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One of the
most unique things about Alaska, is how people travel. The
roads are few, the terrain is wild, and water is everywhere.
Sure, you can travel by boat, but boat rides are slow and
sometimes quite bumpy. So, what's a fast, flexible solution
for effective travel? A solution that can take you out to
the middle of nowhere and back in an hour or two?
Seaplane! And the guys that fly them are the bush pilots of
Alaska.
Almost every
fisherman in Alaska has a wild bush pilot or seaplane story, or
two. Most likely it'll be a nail-biter story, about a plane barely making it over the mountain
pass or something like that. But most
fisherman will also have a life-saver story about seaplanes and
their bush pilots. About how a sick or hurt crewman was flown to the
hospital, just in the nick of time. Or about the important
boat part, flown from town to the boat, and fixing the
problem. And there are many more.
-- Hate 'em or
love 'em, love 'em or hate 'em, seaplanes and their bush pilots
are an important necessity for Alaskan commercial fishermen, and
residents and tourists statewide.
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