And out of the clear blue (check that, foggy and gray) of Alaska's Ketchikan beautiful Sky comes a visitor flying DHC2 Mk3 Beaver in the bright blue and white company colors of St. Paul Airlines. Link HERE The brightly colored plane taxi's up to the Misty's Place ramp and out of the cockpit steps Yoland Grosjean, the CEO and the SPA's Bush and Special Operations manager. (He also runs the Fleet Department and we are in negotiation for that blue and white plane! I'm trying to get him to fly back in a Misty Beaver!)
After a couple of libations at Misty's Place Yoland and I began discussing some ideas of sharing websites and information. Yoland told me St. Paul Airlines provides worldwide service. Whether you're looking to take a hop from Duluth down to Rochester, Miami to San Francisco or London to Berlin (or if you need to go to Abu Dhabi or Bogota), St. Paul Airlines will take you where you need to go. He is looking at various routes in Alaska for the bush pilots at SPA.
SPA also has a Special Operations division with bush & VFR flights, charters, freight & cargo, seaplane or helicopter sections, round the World, Trans-American and Trans-European tours plus a lot of new exciting flying challenges. Yoland asked if we would like to share some of our flight plans and scenery locations with the SPA pilots so they can also enjoy, not only the rest of the world, but our special niche in it ... Bush Alaska! I told him we have a "few" (over 750 flight plans, over a hundred Trip Tickets, Dispatches and Missions and 700+ scenery locations to use ... all ready-to-use and we enjoy sharing them all).
Yoland says that in addition to being the friendliest Virtual Airline on the internet, they have members with literally thousands of hours of combined simulator and real-world flight time. Their roster includes a retired DC-9 airline pilot, military pilots and private pilots. Yoland himself is a former real World bush pilot in East Africa (1968 to 1971 - Cessna 172, 172 L and 177 Cardinal). He has been a fan of RTMM for some time and thought it was time to drop by for a visit.
RTMM has been "introduced" to SPA pilots with
this link. We will be announcing SPA in the NOTAMs momentarily. We hope their pilots will be joining us soon on the forum, we look forward to meeting them.
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