No tag with model name, style # 8501, trimmed with coyote fur. One small burn hole through outer shell only behind top of right shoulder (cigarette size). Several stains, not obvious from a distance, which may come out when it is dry-cleaned this week. Condition - good re aesthetics - perfectly wear...

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We're moving there next month. If you want, email me and I'll forward message to hubby who is abroad at the moment

Used in the high arctic - very warm - down filled. Originally over $600. Price: $250Cdn + shipping

[quote="KenoraPilot"]Since you are all against this company. . .

Hubby and I aren't against it - overall its worked out well for us - but you do need the right personality and attitude to make the overseas rotations work for you

Second marriage to a pilot - I had a job that bored me to tears (it didnt turn out to be what was promised), hubby works overseas half the year or more - No matter how long his rotations home were, they werent enough with me working 9-5. Once we got somewhat financially secure we decided I'd quit my...

Yup, he is. And he's turned down a few other job offers. So there! <LOL>

[quote="Doc"]Hey newpilotwife...hubby still happy?? /quote]

Would partly depend where I would be living and the hours but most likely it would be a 'yes'. Especially since it was one of the top 5 on our Retirement List

Hubby is relatively happy working abroad for VAL - you gotta take the good with the bad

Yes, definitely lack of ethnic food - there are many good Asian restaurants, some excellent Italian - the Greek sucked - I make better baklava and I'm Italian! Finn food is great too. No german, swiss, very few Indian . . . The variety of food equals the variety of radio stations here LOL Lack of et...

My house has been rented for 7 years - first tenant was a co-worker I didn't know - she was a better housekeeper than I was. For the second (and third tenants) am using a property management firm - tenants have been great - repairs are reasonably priced cause the firm deals with a local handyman who...

I'm in Thunder Bay, don't know of anyone with a heated garage. What's wrong with remote starters? When its -20 to -40 I'd rather get into a warm car than sit in the cold and wait for the car to heat up sufficiently so its safe to drive. Heated pool and heated driveways? Please, if you have those, wi...

Don't know about SSM, but it gets COLD here in the winter - Expect -40 day and night for 2 weeks every winter. Just guessing, I'd say SSM wd have more Asians, TBay more First Nation peoples. Very few choices re. ethnic restaurants - the lack of restaurant variety can be depressing... The GREATEST pa...

I guess solar powered planes are way off into the future too much to give a thought to? How about teleportation? LOL

Hubby flew in the Arctic for many years, quite a few years ago. Recently flew to Greenland, one look at the state of the icecap/bergs/whatever, compared to what used to be there, convinced him global warming is a reality. So what if our emissions aren't the cause of it? Reducing them can only help u...

I beg to differ, the centre lane is where you should be driving - left lane for passing, right lane for getting on/off hwy, and with sufficient space between cars, alertness and courtesy, allowing cars to switch lanes wouldn't be a problem. Reminds me of my last trip to TO, when the hwy & drivers we...

The trouble with biofuels is they displace food production. The world grain harvest surplus has been declining consistently over the past two decades and is now almost zero. But it's easier to make third world countries starve than it is to stop Canadians & Americans flying in planes and driving SU...

Letters to the Editor, to Tom Blackwell himself, h*ck, write your own article and submit it for publication - I'd like to see someone (or many) tell the other side... perhaps it's time for some letters to the Editor at the National Post so we can shed some light on the real reasons behind this pilot...

Not a teacher, not a pilot - define 'northerner' - might qualify there, but a transplanted one, previous to meeting hubby

Housing prices go up, then down, same with the stock markets and everything else. And according to Murphy, you'll be hit when you can least afford it... My late husband was in a profession that was always hit first when the economy turned down, we learned to live on one salary and UIC. During the go...

I don't think its kidnapping, afterall I've never heard of a ransom note <LOL>- however, I think you could make a case for forcible confinement. Reduced passenger service and stuffing the passengers in like sardines has made me claustrophic - maybe I better get my pilot's license so at least I can s...

Hubby told me of a few cases of companies he's worked for where the new pilot (new to the company, but experienced) stepped off the plane (as passenger) in a third world country, surveyed the airport while doing a 360, then caught the next plane home. Guess that comes a close second to the guy quitt...

Kinda hard to claim he's unemployed when he's away since his paychecks have UIC, benefits and income tax deducted while you phone the automated EI nuber claiming the lack of employment, he needs to put the US dollars in his dirty socks when he comes back. than file as if he's been unemployed for the...

I'd appreciate contact info re. accountants in Ontario experienced with doing the tax returns of Cdn pilots working overseas - someone who knows about Revenue Canada's Overseas Employment Tax Credit (OETC). Thank you.