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Learning to Be an Alaskan Bush Pilot

Author : Jerry Potter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781410799791
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Learning to Be an Alaskan Bush Pilot written by Jerry Potter and published by . This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are questioning the purpose of your job, reminiscing about career roads not taken, or worrying about the status of your retirement, this book may be for you. If you are overwhelmed by the onslaught of negative news or redefining what is important to you, these might be words you need to read. Wherever you are in life, but especially if you are experiencing a mid-life transition, you might view Soul Business as a catalyst to examining your own life and career. Soul Business: A Search for God at Work in Our Work expresses the roller coaster ride of two professionals who left management positions in corporate America and decided to make it on their own as entrepreneurs. Soul Business explores their journeys of faith and the Twelve Faith-Based Entrepreneurial Qualities that Laura and Paul believe are essential to blending work and spirituality. They write, “We found that working independently in today’s business landscape can be a lonely and frightening experience. Those that make it have faith—not only in themselves, but in something greater than themselves. We learned to follow our own internal compass for direction, rather than somebody else’s barometer of success. We discovered that the business we’re in is soul business.”

Bush Pilot Way

Author : Bill Quirk
Publisher : Publication Consultants
ISBN 13 : 1594333823
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (943 download)

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Download or read book Bush Pilot Way written by Bill Quirk and published by Publication Consultants. This book was released on 2014-01-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Color-illustrated, Bush Pilot Way, focuses on flying small taildragger aircraft and landing them in remote and challenging terrain in wild Alaska. It presents the author's explanation of his aviation journey in Alaska. The journey displays the inspiration of flying in Alaska, defining who are Alaska's modern-day bush pilots, and showing the training necessary to become the best pilot you can be. It also presents the causes for the elevated aircraft accident rate in Alaska and how to avoid such incidences. Bush Pilot Way serves as a primer for training the Alaska bush pilot way. Once a pilot learns how to train according to the book, additional or new training can be carried out, without difficulty, because the pilot has already learned the foundation for training. Bush Pilot Way is a classical training manual because it is written in a contemporary style that is always current. As time goes forward, the strategy for training will remain the same. Fifty-two distinctive narratives comprising the appendix, show general aviation topics and authenticated experiences of a skilled pilot flying Alaska's uninhabited backcountry. The narratives include the inspiration of flying Alaska's coastal mountains, glaciers, and fjords; flying and landing in Alaska's backcountry in winter on skis and in summer on Bushwheels; flying wildlife surveys and observing rare wildlife encounters.

Flying the Alaska Wild

Author : Mort D. Mason
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN 13 : 9780896585898
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book Flying the Alaska Wild written by Mort D. Mason and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine flying through wildly unpredictable weather conditions and over the unforgiving terrain of the Big Empty, with only yourself to rely on in life and death situations. This type of true grit adventure was a common occurrence for Alaska bush pilot Mort Mason, who encountered numerous white-knuckle situations while honing his skill--and his luck--in a profession that only a handful of pilots have had the stamina to endure. Flying the Alaska Wild is a heart-pounding, edge-of-the-chair collection of fascinating stories about the rough-and-tumble life of an Alaska bush pilot--straight from the pilot’s seat. Recounting thirty years of adventures, skilled storyteller Mason presents tales of his own experiences, and also tells the legendary stories of other old-time bush pilots.

The Alaska Bush Pilot Chronicles

Author : Mort Mason
Publisher : Voyageur Press
ISBN 13 : 1616731419
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book The Alaska Bush Pilot Chronicles written by Mort Mason and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers of Flying the Alaska Wild marveled at Mort Mason’s true tales of braving the elements at the extremes in a Piper Super Cub. But the bush pilot, adventurer, and raconteur was just beginning, and in this book he revisits his most memorable moments of flying by the seat of his pants through blizzards and white-outs, on assignments at times hazardous and sometimes simply whacky, always with a sense of humor and due respect for the limitless wilds of Alaska beneath his wings. The world of a bush pilot really is the final frontier, and for thirty years Mort Mason was there, clocking enough heart-stopping miles to make most life-stories utterly incredible. In The Alaska Bush Pilot Chronicles Mason recounts more of his unlikely adventures in the face of Alaska’s unforgiving weather and terrain. His stories gives readers the rare chance to experience the disappearing thrills and challenges of meeting the American frontier on its own unyielding terms.

My Year as an Alaskan Bush Pilot

Author : Robert M. Brantner
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781465333698
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book My Year as an Alaskan Bush Pilot written by Robert M. Brantner and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-09-08 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time.

A Vivid Memoir From An Alaska Bush Pilot

Author : Foster Kiepert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book A Vivid Memoir From An Alaska Bush Pilot written by Foster Kiepert and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Pilot Novel is a remarkable story of the courage and dedication of a push pilot! Arriving in Alaska, the author began his job in Cantwell, where he ferried mining equipment and supplies from the railroad to the placer mining operation. On many trips, he had to make use of "painfully short" landing fields, with one measuring less than 700 feet. He spent one year in Cantwell, learning much about flying in Alaska. The author's next job was even more challenging. He was the first pilot to fly a winter air mail route from Anchorage to Bristol Bay, flying for McGee Airways. Until 1935, mail to remote villages had been delivered by dog team.... With a dozen friends, he started Bering Sea Airways. He was chief - and only - pilot for the small outfit, flying a brand new Waco he purchased in Seattle. He describes the thrills and horrors of flying without benefit of radio, weather reports, or flight instruments, relying on his knowledge of landmarks and the lay of the land. Often the villages were hard to spot because they were so covered with drifting snow. He encountered the famous "woolies" of the Aleutians - winds he claimed, that rivaled small tornadoes - which were a danger to his small plane even if it was grounded, when "they would hit us with a bang and lift us off the ground and drop us with a thud"... The author was one of the first pilots in Alaska to install radio equipment on his plane. The radio came in handy the first time he had it along - before it had even been installed - when he was able to radio for help after his plane went down on an island lake in Prince William Sound. Those interested in aviation history and the challenges faced by native and early settlers in Alaska will find this book extremely useful and enjoyable reading.

Arctic Bush Pilot

Author : James Anderson
Publisher : Epicenter Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945397830
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book Arctic Bush Pilot written by James Anderson and published by Epicenter Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Backed by Wien Airlines, former Navy combat pilot "Andy" Anderson pioneered post-World War II bush service to Alaska's vast Koyokuk River region serving miners, Natives, sportsmen, geologists, adventurers, and assorted bush rats. He flew mining equipment, gold, live wolves and sled dogs, you name it -- anything needed for life in the bush. He sweated out dozens of dangerous medical-emergency flights, "always at night and in terrible storms." Illustrated with 50 historical photos and co-authored by one of Alaska's most popular writers, ARCTIC BUSH PILOT is an exciting and sometimes nostalgic account of a pioneer pilot and his special place in Alaska aviation history.

My Year As an Alaskan Bush Pilot

Author : Robert Brantner
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1413406394
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book My Year As an Alaskan Bush Pilot written by Robert Brantner and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nine Lives of an Alaska Bush Pilot

Author : Ken Eichner
Publisher : Taylor Press
ISBN 13 : 9780966251715
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Nine Lives of an Alaska Bush Pilot written by Ken Eichner and published by Taylor Press. This book was released on 2002-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn to Alaska in 1938, Ken Eichner became one of Alaska's best-known rescue pilots, famous for taking a helicopter wherever it needed to go to save lives-often at the risk of his own.

Jorgy

Author : Holger Jorgensen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780974922157
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book Jorgy written by Holger Jorgensen and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jorgy" Jorgensen is a legendary Alaska Native bush pilot, but his life is much more than a great flying story. He was raised by his Inupiat Eskimo mother and his Norwegian gold-miner father in a tiny mining camp in interior Alaska. After his father's death during the Depression, when Jorgy was only seven, they lived a subsistence lifestyle: Jorgy worked in the gold mines, ran a trap line, and mushed dogs. He served in Mukluk Marston's Alaska Territorial Guard and was a sergeant by the age of 17. After Pearl Harbor, he became Sig Wien's fire potter and gas boy, and learned to fly. He operated a dragline in the summer, he was a boxing champion, and he singlehandedly desegregated Nome's movie theater. His flying career was equally varied: he flew all across Alaska, from the T-3 ice island delivering scientific equipment and supplies, to delivering cargoes of fresh fish in King Salmon, to moving reindeer from Hagemeister Island; he flew in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, the Far East, Canada. He flew from 1943 to 2001, logging more than 35,000 hours of flight time, with only one--minor--accident. Telling his extraordinary life story in spare, no-fuss fashion, this book allows a vivid glimpse into a tulmultuous and exciting period in aviation from the point of view of one of Alaska's early Native bush pilots.

Bush Pilots of Alaska

Author : Kim Heacox
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 9781558680128
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Bush Pilots of Alaska written by Kim Heacox and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a deep breath, buckle your seat belt, and turn the pages of "Bush Pilots of Alaska". Each page is a vicarious thrill, each photo a window into the way Alaskans get around to live, work, and play.

Alaska's Bush Pilots

Author : Rob Stapleton with the Alaska Aviation Museum
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467131830
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Book Synopsis Alaska's Bush Pilots by : Rob Stapleton with the Alaska Aviation Museum

Download or read book Alaska's Bush Pilots written by Rob Stapleton with the Alaska Aviation Museum and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling ride alongside the daredevil aviators who first braved the unknown of Alaska's wilderness. Bush pilots are known as rough, tough, resourceful people who fly their aircraft into tight spots in the worst of weather. Alaska's bush pilots are all of that and more. Acting as pioneers in a land with 43,000 miles of coastline and North America's largest mountains, Alaska's bush pilots were and are visionaries of a lifestyle of freedom. Flying came late to Alaska but caught on quickly. The first flight was made over a three-day exhibition at Fairbanks, July 3-5, 1913. James Martin first flew that aircraft, owned by him and his wife, Lilly, and investors Arthur Williams and R.S. McDonald. Ever since, Alaskan bush pilots have found that they were calculators of their own fate, flying in fragile aircraft over vast stretches of tundra or through towering mountain passes. This book examines the pioneer aviators and the aircraft types such as the Stearman, Stinson, and Lockheed, many of which were tested and crashed in the far north regions of Alaska.

How to Become an Alaska Bush Pilot

Author : Wayne Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book How to Become an Alaska Bush Pilot written by Wayne Hall and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Last Bush Pilots

Author : Eric Auxier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781480279889
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book The Last Bush Pilots written by Eric Auxier and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TOP 100 FINALIST-AMAZON BREAKTHROUGH NOVEL AWARDS!"You won't want to put down THE LAST BUSH PILOTS while the midnight sun still shines."-Airways MagazineKINDLE EDITION: http://goo.gl/fRv9t--------"MAYDAY, MADAY! I'M GOING DOWN, I'M GOING D-"So begins the literary thrill ride that is "The Last Bush Pilots."Author, airline Captain and popular blogger Eric Auxier brings his former bush flying to life in his second novel, "The Last Bush Pilots."Two young pilots, Daniel "DC" Alva and Allen David Foley, take on the world's most dangerous flying: the Alaska bush. But Mother Nature-and a sexy Native Alaskan-stand in their way.Southeast Alaska Seaplanes, Juneau. Retired airline Captain Dusty Tucker pilots a renegade band of flying misfits. Meet legendary bush pilot Jake "Crash" Whitakker, equally adept at landing planes and ladies-and "crashin' 'em" as well; prankster pilot Ralph Olaphsen, who once set an extinct volcano ablaze on April Fool's Day; and no-nonsense Check Airman Holly Innes, trying to cut a respectable niche in the notoriously macho bush pilot world-while escaping a dangerous past.Amid Alaska's volatile skies, DC and Allen face escalating challenges in and out of the cockpit. As the two "cheechackos," or greenhorns, learn the ropes, they are also roped into Crash and Ralph's hare-brained scheme, "Operation Dirty Harry." Under the suspicious nose of Draconian FAA Inspector Frederick Bruner, the pilots hatch a plot to hijack and rescue a planeload of orphaned bear cubs. Moreover, mischievous Tlingit Indian Tonya Hunter, as wild and unpredictable as the land in which she lives, plays the two lovestruck cheechackos against each other.But the true villain of the story is Mother Nature herself. Alaska's notoriously fickle weather and rugged terrain take on a life of its own. Can the two cheechackos survive Her relentless onslaught and launch their fledgeling airline careers? "Eric Auxier is the next Tom Clancy of Aviation." -Tawni Waters, Author, "Beauty of the Broken," "Siren Song," Grand Prize Recipient - "Best Travel Writers of 2010.""With over 12,000 hours of Alaskan bush flying, reading 'The Last Bush Pilots' was like looking in a mirror. Nice work, Eric." -CloudDancer, Author, "CloudDancer's Alaskan Chronicles" "Eric paints a picture of flying with words that are every bit as beautiful and moving as anything ever drawn or photographed. " -Aviationguy.com"I flew through The Last Bush Pilots in one sitting, keeping my seatbelt securely fastened. A fast-paced tale, thoroughly enjoyed."-John Wegg, Editor Airways Magazine Visit www.lastbushpilots.com to view the 30-second trailer!

Alaska's Bush Planes

Author : Ned Rozell
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 0882409549
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Alaska's Bush Planes written by Ned Rozell and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The passion for flight has seized Alaska flyers—and those who yearn to fly to the Last Frontier—since 1913, when the first biplane arrived in crates via steamship and paddle-wheeler. In the decades to follow, Alaska’s skies buzzed with aircraft—some brand-new, others patched together, and still others lovingly restored to their original beauty. Alaska’s Bush Planes offers a brief history of flight in Alaska, then transports the reader on a visual journey with favorite aircraft, some of which have served for decades. It’s a perfect book for the pilot—or the pilot wannabe—who dreams of flying in the Northland.

Wager with the Wind

Author : James Greiner
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1429997524
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Wager with the Wind written by James Greiner and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2011-08-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don Sheldon has been called 'Alaska's bush pilot among bush pilots', but he was also just one man in a fragile airplane who, in the end, was solely responsible for each mission he flew, be it a high-risk landing to the rescue of others from certain death in the mountains of Alaska or the routine delivery of supplies to a lonely homesteader. Read James Greiner's Wager with the Wind to learn how a hero was born, and also how he made his courageous journey to the unknown skies of dealing with cancer.

Winging It

Author : D. Ramati
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781521098479
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book Winging It written by D. Ramati and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear reader: This book has no chapter headings and *** is used for logical breaks in the conversations. This story is a flow of consciousness from a man, who started out as an auto mechanic, realized his dream of being a Pilot Captain, grew old (as we all do), and searched for meaning in his life.This is his story as told to me over the years. My former name was Tim before I pulled up stakes and immigrated to Israel where I translated my names into Hebrew (David Ramati being the translation of Tim Bratvold) so he refers to me in here as Tim. Donald is part big bother and surrogate father. There is 12 years between us and he never had much to do with me until I was in my early teens when he became my hunting, fishing and safari buddy, philosophy lecturer, and an all-around interesting part of my life. This continued until I joined the USMC and left for Vietnam. My mother was shot to death while I was there in-country and, little by little, we drifted apart. Some of this was because of our mutual grief, and the certainty that an epoch had ended. Donald went on to become a professional pilot and moved to Alaska with his family, and I drifted until I built a family of my own and moved to Israel...but that is another story. We did keep in contact over the years by snail mail, and with the advent of the internet and skype, our communications improved a thousand-fold. I could have called it an autobiography, but the word 'biography' is better suited since it is really a story of his journeys from which he returns, like Ulysses, an old man with memories of former glories. His spirit exemplifies the story of one man's search for a dream, a dream only possible in the America of his times. I have been fortunate to share a part of his life and his story: