"Roger Long" wrote in message . ..

You are right about the bush pilot ethic.

I got my ASES at Alaska Float Ratings on the Kenai peninsula, which
also does a moderate amount of part 135 charter ops in the area with 3
floatplanes and 2 landplanes. The owner is a 30+ year bush pilot with
20k hours, most of it on floats up North. Suffice it to say that
while I was there for 4 days, there were probably 2 or 3 charter
flights to fishing lodges that either didn't take off, or turned back
on the way, including ones he flew himself. These were familiar routes
they flew sometimes a dozen times a day every day of the season for
over ten years. "I've never lost a plane, and no pilot I've trained
has ever died up here," he told me. True or not I could see that
unless Little Nell was waiting for her medicine on the other side,
there were plenty of flights they weren't going to push their limits
to make.

-cwk.