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Thanks for sharing. Awesome area. How can people watch such great video and scenery and not lift their finger to hit the like button? Nuts!

Bill Jex, BC Provincial Wild Sheep & Goat Specialist, would be good contact.

I am new to your channel. You could be a great asset to BC Stone Sheep, by your keen observation of the areas you fly to. Coastal Range,Mount Edziza,Spatsizi plateau, Cassiar,Omineca,Muskwa, No. Rockey Mtn. Range. Bighorn Sheep Conservation BC/USA.

Awesome👍

I have 10 hours on floats for a 130 hours total. Floats is by far the most fun hours. Floats are for the free spirited ones! Thanks for sharing these information - will practice more maneuvers on steps and max weight take offs thanks to you.

Are there any external loads that actually add lift or is really only drag that you notice?

nice flying.

Yip

True! Nothing better than floats in Northern BC

Nice! What are you doing off-season? Do you fly on skis/wheels?

Great video. Do you have an instructor rating for floats?

Flying floats was my dream job. But after a while I began to fondly remember the wheel days when you could relax somewhat once the wheels were on the ground.

That was enough to abort?

Windshield glare not the best.

Good video! Some things I would add to your various points: A) Time requirements are higher on the west coast and in the territories. Central Canada has some very busy bush operators that will take a decent pilot with a basic float rating. That being said, that environment can be rather sink or swim oriented, so a decent operator will be choosy with who passes their training, or gets trained in the first place. B) knots for sure. Cleats, dock rails and dock rings all have their own technique. Know a Bowline upside down and backwards, as well as a Truckers Hitch and Half Hitch. Other knots can be used, but those three have served me well for every dock, beach or external load. Also, learn how to wrap and organize your ropes well, and always keep a medium length accessible to the pilot without having to dig to the back of your load to get it. C) Step work. Agreed on all accounts. 30 seconds is a long time on the step for a piston, wouldn't go much more than that. Only use the step taxi as a natural component of your take off or landing run. Don't, for example, put it on step to get to the north shore of the lake, so that you can take off toward the south. Use it to maneuver within reason. An operator who cares about the aircraft (as we should want them to) will look at the unnecessary extra high temp, high stress cycle needed to get it on step very negatively. I have seen people nearly fired for it. Step attitude is just a little bit more nose high than idle taxi attitude for any aircraft I have ever been in. If you get in a new type, or the same type on different floats, try to lock that idle taxi image out of the windscreen in your mind, as a reference for take off and landing. D) Agreed on downwind docking. A depressing number of float resources will tell you that it is just not don't in floatplanes. Definately not true in the commercial world. Practice downwind docking, off the dock winds, quarter tailwind both directions, try it all. Understanding what effect the wind will have on your plane is the most crucial part of keeping yourself, your airplane and your clients safe. Also try off-side docking where you need to scramble across the cowl, Jesus-wire or spreader bars onto the other side of the airplane to get to the dock. Kind of on the same topic is learn to use your paddle, both as a paddle, a pole and a lever. E) sailing the airplane, power on and off. Also the willingness to give up attempting to taxi downwind in a high wind situation, and resort to sailing. Isn't always elegant, but it beats flipping a plane. F) Carry a good leatherman, or equivalent multi tool. I use one as various tools multiple times a day, and having a knife on my belt to cut a snagged rope has saved my aircraft from possibly substantial damage twice already. G) Learn from everybody, but don't take anyone's word as gospel. Combine the best knowledge from every person you can talk to and make your own conclusions. Try to keep the ego low and the logic and forethought high. Anyhow, sorry for the rant. Great video! I've often felt inspired to create one along a similar theme, but it certainly wouldn't look anywhere near as pretty as yours. Helluva a job we have been lucky enough to do! No two days are the same and the people and natural beauty we encounter in the day to day are remarkable. 7 seasons and 2700 commercial float hours later, I'm still learning and loving every day. Well, almost every day haha.

Great video once again! I’m right in the middle of my float rating training, so, much of what you talked about makes perfect sense! Thanks!

You have the greatest office view! Gives new meaning to “working remotely “

18mins in. Your on top

I have a bush pilot friend in Alaska who had to walk miles around a lake (in brown bear country) because his plane sailed to the other side in strong winds. Oh, and he was soaking wet, because he initially tried to swim after it. It's always something.

I have wondered if chucking something (like a rock) out of the window and into the lake would provide enough definition to glassy water to allow for a return to that spot to land.

The picture of the second cleat hitch looked like a prime example of tying more knots 😁

Pleasant comment! Great vid.

Good Stuff!

Thank you Jamie! Another informative video. I am always impressed when I check and see that you uploaded yet another video 😂🙌🏼 keep it going!

Bush pilot job seems way more fun than a non-bush pilot job! 😅

Another Great Vid, AIRCAB at CH, Steve

Not bad advice 👌🏻… look like you’re sitting on the wet coast somewhere.

Thanks for trips!

Thanks for the tips, sounds like good advice

Great information…thanks for your vlog!

Nice one!

These are great tips...Thanks

wow! what an amazing flight

Good stuff!!!!!!!!

Hard to tell what the real limit is until you exceed it! X wind take off in narrow channels was always my biggest pucker factor

Absolutely mind-boggling epic footage! Thanks so much for making this, it totally made my day!

man can't wait for you to add more videos!!!

Great video... It would be nice to see the plane itself, no?

Breathtaking!

Well it’s about time you shut up 😂… kidding man. Another stellar video! Makes me really miss the bush👌🏻

I always play the "What if" when I fly. Would landing on snow with floats be a ...............

Nice

Another great video! Keep it up!

This was just breathtaking. Certainly not the best paid job in the world, but surely the most rewarding. It me reminds me of the majestic flights I did when I worked in the mountains. And also of my pure hatred for the gopro's colour management.

Nut

Flew for years but hadn’t learn to fly until i flew floats. Had a182 on amphib wips for years. No end to the stories.

Are you planning to stay as a bush pilot as a long career ?

should have been running Aerocet floats. the rivets ALWAYSY leak.

new subscriber... hope to fly my RV6 out to Vancouver Island next summer, any cool places on the island to check out?

Nice !