Author Archives: Roger Jamieson

Working as a full time helicopter pilot. I live near Vancouver but work in the vast wilderness and far away places such as the NWT and northern AB.

Get Back to Work, Ya Bum!

OK, we’ll just blurt it out… Tracey and I got married yesterday. A quick and simple wedding with only her best friend and boyfriend and my best friend and the marriage commissioner. We started planning it a week ago. Now, in true helicopter pilot fashion, I’m off to work today for another 4 week tour. [...]

My New Baby

Everyone, meet Hera, my new 15″ Macbook Pro. After 7 extremely loyal years of service, I have retired my trusty Toshiba Satellite.  While the Toshiba hasn’t completely failed yet, I was encountering error message more frequently, lost the capability to access my SD card slot and was encountering more Windows issues (again).  I could no [...]

Vancouver Night Flight

I’ve been lucky enough to have gone night flying Thursday and Friday nights.  I’ve just about completed my night rating, having about 4 hours left to do. I gotta say, flying over the Vancouver Harbour and downtown at night is pretty spectacular. I brought along my new HD helmet cam to document the trip.  Unfortunately, [...]