Raise your hand if you like...

[Go Juice]

...If you like working in the north!!!! You can add some cool stories if you want!!

[North Shore]

Aye! Lots of stories - most of them ending with "Holy F@AK, I'm never doing that again!"

[624]

The north was a good place to be. I enjoyed my 15 plus yrs. there....

[CGZMT]

Whats considered the north? Does north of 56 Count? Or is this one of those instances that if you have to ask if your in the north means you really are not in the north?

[Lost Lake]

In Ontario, anything north of Lake Huron shores is north. In Nunavut, anything north of the arctic circle is north.

[Bushav8er]

For Torontonians Barrie is North.

[FICU]

1999... -42 with a 15 kt wind in Repulse Bay and having to put on engine tents at 3 am and then the #1 engine wouldn't start so had to pull cowls and swap glow plugs on a PT6-20... by the time we had got it running the plane was frozen including the outflow valve and we flew unpressurized in our parkas and Sorels back to stankin Rankin. Love the north!

[swordfish]

1999... -42 with a 15 kt wind in Repulse Bay and having to put on engine tents at 3 am and then the #1 engine wouldn't start so had to pull cowls and swap glow plugs on a PT6-20... by the time we had got it running the plane was frozen including the outflow valve and we flew unpressurized in our parkas and Sorels back to stankin Rankin. Love the north!

That's definitely an ooowwie!

I did a very similar thing in Coppermine, on a -99 many years ago, but it was only 35 and the wind was a gentle 10 kt. I still froze my tits off and the electric heater didn't work very well...cutting in & out on the way to Yellowknife. The most fun you can have in the arctic is changing glow-plugs. Particularly when you have only 2 good ones available, and they're both in the left engine...

Although we did get blown in, at Repulse for 2 days, couldn't open the door of the transient center, and I had to go out the window and slide down the snow drift and dig out the doorway. It opened OUTWARDS!!

[swordfish]

In those days (DC-3) I was able to fit out the tiny window they had...

[StudentPilot]

It wasn't all good times, and plenty of it was bone numbing, but overall I enjoyed my time in the North. Hopefully in a couple years I'll be able to head back North and it will be how I remember it (or better)...I hope.

[Level@3000]

I still fly in the north[ N Sask ] I recall doing a fuel haul 3 or 4 winters back and first flight of the day temp was -51, turned on avionics master and the GPS went BANG. Good thing I pretty much had a trail by then to the destination and back. And a cojo with maps.

[KAG]

Holman Island, -40 with a 40 KT wind, thank god for snow goose parkas!!!
Seriously, the highlights of my career mostly involve the north, and those are the stories shared while crusing along in RVSM. If it weren't for the great guy's/gals I worked with, my time there would have been work, not summer/winter camp. Sure it had it's ups and downs, but I'm glad I got to see the remots places in this country, those that have never been are truely missing out.

[Brize]

I wouldn't say I've been missing it, Bob.


Stuffing northern samsonite occasionally carrying a dead goose into an already full cargo pod at -15 in September I don't miss but I will say I'm glad got to experience it. A lot of character gets built in the North and it cannot be traded for anything.

[OceansEdge]

I enjoyed my time up north; but 6 years of low light, bitter cold winters, that was enough for me... I think it was the lack of light that got to me more than the cold did.



Repulse Bay, January 2004, -40°C, FO took the photo of me in the North Circle arch - camera froze between the front door of the 'terminal' and where he took the photo 10-20 ft away.

Still I do miss it at times, the Northern Lights, the long day summers (but not the BUGS!), miss working for a great company and really good people

[Rowdy]

Many Many good times in the north..

[Bede]

Loved the north.

January 2001 in Holman. Dug drums out of a snow bank, but the snow was too deep to roll them. I had to flip them end over end. Good times.

[all_ramped_up]

had a blast up north!


nothing like feeling the snot freeze inside your nose. lol

[sakism]

[North Shore]

^ That's a great marketing tool! Food companies should make their tin cans transparent, so that if the label falls off, you can still see what the food is inside!