What amount of money would bring you to a reserve to fly?

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What amount of money would bring you to a reserve to fly?

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Humor me. May as well bring all types into play. Cessnas. Beavers and Norsemans. Otters.

If you've done it, what was your pay like? Even if it was 15 years ago. Time brings a factor into this one.

Your primary residence is on the reserve as well. Food and rent paid for.

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C-185, Summer Beaver, 1997 $1800/mo rent/power/phone in, food I had to get myself.. NO cable or internet! :shock:

Would I go back? Hell, yes! but not for $1800 any more..
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1995

Champ on floats

I think it was $1600/mo including food, lodging and transportation in and out at the beginning and end of the season plus for a 1 week vacation.
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Northern Alberta 1996, C-206 $2000/month, BN2 $2250/month. Seven days off or timex/month. Housing paid. No Food or transport "home". Lots of flying and pay was fine.

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NWONT, $3000/mo, C-185
Great experience at the time (first float job) but wouldn't go back for any amount of money.
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2002 DHC2 $3600/month accomodations covered, had to buy my own food (but usually ferried a lot of food in when I came back from 100 hour inspections in Thunder Bay). Would go back in a heart beat if work and family allowed for it, really enjoyed my stay (Webequie and Summer Beaver).
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91 185 $1500 plus accomodations in a new trailer food not included
96 nwo dhc-2 n some 185 $2500 plus accomodations
99 nwo dhc2 3500 +accomodations food great summer
2003 c208 amhip turbo otter n bit of 206 5500 mth my own accomodations
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North Shore wrote:C-185, Summer Beaver, 1997 $1800/mo rent/power/phone in, food I had to get myself.. NO cable or internet! :shock:

Would I go back? Hell, yes! but not for $1800 any more..
C-185, Summer Beaver, $1800/mo, rent/power/phone in, food I had to get myself... NO cable or internet! The only good thing about it was North Shore's home-baked scones! The cabin itself was wrapped in Tyvek to keep the wind from blowing right through it and after ol' "city boy" went home for the winter the roof started to leak when the wood stove melted the snow on top of the cabin. Ten minute walk to the school where there was an outdoor tap to fill up Jerry cans of water for cooking. Over to the Nursing Station for a shower once a week whether I needed one or not. Community members blasting through the front door like "Kramer" from Seinfeld at any time of the day or night looking for a "GOOD DEAL" to do a "SIDE TRIP". :roll:

Would I go back? Fu(k, NO!! Not for any kind of money... It was fine when North Shore was there to bake and joke around with, but being there by myself damaged my psyche permanently. I no longer value human life the way I used to. Other than my own of course.

For whatever kind of plane you'll be flying find out what your counterpart in a real community with beer and friends and a decent place to sleep could be getting paid, then add $1000/mo to that figure to live on the reserve. That might be reasonable for a short period of time.
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Hey North Shore and frozen Solid, Was that working for Jen and Andy in CYPL? I think I was working the ramp back then in Pickle at that time. PM me
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Ahhh, the tyvek! :lol:

I even tried a can of Klik once, too! :shock: Fried, with onions, mashed potatoes and gravy, and it still tasted terrible!
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1991 C185 $1500 No food
1995 Champ $1600 All inclusive
1996 c206 $2000 no food
Beaver $2500
1997 c185 $1800 no food no cable or internet
1999 Beaver $3500 All inclusive

NO DATES
c185 $3000
Beaver $3600 No food
c185 $1800

Seem to have lots of info for the 90s... Unfortunately it is 2010... Kind of gives me an idea though.

NWO specific now. Since most of you guys seemed to have started there. You are on a 185, pick any reserve. Sandy, Round, Summer Beaver. What would you ask for? And it is 2010...
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North Shore wrote:Ahhh, the tyvek! :lol:

I even tried a can of Klik once, too! :shock: Fried, with onions, mashed potatoes and gravy, and it still tasted terrible!
Klik fried in bannock strips is a specialty in the ywp coffee shop...it was definatly better than the bear jerky at 7am
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Monthly, if it was in twenty dollar bills you would over gross a 206!
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You specifically asked for details, "even if it was 15 years ago"! Sorry if I can't give you 2010 information, but I wouldn't have been caught dead living on a reserve anytime in the last decade... well you know what I mean. :rolleyes:

It's 2010? I'd ask for $3000 a month, plus a place to live. WITH running water.
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yes... That was what I was thinking as well... $3000 sounds pretty reasonable these days... Maybe even more...
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The year was 2010...DHC2 based in Northern ON. $4500/month, room + food included, internet/satellite tv, 3 weeks on 1 week off, plus a cash "bonus" at the end of the season for actually doing it. Would I do it again? Probably not, but I suppose I can tell my grand kids that I did it...
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I do it for the love of the game. Oh ya and for Coke and Dill Pickle chips.
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phillyfan wrote:I do it for the love of the game. Oh ya and for Coke and Dill Pickle chips.

So THAT's why you guys got the JV7 contract! :wink:
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$4500.. Room and Board. no internet, no cable, but I at least had running water!! Ohh and I was in da Beav.
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1994: Beaver, 25 cents per mile, $1200 month base pay, buy own food, Had to threaten drunken dock hand with a .30-.30 ( he had one too and found out I slept with mine ). Most legs 9 miles. 2 litres of milk $4.

I'd only go back if I were behind the controls of a armed nuclear bomber. :D
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1997: St. Theresa Point, MB. C-185, about $2500 a month. I was working directly for the reserve itself. Free accomodations if you could call it that. No booze. I lived in the back of the little office building and when the Fall came and it got cold I moved into the old shack next door because it had a wood stove. No running water. There was an out-house that was beginning to sink into its own hole and was leaning over. Mud, garbage and filth everywhere. Old transmissions and car batteries littered the bay where the dock was. Showers were at the nursing station (about a mile walk) or when I got to take the plane to Selkirk for the inspections. They did pay about 120 a day in per diems when I took the plane there but you had to get your own hotel out of that. Always did my laundry in Selkirk too.
Would I do it again? Not in a million years! I'd love to fly floats again but it would have to be in a somewhat normal place like Red Lake, Kenora, Yellowknife or the BC coast, ....definitely not on a reserve!
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Hey talking like that can get you BCR'd and banished by Band Council resolution to welfare heaven in Tbay, Winnipeg ,Saskatoon or Regina.
Any correlation between the most violent cities in Canada and the Cities that the Band Council resolutions banish their problems too:to be healed, is coincidental :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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I'd do it for a Klondike Bar.
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If you are doing it for the money, then you are in the wrong line of work..I am not saying to do it for free, but don't be afraid to smell the flowers beside the road of life as you go along.
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That is the exactly why you are living in a shack without heat and running water, getting paid below poverty wages and don't have any scheduled days off. Because of guys who fly along with a grin on there face, sniffing flowers without a care in the world about earning a decent living.
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