Bob Bates

What is your name?
Bob Bates
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What is your occupation?
Seaplane pilot

What is your home airport? 
CAM9

What year did you start flying?
1969 I became a commercial pilot, then instructor and started my first job in 1971.

Where did you learn to fly?
Victoria Flying Club

Why did you start flying?
Life long desire from preschool age.

What airplane did you learn to fly in?
Cessna 150

What airplane do you fly now?
Beaver for 30 years and many others before that.

What is your favorite kind of flying or place to fly to?
Where I am now and anywhere in BC.

In a few words describe what the BCGA is to you:
Hopefully a place to get to know other members of our great aviation community and occasionally mentor inexperienced pilots 

Do you have a business or work at a business that you would like other members to know about:
Seair Seaplanes