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We don’t fly that low 600 to 1000 agl. We take pictures with a telephoto lens of anything we need to report on. We are high enough to fly above the multitude of cell towers. There are a few towers that are higher than we fly so have to look out for those. Sometimes the clouds force us to fly...

None of my kids has there license yet, but 2 of them should have. They just seem to have other priorities in life. My 21 year old just needs to take the written and she would be ready for her check ride. Just to busy to study. The pipeline job just fell in my lap, and is a nice thing for me.

I’m a CFI and got the rating so I could teach my kids to fly. We visually inspect petroleum pipelines near Williston North Dakota. We are looking for leaks but mostly take pictures of other excavation that could interfere with the underground pipeline. It pays for the plane and is fun on the...

Couple hundred feet maybe more , as the plane climbed like a rocket.

It has separate mags. Do you work on mags, magman?

The Maule was an M4-220c so it was a tail wheel airplane with 220hp. So it was from low performance to high performance. The Maule was not an easy plane to master. None of my instructors in Missoula could fly it so I got some instruction from the guy I brought it from Then finished up with an...

I currently own a 1968 Cardinal and use it to teach my kids to fly and do pipeline patrol with it. My plane left the factory with a 150 horse but was immediately charged to 180 horse lycoming and fixed pitch prop. It’s a great plane. My kids and I love it.

I did most of my initial flight training in a C152 out of Missoula Montana in the early 90s. I bought a Maule before my private pilot check ride so I finished in that plane. Huge difference.