He just can't help slamming anything Canadian and telling us colonials of his life of poverty and being a superior Brit pilot. 1. Do I slam everything Canadian? 2. I think everyone instructing in Canada can claim a "life of poverty". I realise though that I'm an unwelcome Brit in some people's eyes...

My problem with a thread like this is it has a tendency to form absolutes in a persons mind Agreed. Being sensible is all anyone can ask. Instructors teach forced landings... Considerations should include wind, Sun and slope. A small tailwind while putting a low Sun behind you, or an upslope field ...

It really sounds to me like you need to venture outside the bubble you find yourself in down there in the lower mainland & get out and discover what Canadian Aviation is really all about. I agree... It does get miserable down here sometimes. It's a bright sunny Sunday morning and too quiet for me.....

As I alluded to, the Universities offer more than enough useless degree courses needed to overshadow our piddling little aviation business. In the apartment building where I live I met a pilot who'd gone through the BCIT aviation program, spent twice as much as any CPL self starter would for the lic...

In my memory Quebecois girls were certainly more charming than their Anglo Canadian counterparts... I was in Montreal when the rights of English speaking Canadians (from Britain, Greece, Italy, Spain and many many other countries), were taken away. (I went to Vanier CEGEP!). Under British law that w...

roast beef

Ay up! The French call us 'roast beef', the real French that is, of the English... I'm not sure what they'd call Canadians.

6,500 feet OK, but brake fade perhaps, loss of directional control, there's all kinds of factors that would make me feel a lot more comfortable having the wind reducing the groundspeed rather than increasing it. Then there's minimum climb gradient. Is this factor calculated before departing with a t...

Has anyone successfully fitted an RC Allen 2600 digital attitude indicator (Artificial Horizon) to a Canadian registered aircraft previously approved for the RC Allen mechanical electric gyro?

There's a formula with regard to the increase in energy with small increases of speed. The aircraft might just need another 2,500 feet of takeoff distance, but should a failure occur how much distance will it need to stop? There's balanced field length.... I suppose this might be shorter if one plan...

I was thinking about this last night and it occurred to me that some people spend thousands of dollars to get a degree in 'Political Science'... I always think of this as a rubbish degree for what worth to the nation is thousands of political science graduates? There are a lot of ways to spend money...

One wonders why the moderator moved this to Flight Training?
I would hope we teach people properly!

I learned to fly because I wanted to learn something, to fulfil a dream after so many years of model aeroplanes, and I flew for recreation for many many years. I gravitated to this job, I'd spent so many years doing it for free. I am sad, very very sad that Canadians are losing their passion... Too ...

At that time I flew the club's aircraft regularly and so I literally was allowed to fly one day and did, and not the next because of the six month rule. I suppose I have more trust for my fellow pilots, it's the nature of me. I tend to look at a person's qualifications, their recency, and how the pe...

We have a sixty day rule too but "Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men". In other words nothing is set in stone. So I would not ask a pilot who I know has recency in aircraft elsewhere to do a full checkout or even a few circuits if I know that person is competent. On th...

Rentals really make virtually NO money I agree. I reckon the cost of flying in the Lower Mainland needs to rise $20 - $25 an hour for anyone to recover the cost of initial purchase, maintenance, and ultimate replacement of an aircraft. We rent our aircraft out at the absolute minimum we can charge ...

There's an article in this month's "Plane&Pilot" suggesting the DA20 is the best training aircraft on the market, and in this I agree. I really like the DA20 especially with the 100hp Rotax 912 S. In this aircraft Diamond have a 'certified' aeroplane to compete with the best of the LSAs in the US ma...

You can't really compare the VC-10 in military service to the 707 in civilian service. I can and I did. Some of the RAF Super VC10s are ex commercial airliners! East African Airways! We built the fuel tanks for the air to air refueling system at Weybridge and I had the job of inspecting the first l...

Boeing have a fine history but it is one that has been reputed to be underhanded. I worked for a small company that was in competition with Boeing. Our company was building an SST at the time and this aeroplane was quite successful so Boeing have one in their museum. A previous safe airliner with an...

the current owner decided to park it outside under an overhang type of outdoors hangar, so I do not know if this might have compromised the wood structure under the fabric covering (?) It might have preserved it better! You need to keep the Sun and precipitation off the aeroplane while providing pl...

Skills and competence are difficult to find in most things in Canada and so if you find a genuinely good mechanic you should treasure this person. Another way to do anything is by the "If you want a job done properly, do it yourself" philosophy. Buying a homebuilt aeroplane complies with the do it y...