Give IB some credit, his dad does work for air canada...

DC-6, Solid proven airframe, tons of range. Needs turbines anti-skid and reverse. {oh yeah and some tv's up front }

Jeremy, whats the whole story here, how is it Buffalo's most senior rampie gets laid off? I mean you had all your training done and were ready for your ride, thats a considerable investment. Did they lay off everyone or what?

From what i read about hydrogen fueled vehicles their range is also limited, appx 300 km/tank. This due to the low power of hydrogen for a given volume. Also it takes more electricity to extract hydrogen from water than you can get out of the hydrogen fuel. So if the electricity is generated by coal...

I think most rampies in Yellowknife make 30 a year, usually long waits but its enough to pay the bills.

The massive amounts of money to create enough hydrogen fuel stations beg the question, why not use electricity?

I dont' think anyone could deny that changing our ways only when we have no alternative would royally f**k up everyones economies. Nor could anyone argue that the world isn't over populated. Infrastructure is definately the answer, government has to have some vision, north america is politically lac...

I think most people are getting ready for a really slow ski season. Hard to explore/develop resources when no one will lend you money...

Hijack

Anyone hear if cdn north lost their east coast charter work to enerjet?

Looking for pictures of a C-46 wreck close to Hall Beach by Scarpa Lake, Nunavut. Anyone?

No one is immune from making mistakes.

I wish I was arrogant enough to say that nothing bad will ever happen while i'm in control of an aircraft, being in a deluded world such as that would be wonderfully simple, as would be the person making such a statement.

Only 12,000 people have signed the petition to remove the system access fee. That fee is a blatant cash grab. If you agree don't just read the posts, SIGN THE PETITION!

The 200 feet about the ocean thing is for ocean mapping, hard to patrol that low....

The gear horn on some planes won't go off until you pull the power off in the flair, i believe the baron was below 17 inches or so. Not really effective as a safety device but at 17 inches in the baron with no gear you would be cooking right along.

This could use a thread of its own, Whats the all time best Tanker Base movie?

Good old playing poker and watching porn, that never gets old!

A Cathay employee once told me that for them to land with an 'extra' ton of fuel, on a long trans oceanic flight, they would have to depart with 3 'extra' tons of fuel. Not sure how accurate that is (we were in a bar during the discussion...).

I was told there is a sign near Baker marking the geographical center of Canada, someone else might know exactly where it is.

No one is mentioning the Telex 50g, thats the one i hear a lot of good things about their performance and reliability.

Anyone drive the Yukon part of the Canol Trail? I might like to check that out in the fall.

I kept getting those collection letters and just ignored them, then when I got my tax return there was a debit for 110.00 So if you ignore them long enough eventually they'll just do what they used to with dead beat pilots like me

So is this proof the S.M.S. System is working? LOL this whole industry is a joke, i think i'll go drive a truck.

It was my understanding that you have until the first day of the 25th month to meet all of the requirements, as well as have your ATPL signed off by transport. In any other circumstance you must rewrite the exams. For the iatra, obtain a ppc on an aircraft requiring an iatra, or rewrite.

They were having a heated discussion about warm beer, its obvious isn't it? (glad everyone is okay)

I thought it was four years before you had to rewrite the INRAT