Missing the Bush

[bush pilot]

Just wondering who else has left the float side of the bush and misses the hell out if it. I do fly up and around the bush but do all my landings on a strip now, but I fly over the lakes and the rivers and wonder if I will ever do it again.

[dash2/3]

trade ya, one cloud.

cheers

[bush pilot]

As long as the money comes with it!

[Brint]

I definately miss it. This past summer was the first out of the bush after 6 years of float flying. Love my new job, but miss all the fun that bush flying offers.

[monkeyspankmasterflex]

Oh, that type of bush, not so much.

[just clearing the trees]

I left the bush once. I found flying IFR was so dull I had to go back to the bush or I would have passed a bullet through my brain out of sheer boredom. I don't understand how people can do it. To each his own I guess.

[red003]

same thing here. i still fly over float country and listen in on everyone coming and going, debating the pros and cons of my ifr job at the same time.

here's what gets me everytime: despite the fact that flying floats is fun and everything, you get to work 6 months a year at most, have no pension, comparable paycheque or any of the other good stuff that comes with flying ifr for a big airline. the caveat being of course that flying an ifr sched is pretty boring. on the other hand when the time of year comes when i used to pack it in flying floats; i'm still in the air, not on the couch.

the job that i have now was too good to pass up, and my only wish is that it could've come in another 5 years or so. the debate never ends, tho, and i miss flying floats every single day since i've quit it.

[sky's the limit]

Precisley why I almost quit flying altogether. Went IFR after a fair number of years in the mountains, blasting around on big tires... Hated it.

Made the switch to helicopters, and now I have the "bush" and the airline $$$. Not a bad deal.