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Too bad that US pilots don't have either the experience or backbone to actually do this work. I have worked with these folks ... they are truely pilots cut from a different cloth. US pilots are too spoiled and lazy to actually work in the arctic.

Bob

In your b*tt Bob.
 
That looks like a good show. I don't know about the whole "film everything I do and put it on TV" though. The FAA would have a field day with you.
 
Too bad that US pilots don't have either the experience or backbone to actually do this work. I have worked with these folks ... they are truely pilots cut from a different cloth. US pilots are too spoiled and lazy to actually work in the arctic.

Bob

Wow. That's arrogance right there!

I think a lot of 135 cargo guys could be trained to do that kind of work, particularly those who have flown SP in the northern states. I don't know enough about the 121 world to venture a guess as to whether thay could "handle it" or not.
 
Great show! I wish I could have had an opportunity like that!

Thanks for posting the link!
 
ah my brothers reminds me of our winters in the early 90's flying 3's,piston Convairs,and the DC4 out of PTK,never a dull moment,though not quite as cold as NWT.
 
Don't let it raise your blood pressure, landlover, remember, it's a
tv show. The producers know that drama and conflict raise ratings,
so they add a healthy dose of unrealistic excitement (like all 'reality'
shows do) That said, it IS kind of neat. I remember seeing LaBaTa's
C-46 taking off and landing occasionally at Laredo, before it was destroyed by a tornado.
Those guys at Buffalo Air sure have cojones grandes, operating in those
temperatures.....my hat is off to them.
 

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