You know you are a bush pilot when.... :)
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You know you are a bush pilot when.... :)
Ok, a bunch of us have done it.....
You know you are a bush pilot when....
- you look at that work shirt you wore yesterday and the day before and you think, yeah it'll do one more day.
- you have to remember how to speak english to activate your SARWATCH.
- your pax get nervous if you pull out a chart. Don't you know the way?
- you taxi with 10 POB in a C206.
- your Lajamanu pax don't smell so bad.
- you make more money from selling smokes than you make from flying aeroplanes.
- you dream of how many ciggies, KFC and kava deaks would fit into a 737.
- you wonder if you could cross hire a 737 and get it into dumamudgegaart airstrip once you work out how many ciggies/KFC/kava it can bring in.
- you design an underbelly pod for the 737 to get pax and ciggies/KFC/kava in in one trip and charge for both.
- you can't trust your employer to pay you award wages, but you trust the pilot from the other community to hold $10,000 in cash for you.
- Instead of J-Lo's butt in your bed or a Ferrari under your @rse, you dream of an ISO tank with an electric pump at your home base.
Others?
You know you are a bush pilot when....
- you look at that work shirt you wore yesterday and the day before and you think, yeah it'll do one more day.
- you have to remember how to speak english to activate your SARWATCH.
- your pax get nervous if you pull out a chart. Don't you know the way?
- you taxi with 10 POB in a C206.
- your Lajamanu pax don't smell so bad.
- you make more money from selling smokes than you make from flying aeroplanes.
- you dream of how many ciggies, KFC and kava deaks would fit into a 737.
- you wonder if you could cross hire a 737 and get it into dumamudgegaart airstrip once you work out how many ciggies/KFC/kava it can bring in.
- you design an underbelly pod for the 737 to get pax and ciggies/KFC/kava in in one trip and charge for both.
- you can't trust your employer to pay you award wages, but you trust the pilot from the other community to hold $10,000 in cash for you.
- Instead of J-Lo's butt in your bed or a Ferrari under your @rse, you dream of an ISO tank with an electric pump at your home base.
Others?
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Dunno about 10 POB in a C206 but I once had 23 POB in a BN2!!(Think it was that many!)
You only live twice. Once when
you're born. Once when
you've looked death in the face.
You only live twice. Once when
you're born. Once when
you've looked death in the face.
What a great thread, unfortunately I can't contribute much to the POB discussion but here are a few other offerings:
You know you are a bush pilot when...
- the dusty-looking, slightly overweight chick who just started working at the pub actually appears good looking
- you go to Broome/Darwin or some other 'big smoke' and eat nothing but Maccas/KFC/Pizza Hut/Eagle Boys for a couple of days to satisfy your junk food urges
- you think nothing of a 30 person brawl outside the pub on a Friday night, crowbars included, and just keep on stumbling home
- you haven't had a 'proper' haircut in a year, except for a number two with the clippers every couple of months
- you haven't worn shoes (other than your work blundies) in a long long time
- you actually start to understand what the bloke on HF is saying
I'm sure others can do much better!
TL
You know you are a bush pilot when...
- the dusty-looking, slightly overweight chick who just started working at the pub actually appears good looking
- you go to Broome/Darwin or some other 'big smoke' and eat nothing but Maccas/KFC/Pizza Hut/Eagle Boys for a couple of days to satisfy your junk food urges
- you think nothing of a 30 person brawl outside the pub on a Friday night, crowbars included, and just keep on stumbling home
- you haven't had a 'proper' haircut in a year, except for a number two with the clippers every couple of months
- you haven't worn shoes (other than your work blundies) in a long long time
- you actually start to understand what the bloke on HF is saying
I'm sure others can do much better!
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when you start knowing the difference between one green frog and another hanging on for dear life when you flush the toilet.
when you use a whipper snipper with no guard, no safety glases and you've been tasked to trim the weeds around the mechanics shed.
when hair in your food no longer phases you.
when you eat mince meat or steak for breakfast.
when you eat smoko sandwiches with blood guts and dirt caked on your hands and just shrug your shoulders.
when going to Tennant Creek or Mt. Isa feels like you are in Paris or New York. Now you are really hitting the big time - Mt. Isa is an MBZ.
Gee it makes you appreciate the smaller things in life. I'd kill to be tree tops in that little machine again.
when you use a whipper snipper with no guard, no safety glases and you've been tasked to trim the weeds around the mechanics shed.
when hair in your food no longer phases you.
when you eat mince meat or steak for breakfast.
when you eat smoko sandwiches with blood guts and dirt caked on your hands and just shrug your shoulders.
when going to Tennant Creek or Mt. Isa feels like you are in Paris or New York. Now you are really hitting the big time - Mt. Isa is an MBZ.
Gee it makes you appreciate the smaller things in life. I'd kill to be tree tops in that little machine again.
You know you've been a 'Bush Pilot' when the Airline you now fly for has those 'Black-fella Samsonites' for excess baggage and you remember all the turtle meat and dugong those things could carry and you look to see if blood is dripping out every time you see one in the terminal. 
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You know you're a bush pilot when:
- The only sealed strip you land on is your home base one, and even then only if you're lucky
- You get excited about going into controlled airspace, only to realise you haven't done it in so long, you sound like a looser on the radio with no idea
- You don't need to worry about the rules regarding life jackets because the nearest large body of water (sewerage tanks excluded) is about 1,500Km's away
- GPS becomes your primary means of navigation, because you're sick of drawing lines on maps to dot's (communities) where there's supposed to be an airstrip (in the vicinity anyway...)
Ahhhh, the joys of GA.
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- The only sealed strip you land on is your home base one, and even then only if you're lucky
- You get excited about going into controlled airspace, only to realise you haven't done it in so long, you sound like a looser on the radio with no idea
- You don't need to worry about the rules regarding life jackets because the nearest large body of water (sewerage tanks excluded) is about 1,500Km's away
- GPS becomes your primary means of navigation, because you're sick of drawing lines on maps to dot's (communities) where there's supposed to be an airstrip (in the vicinity anyway...)
Ahhhh, the joys of GA.
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You know you are a bush pilot when:
You're the only person in a 200km radius wearing jocks.
You know which abc presenter will be on the radio any time of day.
You kill 3 snakes and a feral cat with a stick on the walk over to the hangar .
You hop on the ttr-250 and rip up the airstrip to chase the horses out before they crap all over it.
You can steer a 44 gal. drum purely with you're feet
You've pushed the Garmin 100 to the edge of the envelope.
The crazy woman that runs Mt Isa Airport yells at you to get off the tarmac, (no one wearing a pair of wranglers and slightly faded work shirt could possibly be a pilot?)
You have trouble remembering how to do a circuit at 1000'AGL
You're the only person in a 200km radius wearing jocks.
You know which abc presenter will be on the radio any time of day.
You kill 3 snakes and a feral cat with a stick on the walk over to the hangar .
You hop on the ttr-250 and rip up the airstrip to chase the horses out before they crap all over it.
You can steer a 44 gal. drum purely with you're feet
You've pushed the Garmin 100 to the edge of the envelope.
The crazy woman that runs Mt Isa Airport yells at you to get off the tarmac, (no one wearing a pair of wranglers and slightly faded work shirt could possibly be a pilot?)
You have trouble remembering how to do a circuit at 1000'AGL
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Oi Woomera; 19 in a 402 y'say??
To paraphrase a former Qld politician......."please explain"
A PM will do if you don't wish to incriminate yourself!
You only live twice. Once when
you're born. Once when
you've looked death in the face.
To paraphrase a former Qld politician......."please explain"
A PM will do if you don't wish to incriminate yourself!
You only live twice. Once when
you're born. Once when
you've looked death in the face.
Grandpa Aerotart
Woomera was that doing shuttles between Open Bay and Rabaul in concert with an E55 Baron...30 pax on the last flights (11 in the Baron) and off for a afternoon scuba dive
Personal best 42 in a Twotter/20 in an Islander..woulda been 21 but one guy was, apparently, one of the few survivors of Tony Stevenson's (RIP) wreck and wouldn't go...big girl
Oh and you know you're a bushpilot when sectors flown outnumber hours flown 4-1.
When close shaves that would scare any normal pilot into retirement don't raise the pulse.
When you think in the local language while speaking it.
When 1000 agl seems really high.
When 20 agl seems pretty high.
When the first thought post bird strike is "Hah...made ace!"
Leaves? Try banana leaves after landing....honest it just appeared from nowhere and hit me...then dissappeared again
When a deliberate ground loop and application of takeoff power is deemed a legit braking technique and has been used by more than one of your mates.
When you slide down the Markham river to the coast...really low and do a rate one turn onto finals without seeing the runway...and one of th senior pilots says "which way did you get in Chuck?" "Down the Markham at dot feet" "what about the power lines?........."Power lines?"
Personal best 42 in a Twotter/20 in an Islander..woulda been 21 but one guy was, apparently, one of the few survivors of Tony Stevenson's (RIP) wreck and wouldn't go...big girl
Oh and you know you're a bushpilot when sectors flown outnumber hours flown 4-1.
When close shaves that would scare any normal pilot into retirement don't raise the pulse.
When you think in the local language while speaking it.
When 1000 agl seems really high.
When 20 agl seems pretty high.
When the first thought post bird strike is "Hah...made ace!"
Leaves? Try banana leaves after landing....honest it just appeared from nowhere and hit me...then dissappeared again
When a deliberate ground loop and application of takeoff power is deemed a legit braking technique and has been used by more than one of your mates.
When you slide down the Markham river to the coast...really low and do a rate one turn onto finals without seeing the runway...and one of th senior pilots says "which way did you get in Chuck?" "Down the Markham at dot feet" "what about the power lines?........."Power lines?"
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When in the days of Flight Service (pre Dick Smith),Brisbane FS ask for the runway your using on HF for landing, as you cancel sar,and your reply is ""Whats a runway""
When you call Dubbo FS and cancel sar watch at ""The pub"" and at ""Gin City""
I love it
When you call Dubbo FS and cancel sar watch at ""The pub"" and at ""Gin City""
I love it
Geez, Triple B, you must be as old as I am to be able to remember THOSE halcyon days of yore! Join Date: Nov 2003
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You know your a bush pilot when:
You have to buzz the airstrip 3 times to get the elephants to at least move to the side. Only to go-around again at 2 feet off the deck cos an Impalla has jumped out in front of you.
You look at the temperature inside the plane and it is well past 50 degrees, there is nowhere to hide.
Your GPS drops out and you have to fly for over 2 hours on a set compass heading.
You land at an airstrip and then have to wait in the plane until a couple of lions move off from their afternoon rest.
You dont recognise your 206 because of its fancy new mud/dirt paint variation.
You fly an 8 hour day in the seat and then you get up and do the same the next day and the next and the next........
You become good at handling your drink but not so good with the ladies!
You look at the temperature inside the plane and it is well past 50 degrees, there is nowhere to hide.
Your GPS drops out and you have to fly for over 2 hours on a set compass heading.
You land at an airstrip and then have to wait in the plane until a couple of lions move off from their afternoon rest.
You dont recognise your 206 because of its fancy new mud/dirt paint variation.
You fly an 8 hour day in the seat and then you get up and do the same the next day and the next and the next........
You become good at handling your drink but not so good with the ladies!
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You know your a bush pilot when,
When you climb to 500' to do the "right thing " joining the circuit, but by the time you get to base your back at 200' were it's more comfortable.
When landing on that strip you saw by the yards or bore to clean oil off your windscreen every 15 minutes dos'nt faze you.
You claim your swag on your tax as an accomodation expense, and it's the truth.
You and your pax are approved to carry a weapon for survival purposes.
The local girls have taken a likeing to you and have started following you around.
The HF guy dosn't use your callsign to call you because your the only one on the frequency and he only wanted a chat anyway.
When you climb to 500' to do the "right thing " joining the circuit, but by the time you get to base your back at 200' were it's more comfortable.
When landing on that strip you saw by the yards or bore to clean oil off your windscreen every 15 minutes dos'nt faze you.
You claim your swag on your tax as an accomodation expense, and it's the truth.
You and your pax are approved to carry a weapon for survival purposes.
The local girls have taken a likeing to you and have started following you around.
The HF guy dosn't use your callsign to call you because your the only one on the frequency and he only wanted a chat anyway.