Dream Job
 

I'm interested to see what our dream jobs are.. Lets say if every flying job landed you the same coin; where would you be and what would you be flying?

I'm sure there are some young bucks who want the left seat of the 744 and some ol' timers wanting a Beaver on floats.

How about you?

Think the more time spent home is a good job.

Flying a pilatus porter ski plane at mt cook. If not there, then a porter mountain flying somewhere.

My dream job is where i can tell my boss: "Get stuffed, i do not feel like flying your ****box G5 today " and still get paid with all my bonuses and drives me home in his twin turbo Bentley......:cool:

Flying Nomads around Mt Cook...

Hang on... I do that already! :ok:

The gonad you must be one of the few.

Where did the NT Health N24 s end up VH-DH. etc?
Nice Collins airline gear on them...

hooters airline - Google Image Search

Not sure about the flying conditions but the view...:ok:

Didn't they go bust?

A twotter on floats flying drunk pommy female backpackers around Ibiza :ok:

Or perhaps the same said twotter on the barrier with the same said backpackers :E

Now that sounds like a job.

QF or DJ 738 skipper!

I'm a young buck wanting a beaver on floats... Or maybe a twotter, who knows one day I may be old and boring and need the twin time

Did 3 years on the TwinOtter on floats in the Maldives.... now i fly a jet.

Best fun you can have in public I reckon.

I got intimately acquainted with one on wheels a few weeks back.

It really makes you remember where you cut your teeth, the mates you made and the fun time you had back when you wished you flew a jet........

08-600
 

Flying a brand spanking new 08-600 Cresco with aircon and a hydraulic hopper out of the Twizel base, where all the cockies had concrete, sliding roof super bins and I could fly 800 hours a year. Most of you dont probably know what im talking about except old mate empacher there who knows how fantastic the sunrise on a calm day over the main divide can look like!!
...One can only dream

I thought-

I was the 'ants pants' when instructing on a PA-38,
An ACE when given control of an AC-50.
I was **** hot when I got my first Turbine on a N22.
Life was over when the F27/F28 came along,
and I still smile when I keep a 737 on the rails.

Just enjoy what you've got. There will be something much nicer just around the corner but if you don't appreciate the present you will never really enjoy what a career in aviation is all about.

Still smile about the Aero commander though!

AC-50
 

Ad astra.
I agree, The commander is a great aircraft, can't say enough good about them.
I just had a few too many hours in them. that's all.
Only complaint about them: Shocking in turbulence!
RWS888:E

Just Flying.

Um....Instructor or professional antique aeroplane flyer. Definitely more GA than RPT

(Ideally it'd be Formula One World Champion but that isn't going to ever happen)

GA all the way

Air Led Zep
 

Mercenary pilot. If you've got anything and you want it sent anywhere, I'll do it anytime. Rules? I make the rules. If you have an aeroplane I'll fly it. Helicopter gunship? Even better, just show me how to switch to guns because I'll be too close for missiles.
Preferably cruising below tree tops.

Remember kids, VMC is the recommended conditions only, Vne is not a limitation but a target speed to be achieved and anything less than a 25% overload is for pansies. :E

Something more realistic perhaps? Helo firebombing or STOL work into short mountain strips with lots of snow. Dash 7 would be nice. Wouldn't mind a rocket assisted takeoff in a Trislander either.

Flying around the bush in a Buffalo or Caribou, on short sectors with lots of landings and takeoffs from rough short strips :)

Probably pretty unlikely so a Kingair doing the same thing would be ok too.

Cheers
Tiger

Stuffing fifteen or so fares into a Pilatus in the highlands of PNG :{

(pre Kina) :E

http://www.remoteadventures.com/webpics/bergsm.jpg

http://www2.2space.net/images/upl_ne...1197471385.jpg

The Winner!

Beaver on floats in the whitsundays - plus aforementioned backpackers :) Or single seat jets, but I'm a bit old for that!

Beaver on floats??

http://static-p3.fotolia.com/jpg/00/...egkOhuzBbj.jpg

Hard to argue with that!

AUaCB :E

Wide bay, September 2001:

YouTube - Landing an RAAF Caribou



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Not bad, eccept for the military part. I was not a pilot then but wish I was.

Dream job now...probably RFDS

I vote this pprune post of the year!!

Very awesome Caribou pics! Makes me want to buy one when they retire from the RAAF... :ok:

Tiger

Seconded :D

Aileron 69, this countries hipothetical equivilant is maybe flying a Cresco but they only pay you half as much because they recon the Aircraft is twice as productive. You don't have concreted pads, only grass and three foot high thistles, if the truck driver can he'll find some rocks to tip on. The strip you use is rough as guts and full of rocks because the boss thinks he's getting one over the opposition because they refused to work off it. You have to work with a 100 metre swath and tell the cocky it throws to 120. There are still decent jobs around but few and far between.

ad-astra has the right idea, whatever you fly it's a long way in front of everyone who doesn't.

Stallie.....VERY GOOD....BUT.....I'm afraid you have come second in the 'Great Race'.....Yep. We're all jealous,...but....

The winner is 'Arm Up...';..............well he LOOKED 'armless enuf' Your Honour.

:ok::ok:

VH-DHP(S/N N24A-34) Became ZK-NMC lives on flying around Mt Cook - such a beautiful aeroplane to fly - the best in the fleet! ZK-DHU? (S/N N24A-60) became ZK-NMD, was put into storage in Darwin until the boss went over and rescued it with new engines and flew it back to NZ.. Also has the long range and tip tanks in it, so can fly about 8 hours with full fuel. :ok:

ZK-NMD still has the original Collins gear in it, and works like a charm! ZK-NMC has still the Collins gear, bar one VHF which got replaced with an Apollo GPS/COM.

Grumman Goose. Pacific Islands. I hear there is one headed to the Solomon's and one to Fiji to service resorts.
Remember Tales of the Golden Monkey on tv?

Definately a death pencil in the topend, where 35 degrees outside = 45 degrees in the cockpit.

Stallie takes the prize in my books, best of both worlds there!
:ok:

Thank you Mr Empacher
TAA originally decked them out at great expense I would imagine

Good days them good crew and well run by AN when I was involved sadly came to an end in 84

I'd happily keep my current job - but I would trade the Bonza for a TBM850 !

Dr :8

Being Hugh Hefner's pilot on his DC-9, would be a reasonable job.