HEADS UP GUYS! There are a ton of scammer accounts on UA-cam pretending to be the creator of the video. I am not doing any give-away and I am not on telegram. Do not trust any comment that looks like me unless it has a check mark next to the name.
You might just want to add Telagram and Whatsup to the blocked words list for the comment section. That will put their comments into review mode automatically...
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 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.
As a middle-aged guy with a wife, kids, mortgage, 9-5 job and a love of (the idea of) bush flying, this kid is doing it right! If I get a Buddhist-style do-over, I'm going this route! Bravo Bryan!
“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.
In my mid-forties and I'm going for my license this year. Going to do something I love and escape the daily grind of city life. Hopefully, it's never too late.
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!
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.
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!!!
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.
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
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.
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.
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!!
It’s spam, all of UA-cam 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!
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.
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.
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?
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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!
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…✈️✈️🛫
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.
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!!
So rich to see more and more people chasing passion and dreams rather than the traditional money route that we are all being taught to do today! A lot of challenges going that route but at the end of the day that smile says it all.
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
Awesome video, thanks Trent. Brian is living the dream. I’m housebound now. My legs aren’t working very well anymore and I just finished 44 radiation treatments for prostate cancer. This video is the most inspiring thing I’ve seen in a long time.
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.
In the past I have struggled with the question "what do you do for work?" Just lately I've began to feel more comfortable with "I'm an aircraft manufacturer", but it always raises so many followup questions and brings more attention than most normal sutuations can handle. Recently I've fallen back on just saying "I'm a pilot". No, I'm not your typical airline pilot, but I test fly every factory built plane, I'm nearing my Sport CFI cert, and I fly everychance I get. I... am a pilot. Just not a typical one. 😊 Great edit as usual Trent. Thanks for the motivation. 💛
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.
Brilliantly shot, a wonderfully erudite pair. I took my first seaplane ride out of Vancouver last month after completing the inside passage with Hurtigruten. That is a wonderful part of the world that I had never seen. Thanks for giving me another insight into the great wilderness. Said the guy living in crowded southern England 👍🏻👍🏻
When I fell in love with flying this is the kind of flying I dreamed of in elementary school. I loved reading books by Jack London. I dreamed of living somewhere remote, fly fishing and flying bush planes. As I grew older that avenue changed and I flew as a corporate pilot and now as an airline pilot. What I dream of now is the same as Brian. The peace of the woods the fishing and the beauty of flying in the bush. Don’t fall for the mirage of more money and big planes. Keep enjoying life as free as you can.
In 1979 I left instructing to fly a Cessna-185 on floats from an indigenous reserve in Northern Saskatchewan. I had the great privilege of going on to fly the Beaver, Otter, Norseman, Twin Otter, DC-3, and HS-748 throughout the Boreal North and high Arctic. Finally went corporate out of YYZ when it got too hard on my home life. Of all the things I've done, my ten years of flying in northern Canada still seems like the best employment choice I've ever made. Never got rich, always made a good living.
Beautiful, man. So great to see a young man wise enough to know that there is much more to life than chasing the dollar. He'll be all the more rich for it.
Your new friend Brian gives me hope for the world's future. He's young with his whole life in front of him. He could be flying for some airline, probably making way more money with a lot less effort, while never swatting a mosquito. He's willing to work his ass off to do something he loves, and at great benefit to us all. I wish I had chosen that career path!
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!!
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 :)
Brian! Can I marry you?? You are literally living my dream and this is exactly what I am aiming for although everyone is pushing me down the airline path! What you are doing is the real joy of flying!
I think sometimes people are so focussed on their goals of flying and making money doing so they forget to stop look around and enjoy the jobs on the way. Or to even look at a path not usually taken, Brian has picked a great way to get to enjoy what he does. And honestly I do not think you can ask for better scenery to get to look at!
FANTASTIC "departure" Trent....this was super cool. Worse, the STRUGGLE financially for low time commercial guys is VERY real. For decades. ALL PILOTS pay their dues....bigtime. #Kudos
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.
DeHavilland Beaver is my favorite aircraft. What opened up northern Canada. Flew with a young lad in Parry Sound. Went on a float plane ride in a 185. He was young and would fly people fishing or hunt in a Beaver out of Thunder Bay. Serial #5. Asked him about commercial being of interest. He said no! I don't blame him.
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.
I grew up around Bush planes with my parents business, from the Beaver to the otter then turbo otters and turbo beavers. Love the sound of a radial engine over the turbine still!
Scenery is unbelievably beautiful. Have to say though, that type of flying is inherently more dangerous, not as dangerous as ag pilots, but dayuum dangerous. Thanks for sharing Trent.
Its like driving a fancy semi truck or bus on the highway from city to city VS. a 6x6 offroad truck in the woods and swamps from and to remote small towns. My wifes uncle flew 747 freighters for 20 years. He said at one point he felt just like that. A semi truck driver on the road.
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HEADS UP GUYS! There are a ton of scammer accounts on UA-cam pretending to be the creator of the video. I am not doing any give-away and I am not on telegram. Do not trust any comment that looks like me unless it has a check mark next to the name.
You might just want to add Telagram and Whatsup to the blocked words list for the comment section. That will put their comments into review mode automatically...
I report the twats so that UA-cam deletes their accounts.
And here I thought I was special and Trent Palmer picked me out of everybody to get free stuff. Jeepers, what a let down. 😄
@@bighaasfly Same here, I won his boat 🤣🤣
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.
As a middle-aged guy with a wife, kids, mortgage, 9-5 job and a love of (the idea of) bush flying, this kid is doing it right! If I get a Buddhist-style do-over, I'm going this route! Bravo Bryan!
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!
An old soul in a 24 year old body. That as like watching an interview of a kid who grew up in the 1930s or something. Thank you for sharing!
“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.
Trent, absolutely amazing content. One of my favorite videos of yours to date. ( honestly enjoy all your content)
In my mid-forties and I'm going for my license this year. Going to do something I love and escape the daily grind of city life. Hopefully, it's never too late.
Update please. How’s it going?
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!
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.
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!!!
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 🙂
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.
Bryan is a beauty! Grateful for our time up there meeting some rad pilots and exploring some unreal terrain
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
There are things that spark passion,
There is passion that is a flame,
And there is a bonfire in my heart.
Fantastic video Trent. This was good storytelling and cinematography. Brian’s demeanor reminds me of Jim Tweeto.
Serious Flying Wild Alaska vibes here ❤️
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.
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.
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!!
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 UA-cam 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!
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.
Love this little vignette! Beautifully shot and captivating.
Flying a Beaver, what a lucky guy!
Trent, that was really good and I hope you do more like this.
Its flying related. It's cool 👍
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.
You are one of the best content creators on UA-cam and Bryan will have this phenomenal video forever. Great job!
I could feel my shoulders when he mentioned the words…empty the floats !
Your BEST VIDEO EVER TRENT...keep it up my pilot brother.
This makes me tear up and question my life in ways you can’t imagine
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?
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.
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!
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!
This was phenomenal. I could absolutely see this extended into a feature length film. The cinematography was beautiful.
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.
One of the best produced videos I have seen in a long time. Fantastic storytelling, Trent.
Well done Trent!
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.
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!
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…✈️✈️🛫
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.
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!!
aspiring pilot who is lost in terms of a career path, recently started working towards my ppl and this is really inspiring
All your videos are great but this one is exceptional. More content like this would not go unnoticed. Keep up the good work sir.
Beautiful video.
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!
So rich to see more and more people chasing passion and dreams rather than the traditional money route that we are all being taught to do today! A lot of challenges going that route but at the end of the day that smile says it all.
This is legit bush piloting. My family had a float plane service for so many years. I love to see and hear the young man keeping the tradition going.
Nice to see a young man with his head screwed on straight. Having lived in BC, I can relate to his story.
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
Awesome video, thanks Trent. Brian is living the dream. I’m housebound now. My legs aren’t working very well anymore and I just finished 44 radiation treatments for prostate cancer. This video is the most inspiring thing I’ve seen in a long time.
Trent is one of the few UA-camrs who can probably film a video digging holes and still make it magic.
Brian is one of the most level headed 24 year old ! He looks happy! Thanks Trent.
Hits a man right in the heart watching this Trent. Nicely captured.
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.
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
BEST VIDEO YET.
The fact that he used the word “pride” talking about a job amazed me!
Good job and wicked video! Thank you!
I can see peace and joy, beyond understanding, in his eyes.
In the past I have struggled with the question "what do you do for work?" Just lately I've began to feel more comfortable with "I'm an aircraft manufacturer", but it always raises so many followup questions and brings more attention than most normal sutuations can handle. Recently I've fallen back on just saying "I'm a pilot". No, I'm not your typical airline pilot, but I test fly every factory built plane, I'm nearing my Sport CFI cert, and I fly everychance I get. I... am a pilot. Just not a typical one. 😊 Great edit as usual Trent. Thanks for the motivation. 💛
I love the how quiet the beavers are until wound up!
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.
I love the sound of a float plane radial idling. The best sound! Brings back childhood memories 🥰
Brilliantly shot, a wonderfully erudite pair.
I took my first seaplane ride out of Vancouver last month after completing the inside passage with Hurtigruten. That is a wonderful part of the world that I had never seen. Thanks for giving me another insight into the great wilderness. Said the guy living in crowded southern England 👍🏻👍🏻
When I fell in love with flying this is the kind of flying I dreamed of in elementary school. I loved reading books by Jack London. I dreamed of living somewhere remote, fly fishing and flying bush planes. As I grew older that avenue changed and I flew as a corporate pilot and now as an airline pilot. What I dream of now is the same as Brian. The peace of the woods the fishing and the beauty of flying in the bush. Don’t fall for the mirage of more money and big planes. Keep enjoying life as free as you can.
In 1979 I left instructing to fly a Cessna-185 on floats from an indigenous reserve in Northern Saskatchewan. I had the great privilege of going on to fly the Beaver, Otter, Norseman, Twin Otter, DC-3, and HS-748 throughout the Boreal North and high Arctic. Finally went corporate out of YYZ when it got too hard on my home life. Of all the things I've done, my ten years of flying in northern Canada still seems like the best employment choice I've ever made. Never got rich, always made a good living.
Beautiful, man. So great to see a young man wise enough to know that there is much more to life than chasing the dollar. He'll be all the more rich for it.
These types of videos are why UA-cam is a treasure. Between letting people know this is possible to making it a nice side gig.....amazing. Thank you.
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!
Trent, that story was a real breath of fresh air. Now that's a pilot and plane!!!!
🌏🇦🇺
This guy was out guide at Spatzi about 5 years ago. Good to see him flying for the lodge now. Best fishing ever at that place.
This is pretty much my dream job. 😍
Content, editing, drone work, interviewing skills hell, even your selection of music are spot on professional!! Thanks Brotherman!
For a pilot that likes the remote outdoors Bryan made the right choice. Nice presentation highlighting this niche segment of aviation.
Your new friend Brian gives me hope for the world's future. He's young with his whole life in front of him. He could be flying for some airline, probably making way more money with a lot less effort, while never swatting a mosquito. He's willing to work his ass off to do something he loves, and at great benefit to us all. I wish I had chosen that career path!
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!!
Right on Brother!! Airlines are the aviation version of the office "Dilberting". You are wise and beyond your years. Fly Safe!!
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 :)
Brian! Can I marry you?? You are literally living my dream and this is exactly what I am aiming for although everyone is pushing me down the airline path! What you are doing is the real joy of flying!
I think sometimes people are so focussed on their goals of flying and making money doing so they forget to stop look around and enjoy the jobs on the way.
Or to even look at a path not usually taken, Brian has picked a great way to get to enjoy what he does.
And honestly I do not think you can ask for better scenery to get to look at!
At 50 and just getting my license...watching this makes me long for a younger, single me :). What a dream!! Great vid!!
Flying,fly fishing and the out doors....I love it...GOD BLESS my friend
FANTASTIC "departure" Trent....this was super cool. Worse, the STRUGGLE financially for low time commercial guys is VERY real. For decades. ALL PILOTS pay their dues....bigtime. #Kudos
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.
DeHavilland Beaver is my favorite aircraft. What opened up northern Canada.
Flew with a young lad in Parry Sound. Went on a float plane ride in a 185. He was young and would fly people fishing or hunt in a Beaver out of Thunder Bay. Serial #5.
Asked him about commercial being of interest. He said no! I don't blame him.
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.
What a beautiful aeroplane and a real slice of aviation heaven in this video.
A certain breed of person. A certain breed of pilot. An excellent breed indeed. Love. Love. Discover.
The calmness in him shows how satisfied or likes or enjoys his work...👍👍👍👍lot to learn from him....
I like when you showcase other pilots Trent. Great job on this video. Thanks Brian.
I grew up around Bush planes with my parents business, from the Beaver to the otter then turbo otters and turbo beavers. Love the sound of a radial engine over the turbine still!
Geez to get to fly a beaver everyday man that would be incredible, this was awesome Trent, thank you for bringing Brian's story to us!
It’s cool watching him prime the Wasp Junior. This is the best content!
I’m usually not a fan of his videos but this one was fantastic. It really brings back memories of flying on Kodiak.
Scenery is unbelievably beautiful. Have to say though, that type of flying is inherently more dangerous, not as dangerous as ag pilots, but dayuum dangerous. Thanks for sharing Trent.
Its like driving a fancy semi truck or bus on the highway from city to city VS. a 6x6 offroad truck in the woods and swamps from and to remote small towns.
My wifes uncle flew 747 freighters for 20 years. He said at one point he felt just like that. A semi truck driver on the road.
Both producer (selecting the subject) and videographer, you are to be commended for such a great video.