whistler air?

pistonpilot · Post by **pistonpilot** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 10:44 am

Any one know anything about whistler air? Thanks.

altiplano · Post by **altiplano** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:09 pm

Don't they run a beaver into emerald lake in the summer or something? Might even be a seasonal sched out of Vancouver?

ScudRunner · Post by **ScudRunner** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:31 pm

http://www.whistlerair.ca/

Here ya go read all about them

twotter · Post by **twotter** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 3:00 am

That would be Green Lake, and they do mostly tours out of there in the summer. They have a Beaver, a Turbo Otter, and right now they have an ex Slate Falls Caravan in a YVR hangar that they may be buying. I hear they may run it on wheels next summer. Should be a good machine for doing the glacier tours.

altiplano · Post by **altiplano** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 10:06 am

twotter wrote:I hear they may run it on wheels next summer.

Where will they operate it out of? Squamish? Pemberton? YVR? A gravel strip somewhere near Whistler?

What's the recent word on the Whistler Airport plan?

snoopy · Post by **snoopy** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 11:05 am

Would that Caravan be Slate Falls Airways', or Slate Falls Band's (aka Bamaji Air)?

zero · Post by **zero** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:11 pm

If it's orange it'll be Slate Falls, blue and white was Bamaji's.

twotter · Post by **twotter** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 1:43 am

It's SLA and I'm not sure where they will operate from. To me though, the logical place would be Pemberton.

North Shore · Post by **North Shore** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 8:43 am

What's the recent word on the Whistler Airport plan?

I don't think that there's room in the valley for a decent length gravel strip, let alone 5k ft of tarmac for all of the bizjets that they'd want to attract. Better to build a decent GPS approach into Pemberton, and bus it - or YVR.

snoopy · Post by **snoopy** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 9:03 am

So does anyone know why SFA would be getting rid of the Caravan? That is rather surprising to hear.

twotter · Post by **twotter** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:43 am

snoopy wrote:So does anyone know why SFA would be getting rid of the Caravan? That is rather surprising to hear.

Because it's a Caravan!!!

PA-18 · Post by **PA-18** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:48 pm

the caravan is being replaced by another otter that was recently purchased and is being converted

Krashman · Post by **Krashman** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:30 am

Better to build a decent GPS approach into Pemberton, and bus it - or YVR.

didn't pemberton once have an MLS approach...

even the valley, depending on which side you come from is pretty tight... but I'd rather fly into pemberton than bus up from YVR

twotter · Post by **twotter** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 11:49 pm

Krashman wrote:
Better to build a decent GPS approach into Pemberton, and bus it - or YVR.

didn't pemberton once have an MLS approach...

even the valley, depending on which side you come from is pretty tight... but I'd rather fly into pemberton than bus up from YVR

The MLS was tried and TC used our -7's when I was at AirBC to test it but it just didn't work.

I did hear today though that the caravan will actually be operated on floats in the summer. Airplane looks pretty good, getting a hot section right now.