Bush Pilot - A Path Less Chosen
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- Опубликовано: 4 июл 2024
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Huge thanks to Bryan for letting me tag along and see what a real bush pilot is made of. Its truly awesome seeing other young aviators follow their dreams and that there are still career paths out there in the flying world that aren't only the airlines.
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And here I thought I was special and Trent Palmer picked me out of everybody to get free stuff. Jeepers, what a let down. 😄
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Ha, Jay Leno said I won something the other day on his channel! You mean it's fake? ...Dang! I hate scammers.
Brian is a truly wealthy man. He is doing something that he loves so much that he gladly accepts the grunt work as "just part of the job". He is making memories that are priceless.
I was amazed how articulate Brian is and how well he articulates his life and goals. Truly a young man that loves doing what he does.
Spot on
AND HE GETS TO FLY A BEAVER!!!!!!! I mean... that is the BEST BOAT THAT FLYS in my opinion!!! :)
I mean, just take a look at the man and his entire demeanor - calm, articulate, aware. Disconnected with the world in the way that most of us know, and connected with the world in the way that most of us don't. Amazing, thanks for the vid Trent.
Boom this! ❤
This video almost makes me want to quit my 36 year airline job.
That kid is wise beyond his years!
Great piece, Trent. Thanks for that:)
Wise beyond his years Is the first thing I thought of when I heard him talk
Couldn’t agree more. Wise and mature far beyond his years.
Almost...LOL...
I know so many guys like this up here. It's a lot of hard work. These mountains demand a lot.
And probably making a lot more than the airlines.
You couldn’t have shown Bryan’s enthusiasm for flying and the lifestyle any more beautifully. Awesome video.
Flyin Bryan! The man, the myth, the legend… I can confirm he is both an excellent pilot and dish washer. Great video Trent!
Hey Jake! So cool to see stuff from our little corner on here.
Two very important life skills for sure!
@@SeanFalloy totally Sean, super cool… Trent did an amazing job with these!
“You’re using your head a little bit more, you’re getting away from the procedures a little bit more. You’re not doing what the book says”. This is the magic of floatplane flying. The personal challenges as a pilot are so much greater and so much more fulfilling (when you overcome the, which isn’t always). This is why even as a British pilot, I have over 100 hours on floats, mostly in Maine and Alaska. The magic is indescribable. If he’s green at 1,000hrs, I feel better for some of the floatplane flight failures I have in videos on my channel! Best and worst. Magic video Trent, thanks. Stunning.
Out of everything I have seen on your channel, that had to be the best 8 minutes and 27 seconds I have ever seen on your channel, Trent! That engine on Brian's plane sure does sound different on start-up than a Rotax. GREAT VIDEO!
Trent, absolutely amazing content. One of my favorite videos of yours to date. ( honestly enjoy all your content)
When I started flying in the 90's in Canada, this was one of the only ways you could get hours. Small aviation happens in the Bush in Canada, and now that people don't need to uproot and move up north to fly, it's pretty rare. Northern flying experience is invaluable and teaches judgement that can't be learned in other early career paths. Almost 30 years later I am a captain at an airline in Canada and I miss flying floats almost every day. I do not miss rolling drums however LOL.
Man this was beautifully shot and edited Trent. One of the best videos you have put together. I can feel the passion that Brian has for the environment in which he is working. You should do more mini documentaries like this on interesting people. Absolutely love it.
Fantastic video Trent. This was good storytelling and cinematography. Brian’s demeanor reminds me of Jim Tweeto.
Serious Flying Wild Alaska vibes here ❤️
Trent, that was really good and I hope you do more like this.
Its flying related. It's cool 👍
Trent, this was very good content and it highlights the flexibility and uniqueness of aviation as a career.
Trent, I really need to know if the offer above is legit. It seems pretty fishy.
It’s spam, all of RUclips is getting these fake accounts that are commenting back. I’ve been chasing and deleting as many as I can. Basically if you don’t see a check mark next to my name then it isn’t me!
@@TrentonPalmer awesome! Thank you!
Dude that was so well done!! Everything about that video was great!! I always thought your videos were like mini documentaries about your flying, life or whatever you were doing that day. You should do more videos about other people like this one.
Not that yours are boring just say’n this was really well done!!
Bryan is a beauty! Grateful for our time up there meeting some rad pilots and exploring some unreal terrain
Love this little vignette! Beautifully shot and captivating.
Trent this is somehow simply outstanding. All of your videos are entertaining. This is another level. Wow to be able to work with someone like Brian anywhere in the world would be amazing. What an extraordinary young man. But the gift is your telling of the story. Thank you, thank you Brian as well.
It's so cool to hear stories like this. There are so many different paths in aviation and that what makes it so awesome, it's an adventure 🙂
Good old De Havilland Beaver. What a reliable workhorse. Great video Trent!!! I think it’d be hard to come home from up there in BC. So beautiful!!! Thanks for sharing!!!
Fantastic video Trent! My grandad was a pioneer aviator in Canada WW1 then superintendent for DOT for Yukon and BC; his pilot’s licence was #9. He had over 15,000 hours. My dad was a bush pilot with over 8,000 hours flying up and down the BC coast in and out of logging and mining camps. There are dozens of communities in northern Canada that rely entirely on bush planes for supplies, medicvac, etc Your video brought back memories and the amazing stories. Thx so much. I look forward to enjoying more of your great adventures.
Hi Trent! Long time viewer, first time commenter. Thank you for posting this video. Last year I moved to Alaska for a fly fishing guiding job, and quickly realized that I’d much rather be in the left seat of the beavers that were flying us out to fish. For the past nine months I’ve been on the warpath to become a professional bush pilot, getting a job in aviation (CAD for a components company), penny pinching to afford flight school. All to get where Brian is. This video is fuel in my tank in a big way. Thank you buddy
You are one of the best content creators on RUclips and Bryan will have this phenomenal video forever. Great job!
Your BEST VIDEO EVER TRENT...keep it up my pilot brother.
I would never claim to be a bush pilot, but still can tell you I'll never get used to gasoline fumes in the cockpit. And, dude, any job that gets you paid to be out there is like gold in my book. Don't take it for granted, unless you think you'd like the rat-race better.
Well done Trent!
Well said: "Success to me is not just about money."
Sometimes I see what awesome jobs some people have and think it's so amazing. Trent, you did spectacular on this video. The interview format is greatly appreciated.
Thank you for featuring this humble young man who has chosen the path less traveled. In his brief 24 years he has crammed a lifetime of beautiful scenery and experiences most of us will never see. Great job Trent!
This was phenomenal. I could absolutely see this extended into a feature length film. The cinematography was beautiful.
got my float rating in alaska flying a beaver just like this one! can confirm that the bush and seaplane experience is totally different from “regular” land flying. no procedures, no windsocks, no METAR - i realized how easy it is to get overconfident when you’re only dealing with wheels asphalt and ATC. this kind of flying is amazingly fun and forces you to use whatever you have available. i gotta say, the view is a big part of the reward too. amazing scenery in the north.
by the way, those engineers at de Havilland Canada designed a hell of a bush plane in the DHC-2. that rear door is specifically shaped to accommodate a 55g drum, and the whole airframe was designed for floats from the beginning. incredible plane, takes off and lands shorter than a cub on floats.
I’m 21 and joining the AF to become a pilot after working as an FA for American and the feeling I got on my first flight of just being alone in the air in a place no a lot of people get to be is just amazing, and even though I like the airlines and the feeling of walking into the airport in uniform my heart wants this, or both. I’ll see where life takes me but I see myself doing both, this is beautiful. Man after my own heart
The Spatsizi is beautiful country, I live in northern BC and have been on several search and rescue flights up there including some in the renowned Beaver aircraft.
More videos like this! Trent, this was inspiring. There's so many avenues in Aviation. Maybe you can make a series interviewing people like Brian that have made their living off of aviation and how they got there.
One of the best produced videos I have seen in a long time. Fantastic storytelling, Trent.
By far, the BEST Video You’ve ever done in my opinion Trent! The Editing, Colors and Music were damn phenomenal. For a moment, I thought I was watching a movie and I felt like I was in it at the same time! Amazing to say the least…✈️✈️🛫
Good job Trent. Congratulations Brian. So Trent are you in the act of becoming more of a professional documentarian? If this is an example, go for it. That experiences in my life of depending on my abilities and judgement to successfully navigate the immense wild of bush Alaska for so many years to meet the variety of challenges involved in that type of flying is priceless. Which of course is the issue: dollars or value?
6:55 RU kidding?! This is my favorite vid you’ve posted! It shows a nice, grateful, hard-working, resourceful blue-collared, red-blooded, 24 yr old bush pilot tell part of his story.
AND, the cinematography…freakin’ amazing job! Of course, God made the stunningly beautiful scenery. But you did an incredible job capturing the ol’ plane against the VAST, majestic wilderness!
Very stunning/very inspiring! Thank you very much!
Great video Trent. Love Brian's story. It's inspiring to know there are still young folks like him out there chasing the dream.
Outstanding! I used to work at a coastal lounge owned by a retired pilot. He started his career as a military pilot and then transitioned into commercial airlines. After several years he decided to go private and started his own charter business. While working at that for several years a client recommended him to someone in Saudi Arabia as a pilot they needed. He was offered and accepted the job as pilot for the Prince of Saudi Arabia! He said they paid him VERY well and it was a lot more than he could make doing charters or working commercial. He continued as their pilot until his retirement as a multi-millionaire!
I'm just starting out bush flying, worked the dock, loaded planes, fixed outboards, fell in love with the camp cook....did it all just to get in the right seat once in a while.
Finally getting my training in on a 180 and should have my own machine in a few days.
Pay isn't great and my back hurts but I couldn't be happier...I'm just glad kods these days hate the bush, more for me :)
"Well, would you like to sit down and tell us what you do" so Bryan gets into a Beaver & starts it up. A picture speaks a thousand words :D
Fantastic!!! I worked on Bravo Papa Bravo over 20 years ago in my early days of pulling wrenches on airplanes. Great to see it still going strong. Awesome video!!
I did that for a season in the early 90s in N Ontario, when an opportunity for a career switch came along. I did flying-only of a C-180 for an air service, no secondary joe jobs, about 475 hrs between May and Oct. Couldn't continue, being married with 2 kids, 3rd on the way, and went back to an office job after taking the winter off. Sometimes you just have to sacrifice your dreams for the others that depend on you. But, Most Fun Summer Of My Life, although I missed my family terribly. It's a live by your wits type of flying, a world of fuzzy boundaries, on both weather and loads, not so much go-no-go like the IFR world. More like, "Eh... well... ok lets try it." and you set your own limits on what's safe and what's not. Now I'm retired and at 66 I could probably go get a job any time with 500 hrs of float time from all those years ago, but not sure I want to spend a summer away.
Since my father took me flying for the first time when i was 12yo, i loved it, and learning about bush flying i hoped and tried with all my effoert to become one of them.
Unfortunately i ended up smashing against two insurmontable obstacles: first off i live in Europe, and the demand for bush pilots is zero. Secondly ,and far more serious, i never had the money to get the licences. I made many sacrifices to get a private pilot licence anyway but no matter what i do i'll never be able to afford a commercial licence, especially if it involve going abroad to study.
Well, there's still the lottery...
I've been following you for several years Trent and this video is a masterpiece. You brought us so up-close to the daily life of Brian, yeah, nearly as being there, so real. Superb finishing following his plane along the water.
Outstanding video, Trent! I've always been amazed at how different aviation gets the further north you go. Bush pilots, IMO, have always been some of the most interesting, hardworking and resourceful people I've met. Thanks for sharing Bryan's story - super cool!
The nice thing about YT is that it opens up the world to everybody to see what's out there. If they would've had it 40 years ago I might have chosen a different career path.
Your videos are always great. However, this one is different and one of the best in my opinion. Thanks for putting in the time to do these, it’s well appreciated.
Content, editing, drone work, interviewing skills hell, even your selection of music are spot on professional!! Thanks Brotherman!
Absolute A+ for production values: subject and story, interviews and B roll, sound capture, and program editing. You kept it all moving and on track, and left me wanting more.
Hits a man right in the heart watching this Trent. Nicely captured.
There are things that spark passion,
There is passion that is a flame,
And there is a bonfire in my heart.
I love the sound of a float plane radial idling. The best sound! Brings back childhood memories 🥰
Great video. Once I started watching, I couldn't stop and was really wanting to see more. Thanks Trent!
All your videos are great but this one is exceptional. More content like this would not go unnoticed. Keep up the good work sir.
I knew I shouldn't have watched this, it reminds me too much of the dreams I had of being a bush pilot. For me it never worked out, life just took a different direction, and even my dreams of flying had to go on hold indefinitely. Brian is definitely doing something special with his life, and its cool to see that he knows it.
Brian's story is everything so many people want. You did an amazing job capturing it. I hope Brian knows how blessed he is, great young guy doing some amazing work. Hope Brian can see these comments sometime.
Trent, that was a great short video interview with Brian and his passion for aviation. You should do more video interviews of other pilots. Nice work!
As a single sea and multi sea pilot this video highlights the joys of back country flying. It’s ok not to be airline destined. What a great story
As a former pilot who went through the Confederation College Flight Management program this is the real joy of flying.
Brian has a smile and looks in his eyes that says it all.
While there may be long days, frustrating days and scary times with weather, at the end of the day, being a bush pilot is the last true adventure in life.
I crashed out of flying, started experiencing panic attacks and knew I was no longer safe to fly since I didn't trust my judgment anymore.
I got into our busing on the ground and finished off a wonderful career as a tour operator in Banff and Jasper.
Do I miss the flying?
Yup, but that's why I can live it with videos like this every now and again.
Thank you Trent!
Great piece Trent! Love to see more of these vignettes focusing on the various paths/passions within aviation. Keep up the great work.
Safe, competent, and well educated. You are an excellent ambassador for bush flying Trent.
I really gotta say, as much as I love anything of your content - the quiet, focused style, just him sharing his views was really really awesome. Keep it up!
I know you’ll never see this but this is maybe my favorite video of yours. Actually, I say that all the time about all of your videos because they all rock! I just turned 60 so I’m in the last quarter of my life. It’s hit me hard. I want to make sure I do all I can while I can. This is such an inspiration. He’s following his passion and so are you at such young ages. Thank you, thank you, thank you for what you do and sharing it. Godspeed
Trent…geez…Trent, thank you for this totally amazing video mate!
It is an eye opener to what someone can do with their dreams!
To fly and experience the day to day in the wild experience must be the most satisfying of all careers!
Nice one Trent Palmer! 💪🏻👍🏻😊
Success is freedom not money. I’ve been a bush pilot, an airline pilot and everything in between. Follow you gut and you’re always an the right path!
I REALLY enjoyed this one. GREAT to see "the aviation road less traveled"!! I like his take on his life. He seems to be enjoying it very much. MORE power to him. I hope he can continue to do that for a LONG time. Thanks to you for doing this a presenting it for us watchers out here.
That young man "defines" alot of the flying here in canada and in the north!
Fly with your head, be smart, and use your skills, all while being safe, loving what you do and really living!
Great episode!
Cheers from Manitoba Canada!
Bryan has the courage of his convictions and the determination to experience and enjoy the backcountry in ways that few of us will every get to do, and at a very young age. Thoroughly enjoyed this video and your cinematography was excellent, Trent, and it sure looks like you put some extra effort into capturing the beauty of the terrain as well as the joy of flying in this environment. Very well done, kudos to you and Bryan!
Trent, great job on the videography. The mix of the personal video & the drone video is a winning combination.
I appreciate your honesty & candor on your videos.
This personal interest story on Brian was well done; I’m proud of his accomplishments. His transparency on the personal cost & his persistence to reach his dreams is inspiring.
Trent, I think the Spatsizi touched you in a way that only those who have been there would know. I mean your still posting content from that trip.
you will be back often.
Welcome to the club.
I was only looking yesterday thinking it feels like too long since we had a Trent clip! What a great video! Awesome hearing Brian on bush flying, awesome landscapes, awesome DHC-2 & can't wait till MSFS finally have this in their sim!
These types of videos are why RUclips is a treasure. Between letting people know this is possible to making it a nice side gig.....amazing. Thank you.
Thanks a lot to you Trent for this awesome video! It's so well made that it's almost moving. True spirit of aviation, that Beaver touched my heart even if I'm a helicopter pilot. This video smells of freedom and old fashion airmanship of the old good (and lost) times!
Really really enjoyed! Thanks a lot again!
Love the video and great to see a young man truly living life and enjoying what he does!
The calmness in him shows how satisfied or likes or enjoys his work...👍👍👍👍lot to learn from him....
Trent, you need to do more of these. I’ve seen a ton of pilot spotlights and this was, by far, the best!
LOVE IT. Thank you. Everything, from the interview, to the music... Outstanding job, AS USUAL.
Growing up in the UK I had no idea that a life like this existed. I thought the only flying was airlines or Air Force and my eyesight precluded both. Much later I discovered this sort of flying and oh how I would have loved that life. Now, in my 50's, I've ended up with a tiny plane that I fly from a local grass strip and still dream of one day flying it to the US and exploring the back country.
The fact that he used the word “pride” talking about a job amazed me!
Good job and wicked video! Thank you!
So glad I came across your channel, Trent. Great content, for sure, plus you are highlighting the upcoming generations and their passions as well. I am way past the prime of ATP or Professional pilot in general, but your videos, among a few others, have inspired me to pursue the art of flight starting with my PPL. Keep it coming, my friend, blue skies and tail winds to you and yours.
dude this was awesome. Great story telling, great interview and amazing visuals. Love your color grading. Kudos Trent. keep up the great work!
Thank you for showcasing an alternative to the airlines. I've been testing the waters for years but just couldn't commit to the airline lifestyle. Keep it up guys!🤙
I never watch RUclips videos more than once, but this is my second watch. This kid impresses the hell out of me.
I was a fly fishing guide in the Florida keys many years ago and know how Brian feels.
I worked on bush planes back in the 1970s, in Timmins, Ontario. Beaver, Otter, C 180/185s, Twin Otters, DC3s, PBY5As,
I served them all, and enjoyed it. Until the cold got too much for me! LOL Then I went to deHavilland and built Twin Otters and Dash 8s! Bush flying is the best!!
Thank you Trent,
Great video.
One can’t help but feeling a lot of respect for this young gentleman.
I really enjoyed this video. Brian is a humble young man that has more wealth than he might know right now. He is exactly what bush flying needs. They need more like him.
Great video! Brings back some great memories of the bush. I was the same at 24, and after 10 years if it, and wanting to start a family and see more of the world, I made the best choice for me and moved up.
I would love to see a follow-up video of Brian at 34 and compare. He's only just starting to fly the beaver. So much more adventure ahead!
Outstanding Video Trent. Love the way you interview Brian. He is a super guy, his smile says it all.
Thanks for the memories of float-planing to hike the Spatsizi Plateau many moons ago in a 172 on floats with a full load....
What a great guy and passion he has to be up north and loving what he does
Trent, as always, professional video, interviews, stories, great work, you always create great videos, I think! Have a great day!
Without doubt , one of you best videos . Really a mini documentary. Outstanding. Cheers from B.C.
I could feel my shoulders when he mentioned the words…empty the floats !
Very wholesome video Trent, You're inspiring alot of young people. Keep them coming
Dude. Great video. Love the way you bring out the true character of people. Your a natural at this. Not that you need another job but your good at it and I think it would be super cool to see more. 🤘
I hope you more videos like this in the future. Your ability to film incredible scenes and tell a story are fantastic.
Bush flying is what helps many remote communities survive. In fact in some cases it is the one thing that makes it possible for them to exist at all. There are many people who have reason to thank the bush pilots for their work.
Trent amazing video. You captured so well Brian's passion and enthusiasm for bush flying. Would have liked to see you handling a bush plane.
What a beautiful video, the scenery is amazing and the interview was great! I'd love to see you do more videos about aviation careers other than airline pilots! Almost makes me want to quit my aviation job to move north, thanks again!