Has anyone flown any famous people !

PA31 Driver · Post by **PA31 Driver** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 9:29 pm

please do tell ?

LH · Post by LH » Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:47 pm

Pierre Trudeau, Linda Ronsteadt, Olivia Newton-John, Tom Jones and Bob Hope during a USO Tour. All separate occurences over almost 40 years.

flyinthebug · Post by **flyinthebug** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 7:30 am

Mine arent nearly of the calibre of LH`s but..Amy Sky, Blue Rodeo, Glen Clark (BC Premier), Phil Fontaine (is he famous?) and of course Jill Krop

Fly safe all, Cheers

LH.. You flew Bob Hope!? How cool would that have been to meet him! Was it a charter or sked? Chit chat or just a smile? Intresting nonetheless.

bezerker · Post by **bezerker** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 10:32 am

Our company flew Cuba Gooding jr. He used the lav. I think that the bosses daughter still has the treasure in a pickle jar on her mantle.

LH · Post by LH » Fri Mar 11, 2005 12:22 pm

flyinthebug ------Bob Hope I did when I was flying in 'Nam"........and they didn't ask me if I wanted to either

. Had a short chit-chat with him with a thank-you for a good flight, he cracked a joke and that was it. I was border-line rude because I had a hard time keeping my eyes off of Ann-Margaret. The rest were all cases of the personalities needing a large helicopter to get them from an airport to an area where they were going to perform. Olivia Newton-John was Calgary......a real woman and a real sweetheart; Linda Ronsteadt was Calgary also.......got a mouth like a Marine Corps Sgt/Major and treats those that work for her like shit; Tom Jones.......real great guy and the one that I had the most inter-action with because he was playing a snooker game in Oliver, BC with a close friend for a $10,000 bet and he'd already lost the first game to him at his home in England. Served me and the co-jo food, joked and talked with us while they were playing (3hrs) and you'd have never known he was a star of anything. Even got an invite to his home if and when I was ever in "jolly old"(I doubt if that will ever happen). Trudeau........NOT at all what one might think. I'll put him in the same class of guy as I think Clint Eastwood might be......... straight-up, no bullshit guy.....and very intelligent in "street-smart" way.

flyinthebug · Post by **flyinthebug** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 4:15 pm

amazing career you`ve had thusfar.. I`m sure I could listen to/read your stories for hours. Thanks for sharing LH. Fly safe, Cheers

PS.. I`d forego paying attention to Mr Hope as well... in favour of the BEAUTIFUL (still to this day) Ann Margeret!

Siddley Hawker · Post by **Siddley Hawker** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 5:25 pm

C. R. Smith, Robert Six. Charlie Blair and his wife.
Jack Austin, the entire Montreal Canadiens old-timers, Charles Dutoit.
Brian Mulroney and all the family, Peter C. Newman, Conrad Black.
Senator Fin MacDonald and Dalton Camp.

Flybabe · Post by **Flybabe** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 6:11 pm

Well, geez..

Jean Charest when he was running for PM - was in a fishing lodge on the Mackenzie with his son. "Hi, I'm Jean" he said - at least he was friendly

Capt. I was flying with put it best as we taxiied out on the river:

"Nothing but fear, common sense and the Reform Party holding us back now!"

Oh.. I *DID* see Gordon Lightfoot in Grand Junction, CO and Julia Roberts in Taos.. across the ramp!

water wings · Post by **water wings** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 9:35 pm

sheila copps balh blah blah
david suzuki (i'm sure he was thrilled with the amount of black crap coming out of the engines)
the grand chief from Muskrat Dam!!!

shitdisturber · Post by **shitdisturber** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 9:45 pm

water wings wrote: david suzuki (i'm sure he was thrilled with the amount of black crap coming out of the engines)

We won't even mention the hypocracy of Mr Tree Hugger himself going on charter flights instead of finding other, more environmentally friendly ways to travel.

water wings · Post by **water wings** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 10:07 am

Suzuki..it was in the arctic...all the dog teams were booked, i guess.

shitdisturber · Post by **shitdisturber** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 8:28 pm

water wings wrote:Suzuki..it was in the arctic...all the dog teams were booked, i guess.

Dog teams are bad, they poop and stuff and the Inu never scoop.

But I've also been told of him going to YYC on charter flights by people who've worked at the company that flew him; I'm reasonably certain he could have gotten to YYC with the rest of the unwashed masses.

Floats · Post by **Floats** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 12:46 pm

Cindy Crawford
Dan Akroyd
Eugene Levy
Martin Short
Bryan Adams
Eric Lindross
Steve Yzerman
Ed Norton

Juggs · Post by **Juggs** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:29 pm

I flew Danny Glover around down in Haiti, some high ranking goverment people from some governments in the Caribbean, (couldn't say who) most of what passes for the SWAT team in Haiti, and....I think that's all the famous people that I have flown. Which isn't a whole lot.

Danny Glover was a really nice guy, I don't think he had any toe nails, but nice man. Said thank you for the flight, very much down to earth. I wouldn't have known it was him unless he introduced himself.

Cheers,

--Juggs

Hey FTB, how's life?

Tango01 · Post by **Tango01** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:52 pm

Peter North
Rocco
Jill Kelly

yycflyguy · Post by **yycflyguy** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 12:52 pm

Alex Rodriguez
Scotty Pippen
Pat Riley
Shaquille O'Neil (imagine a 7' 320lb. man stuffed in a Lear 35!)
Gary Sheffield
Jessica Simpson
Toby Keith

PA31 Driver · Post by **PA31 Driver** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 1:16 pm

Tango01 wrote:Peter North
Rocco
Jill Kelly

I wish I was there.....................lol

sakism · Post by **sakism** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 10:25 am

Tie Domi
Ownership of Toronto Argonauts

hazatude · Post by **hazatude** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 3:57 pm

I still have Burt Reynolds poop in my lav cart from 4 years ago.

Seriously.

No shit.

just another pilot · Post by **just another pilot** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 11:58 pm

So, is Jessica Simpson really that stupid?

yycflyguy · Post by **yycflyguy** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 10:38 am

just another pilot wrote:So, is Jessica Simpson really that stupid?

Nope, she's stupider..... in life I have noticed an inverse relationship between intelligence and breast size. I want a dumb wife.

Fatass · Post by **Fatass** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 12:46 pm

Max Ward and Ryes Eaton. Pardon the spelling.

just another pilot · Post by **just another pilot** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 5:20 pm

What ever you do, DON'T fly musicians...

Louis · Post by **Louis** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 6:42 pm

just another pilot wrote:What ever you do, DON'T fly musicians...

Care to elaborate on the underlying story behind this statement?

Murph · Post by **Murph** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 10:16 pm

think of how many have died in plane crashes,