flying with Hudson Air
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:25 pmAnyone have any experience with this outfit?
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Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:25 pmPosted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 3:57 pmI have flown with them once. They are fine, but I prefer Talkeetna Air Taxi because they have a couple of bunk houses one can stay out before and after your trip plus a locked storage shed to store your extra stuff while you are on the mountain.
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 5:22 pmI remembered something else; we flew into the Ruth Gorge and wanted to get dropped off on the West Fork below Pk 11,300, and Hudson refused. They would only fly into and out of the Don Sheldon Mountain House. I know TAT would have dropped us off pretty much anywhere we wanted. We flew Hudson because my buddy thought it would be cheaper (it wasn't).
Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 2:48 amWell, there you, an opposing viewpoint.
Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 2:48 amAnother thing to think about is TAT can fly by instruments while the other operations only fly by sight. This proved handy in us getting off the mountain days before others last year. I'd much rather recover for two days in Talk than sit on the runway at basecamp wondering when I might get out. When I go back I'll only use TAT. Cheers!
Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 7:58 pmTAT was able to land us on Root Canal (a shelf on the side of Mooses Tooth in Root Gorge) some years ago. No other flying service had that amazing expertise at that time. Don't know about now, maybe Hudson Air can do it these days as well. Thise free bunk beds at TAT were very handy and when we had to wait for the weather.
Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 3:08 pmDang good to know! More quality competition is better for all of us when we are looking for transport to our favorite glacier playground. Cheers!
peladoboton wrote:thought i'd save this gossip for later, but 'cause i like you guys (you have been to my favorite place on earth)...what the heck.
Hudson just got bought out by none other than the Sheldon family, and their two pilots, Jaques and Dave, both have landed quite a bit on the old Root Canal, and will continue to do so under the new management.
i think some new planes will be coming into the picture as well. i got the chance to meet the new ownership and hear some of their plans, and they are really pushing to keep with the 'no job too small, keep the prices low' theme that Jay and Cliff established over the decades, but they are going to push to have the newer equipment and be more aggressive about the places they will land (like the Tok and the Root Canal).
they kicked ass when i flew with Jay in 2001, and it seems like they are taking the ass-kicking to a new level now.
Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 1:49 ampeladoboton wrote:i got the chance to meet the new ownership and hear some of their plans, and they are really pushing to keep with the 'no job too small, keep the prices low' theme that Jay and Cliff established over the decades, but they are going to push to have the newer equipment and be more aggressive about the places they will land (like the Tok and the Root Canal).
I heard Jay and Cliff both passed away last winter. I was walking around Talkeetna with my old Hudson Air Service T-shirt on and had a lot of comments about it being a collectors item now.
Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 2:44 amFlew out today after 3 days at bc. TAT was they only one flying in not great weather ( I am a pilot) severe IFR and TAT got us out. I'll never fly anyone else! Fwiw, Scott