What makes a bush pilot a bush pilot? Is it flying with a big fat cigar in your teeth hell bent for leather ramming through thunderstorms with a high rate of speed and little consideration for passenger comfort? Is it flying without maps/gps/navaids hoping lake to lake on a 206 with the edo floats sunk up to the last line of rivets? Is it gravel flying strip to strip in the northern prairie provinces, dodging wildlife and native life, living fast and drinking even faster? Flying jo's all over saskatchewan for little pay or respect?

What do u think is the definition of a bush pilot?

Or are you a bush pilot, because you live in a godforsaken hole, and you dont instruct?


Cheers


Apache64

To be a true bush pilot you must:

1) Shoot a Moose

2) F_ck a Squ_w

3) and fly a Norseman.

The first two should be easy!

OOops. =( I had the it slightly reversed.

But the Moose sure enjoyed it..

No problem with the moose....but I did have to buy her a lot of drinks!!!

Don't forget living in a hole.

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

Cat...that's not the problem...it's when the bloody thing hits the cold air and shrinks to 3/4 inches....that's the problem...cuz ya gotta not wet anything but the snow!!!

J.P.WISER wrote:Don't forget living in a hole.

That's what he said! 2) F_ck a Squ_w...

Doc wrote:Cat...that's not the problem...it's when the bloody thing hits the cold air and shrinks to 3/4 inches....that's the problem...cuz ya gotta not wet anything but the snow!!!

Jeez, Cat, only two inches - you poor guy!

It is not the fact that it shrinks so bad it is the fact that you have to back up as you do it so you dont get it stuck to your own yellow ice sculpture.

Too cheap to buy his own de-ice.....has to borrow it from Jazz overspray !!!

I was thinking of this the other day, if your weather report from where you're going sounds like this:

"OK, now Millie can the see the island"

You may be a bush pilot

-wear your leatherman on your belt
-hat pulled down tight
-smell like an old fuel drum by the end of any day
-know what a snot box actually is
-outstanding personality
-an uncanny nack for dealing with inadequate operators without burning the bridge your standing on
-be able to repair almost anything with the leatherman on your belt
-know that the pickle lake inn is not a hot spot and the green buoys bobbing out on pickle lake are not buoys at all

Lemon pleadge is not only good for windows; it will double for a deodorant in a pinch...

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There.

T01

Boooooo!!!!!!!!!!!

there ya go

1. Single and looking (at anything in a skirt)
2. Drinks like he's expecting the Apocalypse tomorrow
3. Drives a piece of shit, but owns a nice guitar.
4. Has a vocabulary that would make Chris Rock blush.
5. Swears every moose season that he's gonna go MIFR next year and by
March would give his left nut to do a splash-n-go in a Beaver.

Very nice, and very true Floatman

when a dead moose takes a shit and a piss in your plane because the locals didn't remove the innards (true) then you pick dried up moose meat out of your ear 4 hours later...
yummy.

you get excited when the expirey date on dairy products is more that a week away.

What is a bush pilot or what makes a bush pilot? I consider myself a bush pilot and could never say that I would fit any other type of commercial pilot. Virtually all of my flying was and is done in unsettled areas (besides the airport I am taking off from and land) and if you would send me to Calgary International I would probably sweat my pants off and yell for help pretty quick. My entire approach to flying is completely different from the pilots who only know runways, perhaps just paved runways at that. Most of my navigating is either visual or with the help of a GPS100 and/or VOR. I do have a commercial license, so I am educated and trained to do what everybody else is doing. But the big difference is the almost unrestricted freedom of flight and the fact that I am at no time required to look like a zoo keeper, clean shaved and in a suit. Bush pilots fly at lower altitudes and I think that our navigating is a heck of a lot better because it is also less technnically sophisticated than that of the big Jets with all their dual nav-coms, ground approximity warning devices and air conditions. I am now only used to my own plane, a C180. It is perhaps the most rugged and ideal of all personal planes built with rough runways and dirty grass strips in mind. Would I trade with an airline pilot? Not a chance, although his pay cheque must be nice. But when I went to flight school many years ago, this was not about money, suits, or hotel rooms with a personal (stewardess) room service. It still is all about personal freedom and for that I know others envy me. So who would want to trade for an airbus? They can't look out for wolves and moose ...

^well said.

....johnwa...snap out of it...
personal "stewardess" room service???WTF?????!!!!!!!

please. Youv'e been watching too much '80s TV
or bad porn. (yes there is such a thing as bad porn, boys)

OK, perhaps I have to snap a bit. I did work for a major airline in the north and back then the stories got real fantastic at times. But I never mentioned porn... Anyways, niothing against airline pilots, but this was a question of comparison between the two different types of heavy-equipment-operators. Take my apologies please.