bush pilot

bush pilot

Jungle yellow fever

marine helmswoman | ship steersman | maritime pilot | maritime ship pilot

ship pilot controller | ship pilot coordinator | dispatcher of ship pilots | ship pilot dispatcher

flying instructor | pilot trainer | flight instructor | flight simulation instructor

Across Canada this year, we celebrate Billy Bishop's courage of the early morning; our pioneering bush pilots; the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan; the companies that built Hurricanes and Halifaxes; Buzz Beurling over Malta; the 10,000 Canadians who made the ultimate sacrifice in bomber command; Canadian Sabre pilots over the Yalu River; the world's first jet airliner; the ahead-of-its-time Avro Arrow; the Canadarm; our astronauts, including our own space sailor from Westmount—Ville-Marie; modern-day military and civilian aviators; and all the people who have supported those who danced the skies on laughter-silvered wi ...[+++]ngs.

I will read an excerpt from a letter from Gilles Lapierre, president of Aviateurs et pilotes de brousse du Québec:

Those of us who have had the opportunity to get to know bush pilots realize how they can be remarkably entrepreneurial and fiercely independent.

The vast majority of professional Canadian pilots, who work as flight instructors, bush pilots, charter pilots, corporate pilots, agricultural spray pilots, air ambulance pilots, or any other of the many varieties of flying jobs in aviation, have no professional association.