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by DEL
Tue Jan 30, 2024 10:49 pm
Forum: Bush Flying & Specialty Air Service
Topic: MAG Aerospace
Replies: 22
Views: 12529

Re: MAG Aerospace $2,500 signing bonus for the 2024 season

Just posted today: $2,500 bonus for the 2024 season. Read about it below. I flew for Mag for a number of years and enjoyed flying the Skymaster. It was easy summers and stress-less flying as it was only VFR flying. Each year was a different flying adventure as it all depends on the fire season. One ...
by DEL
Mon Jan 27, 2020 6:53 pm
Forum: Bush Flying & Specialty Air Service
Topic: MAG Aerospace
Replies: 22
Views: 12529

Re: MAG Aerospace

Great flying job. Going back for my fourth year. Descent pay with good equipment C-337, 25 days on, 5 days off, housing included, all VFR flying. A few are coming back and the one's who moved on look back on this flying as a great summer. Hours of flying depends on the condition for that summer as I...
by DEL
Mon Nov 11, 2013 5:42 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Northwestern Ontario plane crash kills 5
Replies: 1
Views: 1165

Northwestern Ontario plane crash kills 5

Northwestern Ontario plane crash kills 5 Two survivors reported after plane goes down in community near Manitoba border. By: The Canadian Press, Published on Sun Nov 10 2013 RED LAKE, ONT.—Ontario Provincial Police are confirming five people have died in a plane crash in northwestern Ontario near th...
by DEL
Mon Oct 28, 2013 6:28 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Aviation website for Cdn pilots to figure distances
Replies: 21
Views: 2503

Re: Aviation website for Cdn pilots to figure distances

Thanks for the various web sites. I have tried all of them and some are easier to use than others. I was doing some reading as to what a cross country is in Canada as I had thought it was 25 NM but there is nothing I can find as to what is a cross country distance in Canada. In the US a cross countr...
by DEL
Mon Oct 28, 2013 1:24 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Aviation website for Cdn pilots to figure distances
Replies: 21
Views: 2503

Aviation website for Cdn pilots to figure distances

I am looking for a Canadian aviation website like Airnav.com so I can figure out my point to point for cross country distances. I have not flown in Canada for a number of years and I am getting ready to get my US FAA ATP-R certificate and need to prove to the examiner that the cross countries are fi...
by DEL
Sat May 04, 2013 9:00 am
Forum: Employment Forum
Topic: C 182 bush pilot Manitoba on Wheels
Replies: 2
Views: 2058

Re: C 182 bush pilot Manitoba on Wheels

Has the position been filled? Sent e-mail & I called a few time's, left a message but never heard back. 1,600+TT
by DEL
Sun Nov 25, 2012 11:42 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: NPR: U.S. Airlines And A Shortage Of Pilots
Replies: 3
Views: 1166

Re: Shortage Of Pilots

It is amazing how often I have heard that there is a shortage of pilots. I have been hearing that since the mid 1980's. If this was true I should have been in the airlines years ago. As for the US airlines after June 2013 to fly with them you will need to have your ATP. This is due to the plane cras...
by DEL
Sun Feb 19, 2012 1:16 pm
Forum: Bush Flying & Specialty Air Service
Topic: Am I employable to fly as a bush pilot this year??
Replies: 11
Views: 2397

Re: Am I employable to fly as a bush pilot this year??

Trey, The Otter and Beaver time is from being PIC in it as I got it years ago when you could get time in these airplanes. The good old days when having less than fifty hours of float time, got you into a Beaver or an Otter. At the time I flew the Beaver I had only a fresh seaplane rating, 5 hours an...
by DEL
Sat Feb 18, 2012 8:02 pm
Forum: Bush Flying & Specialty Air Service
Topic: Am I employable to fly as a bush pilot this year??
Replies: 11
Views: 2397

Am I employable to fly as a bush pilot this year??

Am I employable to fly as a bush pilot this year?? Total time 1473 hours, floats 128 hours (Otter, Beaver, C-206, C-172), 67 hours multi. CFI/CFII with 452 hours dual given. Worked years at two different bush operations as a pilot/dockhand. Looking to fly, not do the dockhand position again. With th...
by DEL
Wed Nov 16, 2011 2:18 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: whopping 21% of Cdn. fliers depart out of U.S airports.
Replies: 40
Views: 3688

Re: whopping 21% of Cdn. fliers depart out of U.S airports.

I have been flying in and out of Buffalo for over twenty years now. I have looked at using Toronto but the taxes, fee's etc are way too much. The using of American airports will continue till we wake up but I don't see that ever happening. My 2 cents.
by DEL
Wed Nov 16, 2011 2:05 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Seasonal Pilots - Do you get Overtime & Benefits?
Replies: 39
Views: 3701

Re: Seasonal Pilots - Do you get Overtime & Benefits?

I believe the that overtime issue is one of those little dirty secrets of flying in the bush. I worked for two operations over the years and took one to the labour board for overtime. I was able to get the money owed to me. The only reason was that the company didn't treat the workers good, so two o...
by DEL
Sat Oct 22, 2011 6:29 pm
Forum: AvCanada's Wall
Topic: Ray Romain LaBine RCAF WWII Veteran, Spitfire Pilot.
Replies: 0
Views: 15638

Ray Romain LaBine RCAF WWII Veteran, Spitfire Pilot.

Ray Romain LaBine RCAF WWII Veteran, Spitfire Pilot. Chemist at INCO, flight instructor at Cambrian College and pilot at Sudbury Aviation. Suddenly on Friday October 7, 2011 at Allendale Long Term Care, Milton, Ontario in his 91st year. Beloved husband of Geraldine and father of Joan McNaughton and ...
by DEL
Sun Sep 18, 2011 6:29 pm
Forum: AvCanada's Wall
Topic: George Hewitt Ex-Air Canada pilot, his wife killed in Reno
Replies: 0
Views: 16622

George Hewitt Ex-Air Canada pilot, his wife killed in Reno

George Hewitt Ex-Air Canada pilot, his wife killed in Reno air show crash September 18, 2011 RENO, NEV. — A former Air Canada pilot and his wife were among nine people killed in Nevada after a 1940s-era plane crashed during an air show. George Hewitt, 60, and his wife Wendy, 57, were sitting with a ...
by DEL
Thu Jun 09, 2011 7:16 am
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: Pilot killed in float plane crash near Lindsay
Replies: 2
Views: 2070

Pilot killed in float plane crash near Lindsay

Pilot killed in float plane crash near Lindsay June 09, 2011 Aleysha Haniff The Ontario Provincial Police in Kawartha Lakes is investigating the death of a pilot north of Lindsay. Police were called to West Bay, on Balsam Lake, at about 2:40 p.m. Wednesday. A single-engine float plane was found upsi...
by DEL
Tue Feb 08, 2011 7:43 am
Forum: Bush Flying & Specialty Air Service
Topic: 2011 Float Season
Replies: 41
Views: 6346

Re: 2011 Float Season

glorifieddriver: Suggest you go back to school and become a plumber or electrician. A lot better pay in the long run and you can go work any place. Then buy yourself a plane. Other option is to go into the military and fly there. Do twenty years and retire with a pension. This is the one I should ha...
by DEL
Tue Aug 10, 2010 9:24 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: This looks like a great little plane. FAIL
Replies: 4
Views: 1741

Re: This looks like a great little plane. FAIL

So where is this FAIL plane selling?? This is a great selling point. Everyone should FAIL once in there life and this is a way to show it. I just had to say that.
by DEL
Tue Jun 22, 2010 5:44 am
Forum: Bush Flying & Specialty Air Service
Topic: So what are my chances of getting into the bush this year??
Replies: 5
Views: 1647

Update: getting into the bush this year??

After 100+ resumes, countless phone calls, nothing came of my quest of getting back into the bush. Talked to a number of office people but the chief pilots never bothered to call back at all or were in the office when I called back. Only received four replies by e-mail telling the position was now f...
by DEL
Sat Apr 17, 2010 7:11 pm
Forum: Bush Flying & Specialty Air Service
Topic: red lake?
Replies: 10
Views: 2307

Re: red lake?

Birch Lake Lodge has its Norseman IV up for sale also.
by DEL
Sun Apr 11, 2010 8:49 pm
Forum: Bush Flying & Specialty Air Service
Topic: So what are my chances of getting into the bush this year??
Replies: 5
Views: 1647

So what are my chances of getting into the bush this year??

I just sent out a number of resumes tonight April 11, to a number of bush operators. The flight school I'm working at in the US is really slow. I just finished off my only student I have had since January, a IFR student. No other students on the horizon. Daytona Beach, FL is very quiet for students ...
by DEL
Fri Jul 03, 2009 7:35 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Air Georgian Pilots are going on strike!
Replies: 33
Views: 5370

Re: Air Georgian Pilots are going on strike!

So did they go out on strike?? What is happening???

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