I've been flying in the North for 45 years, and have done probably 100 of them in real time - not to mention the ones in sims (for types I flew that had sim training). I'll be happy to see them completely gone from the IFR procedures. 30/30 is a probably good estimate in sims...

In Canada, you are expected to circle AT the minimum altitude with precision (50' tolerance), you cannot go any lower than the minimum altitude for circling, and in a wind, bad vis, and constantly scud-running the bases, judging your turns, staying on the commanded speeds, meanwhile trying to solici...

Love it! Faster, easier, some formatting of the items (compared with the unintelligible cacophony of letters and numbers from before), nice layout, chronological order. Terrific improvement.

NBD to go to a different site for them.

I have! Twice in 22,000 hours (46 years), in Yellowknife.

daedalusx wrote: ↑Sun Aug 18, 2019 3:30 pm A determined person will always find work. Also in a recession, PIC time is king, the 4000hr laided off RJ FO will have a much harder time putting food on the table than the 1500hr Kingair Capt.

I really really wouldn't worry about it.

Agree, 100%

Ahaa! The undying dilemna... To be, or not to be : that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and insults of outrageous fortune, Or to take up up arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing - end them. ... ...what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mor...

Where did they go?...are going? GONE , I hope. They are difficult to fly in poor conditions and maintain tolerances. They require intense crew coordination, often with inexperienced and low-time new co-pilots. They require a certain level of skill which is acquired over a long period of time, and ma...

There must be HUNDREDS of npa's flown every day by 320 (-family) that don't end up in the same predicament. Systematically beating the odds of failure. I am not proposing or pontificating punitive measures for the crew. The preliminary report that John Lee delivered to NATA a year ago alluded to all...

??? They flew the plane into the ground, and it was "systemic failures"??

Get a grip.

All these words and opinions - millions - for an accident that was clearly pilot error. Too hard for the TSB to lay the blame squarely on the crew.

Many thanks, Splash, ChinaFlyer. No I'm not on an interline ticket or reduced rate. Got a pass from one of my buddies but it can't be used when the PNR includes non-AC codeshare sector. So I didn't use it. I was booked originally via ICN with a CX/codeshare connection but there was some problem with...

Just somewhere to crash & burn for 12 hours, then off to Cebu. Can't afford 100$ each way to the city if I can avoid that.

Never been there before.

That is terrific information. Many thanks. I will read and digest later. "Inexpensive" to me is 110 CAD per night (I'll check the HKD conversion later) I had a mate in CX bu he has retired and flies Martin Mars fire bombers now. I'll check around as lots of my younger crew vanished overseas, but I d...

I am going to have a 16-hr layover in Kong Kong next week, and I am wondering if anyone can assist me by directing me to some inexpensive accommodation? Only things I can find are quite expensive...for a retired CP....

I am going to have a 16-hr layover in Kong Kong next week, and I am wondering if anyone can assist me by directing me to some inexpensive accommodation? Only things I can find are quite expensive...for a retired CP!

HiFlyChick wrote: ↑Thu Nov 08, 2018 7:21 pm [quote=Judging from the tire tracks off the end of the runway, it looks like the gear were all down

Sure does look like that, but where is the gear?? It's 8 feet high. They must be sunk into the mud.

In the photographs available, the gear is not visible. Was the gear DOWN? begging the question that how did all 4 get wiped off. There's an aerial pic in this article: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-airport-landing-747-1.4895103 Judging from the tire tracks off the end of the ru...

Doesn't sound like "bad" information to me. Sounds like good information. If flames come out the exhaust (burning cat, burning coat, "burning man"...there won't be any evidence of that after you land, as the exhaust is at the rear of a Q$ engine. Same thing happened to me many tears ago with a Beech...

In the photographs available, the gear is not visible. Was the gear DOWN? begging the question that how did all 4 get wiped off.

You are going to have to give credit where credit is due, and have faith in the Airline's training and monitoring programs. The majors have VERY robust training programs, and their strict adherence to the SOP goes with very high quality CRM and CFIT training. The SOP is also very robust, leaving lit...

I have it on a CD, and listen to it every Christmas. Yes very moving. We have all been there at one time or another....someone else is pulling our strings. And I believe it's a true story.

Cat Driver, ...Obviously you have not flown many different types of airplanes, the DC3 for instance will not tolerate any surface contamination such as frost, frozen snow or ice on the wings from being parked outside. I have 3200 hours on DC3 out of a Yellowknife base, and another 20,800 hours on m...

Ziabatsu, Not sure if you’re being sarcastic or not but it’s attitudes like that why we have planes crash. And there’s no point in having proper de icing facilities for fools who take off in FZRA. Your unsubstantiated statement is an insult to the intelligence, experience, and complex consideration...

"dirty little secret in Canada's North".... The amount of shit on the wing of a plane - and it still climbs and flies just fine - will amaze you if you haven't flown "up North" very much. Did they teach you in surface contamination and airborne icing that " there's no such thing as a little ice "? T...

There are several checks in ANY pressurized aircraft to check that it's pressurizing normally. Most have a check after takeoff in case you took off bleeds-off, then thru 10,000' to see that it IS pressurizing, then in the cruise check to see that the cabin agrees with the controller. And is a Q400 a...