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ppragman said:
When you live some place that is remote, and people have family all over the region, it's not uncommon for air taxis to offer their employees the chance to pay "cost" to fly the airplane if they need it.

For instance, when I lived in SE, we had the option of renting the airplanes for cost whenever they weren't flying for work - I could rent the Cherokee for like $150/hr if I wanted to go up to HNS or something. I lived in JNU and didn't have family around, but other people did make use of this. One of the guys had to fly to PSG to get his medical, he ended up renting the 172 because it was cheaper than getting a ticket on Alaska
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I gave my parents a private ice field tour in a 207 when they came to visit. ^_^

The key is "if the airplane isn't scheduled."

But it was really, really nice to have.

-Fox
 
Boris Badenov said:
I hadn't really considered this angle, being the only single pilot guy I know who somehow dodged the Van bullet, but they do seem to have rather a poor record. That heartbreaker where the Fedex guy (was it empire? mountain?) had an engine failure at night, landed it in a field, and somehow had the damned horrible bad luck to run in to the ONE TREE in a 50 yard radius springs to mind. Ugh.
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It was actually Baron Aviation. A couple guys at my company knew that pilot pretty well. Terrible luck.
 
Apophis said:
It was actually Baron Aviation. A couple guys at my company knew that pilot pretty well. Terrible luck.
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10 years ago, A check pilot I know lost the engine on a FedEx 208- landed in a field and they hauled it out.
Engine exam detected rebuild part failure, problem solved
 
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