill attach pictures later.

Rudder Bug · Post by **Rudder Bug** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 11:55 am

Well recently I had to dodge 3 ft hard snow drifts in Nanavut...as hard as water or concrete.

Lets agree that unprepared terrain, in liquid or solid state is bush operation

Oil Burner · Post by **Oil Burner** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:44 pm

Being able to hold your breath long enough to jam something sticky in the hole in the float you just made

That's definitely a good thing. Not making the hole is even better....

retired or retarded · Post by **retired or retarded** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 7:00 pm

wear sweat pants and forget to bath from what I remember

sky's the limit · Post by **sky's the limit** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 9:33 pm

. wrote:Well some of the places in the Yukon have three foot humps in them, covered in shale wich slices your tires. wich then you have to figure out how to change. Ill attach pictures later.

So been there.... LOL, all my pics are on slide though...

But I don't have that problem anymore...

STL

ettw · Post by **ettw** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:31 am

But I don't have that problem anymore...

Well, let's see....he's definitely flying, and MOST definitely IN the bush so I'd say he qualifies as a bush pilot!

Cheers,

ETTW

PS Bush Pilot video link http://youtube.com/watch?v=xhqKoqqS0XI

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