World's Shortest Scheduled Flight
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Re: World's Shortest Scheduled Flight
Ok, hands up...how many people went straight to google Earth/Maps to see how ridiculously short that is?
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I would personnaly prefer to walk or swim, in order to avoid the airport security delays related even to a 53 second flight!cdnpilot77 wrote:Ok, hands up...how many people went straight to google Earth/Maps to see how ridiculously short that is?
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Re: World's Shortest Scheduled Flight
About as far as one wants to go in an Islander -- -- Fort Albany to Kash is a close second
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Re: World's Shortest Scheduled Flight
Ive always thought the route from Montmagny to l'isle au grues QC is the shortest scheduled flight. I am sure the record time is pretty close to a minute too.
Maybe Gilles could gives us numbers. I cant remember how fast I was doing it.
Maybe Gilles could gives us numbers. I cant remember how fast I was doing it.
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Re: World's Shortest Scheduled Flight
Good for him. And he probably retires with not quite enough hours in his logbook to qualify for the TT requirements for the ATPL.
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Re: World's Shortest Scheduled Flight
The Montmagny to L'isle-aux-grues leg is 4,3 sm so we could log 0.15 for every hop. Average turnaround was 15 minutes.
A trip to Quebec City was 18 boring minutes one way. I hated those!
We apparently had the shortest sched in the world by then.
Gilles
A trip to Quebec City was 18 boring minutes one way. I hated those!
We apparently had the shortest sched in the world by then.
Gilles
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Nice, I use to think it was Fort-Albany to Kasachewan, but that's more like 5 NM trip across the river.
Cheers,
Cheers,
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Re: World's Shortest Scheduled Flight
13,000 legs at 2 mins a pop. 24 years later he's logged an astounding 433 hours. Nice!
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And I bet a real school bus driver was getting paid better also...Rudder Bug wrote:The Montmagny to L'isle-aux-grues leg is 4,3 sm so we could log 0.15 for every hop. Average turnaround was 15 minutes.
A trip to Quebec City was 18 boring minutes one way. I hated those!
We apparently had the shortest sched in the world by then.
Gilles
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Actually, that Islander was the school bus on Friday nights and Monday mornings. I was probably earning a tidy bit more than the local "ground" school bus driver. It was decent, good people to work with, etc.
I would do it again if I was still around.
Gilles
I would do it again if I was still around.
Gilles
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Re: World's Shortest Scheduled Flight
Every now and then, the typical young guy walked in with a resume, asking about how much time he could do in a year.
My answer was: You'll do millions of minutes but not too many hours. BUT...there was and still is the survey contracts up in the Arctic, oh wait a minute, the whale patrols, well yes, when I think back, lots of 12 hour days, max duty with the Islander range at 17" MP on "Survey Mode".
I wasn't chasing log book time; I had about 8k when I got that job. It was another gray hair type of job, with lots of fun.
Man these Islanders, I mean the people, not the plane, are amazing, and the plane is too!
Any question?
Gilles
My answer was: You'll do millions of minutes but not too many hours. BUT...there was and still is the survey contracts up in the Arctic, oh wait a minute, the whale patrols, well yes, when I think back, lots of 12 hour days, max duty with the Islander range at 17" MP on "Survey Mode".
I wasn't chasing log book time; I had about 8k when I got that job. It was another gray hair type of job, with lots of fun.
Man these Islanders, I mean the people, not the plane, are amazing, and the plane is too!
Any question?
Gilles
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Re: World's Shortest Scheduled Flight
Yup .. but times 10. Just like you old fart!. wrote:So he's got 1300 hours ?
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Re: World's Shortest Scheduled Flight
We used to sched run the Otter from Havre St. Pierre to Blanc Sablon, 320 sm, 12 stops. Longest was 56 miles from Romaine to Harrington, shortest 7 sm from Old Fort to St. Paul's River.
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Re: World's Shortest Scheduled Flight
So you must know my friend Bobat?Siddley Hawker wrote:We used to sched run the Otter from Havre St. Pierre to Blanc Sablon, 320 sm, 12 stops. Longest was 56 miles from Romaine to Harrington, shortest 7 sm from Old Fort to St. Paul's River.
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I've met him a few times, he was after my time on the coast. His exploits are stuff of legend though.
Re: World's Shortest Scheduled Flight
Why not just use a ferry to connect these islands, would anyone know?