How Do You Become A Bush Pilot (Real Examples)?
Jay Kelly Jay Kelley has been a bush pilot in Alaska for many years. For 13 years he was flying all through the year and then seasonally for another 20 years. He has flown an air taxi, worked for flyout fishing lodges, for registered guides and for salmon and herring spotting. He has a website flyalaska.com where he details many of his adventures and lists jobs in Alaska. Click for more Mort Mason Mort Mason has also flown as an Alaska bush pilot for 35 years. His advice is that one should get a commercial pilot’s license and must own one’s own plane. Alternatively one can work for an air taxi service, registered guides or a hunting/fishing lodge. He has written two books, ‘Flying the Alaska Wild’ and ‘The Alaska Bush Pilot Chronicles’ and has also been a registered Alaska guide for the 35 years that he was flying.
