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- Sat Feb 09, 2019 2:58 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Air Tindi Flight Missing
- Replies: 190
- Views: 42841
Re: Air Tindi Flight Missing
If the plane was found at the Northwest end of Marian Lake, as reported on CBC, there is a ridge there, with the highest point on the VNC shown as 971', which is about 400 feet higher than the water. You can't tell by looking at the map but it looks like an escarpment, which one would cross close to...
- Wed Nov 30, 2016 12:23 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Soccer Team Charter Down in Columbia on flight from Bolivia to Medellin
- Replies: 99
- Views: 14589
Re: Soccer Team Charter Down in Columbia on flight from Bolivia to Medellin
The BAe 146 does not have a RAT. Nor, I'm compelled to add, does it have the ability to dump fuel.FAD3C wrote:
Does the 146 have a RAT?
- Fri Nov 07, 2014 8:15 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Would you buy a flying car?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4677
Re: Would you buy a flying car?
I already have a car. What I would like is a plane that transforms into a large, friendly but street-smart robot that can help me solve problems with bullies and get me out of jams.
- Sun Aug 03, 2014 8:09 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: And still, CBSA agents are exempt from security screening
- Replies: 50
- Views: 6510
Re: And still, CBSA agents are exempt from security screenin
Your mistake is that you are equating the larger concept of "Security", with what CATSA does to you when you go through some screening point. That procedure is only a small part of the process and I would suggest a fairly minor one. Just because someone is not subject to a metal detector does not m...
- Sun Aug 03, 2014 1:06 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: And still, CBSA agents are exempt from security screening
- Replies: 50
- Views: 6510
Re: And still, CBSA agents are exempt from security screenin
Good point. I would like to submit however that the issue under discussion should be whether or not CATSA agents should go through security. Quite aside from a discussion about whose job has more merit or whatever, should there be a member of any profession who doesn't have to go through security? Y...
- Sat Aug 02, 2014 1:25 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: First Air cancelling flights, fuel shortage or $$$ shortage?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3665
Re: First Air cancelling flights, fuel shortage or $$$ short
I would be frightened to drive a fuel tanker through a forest fire. No sir, not a job I would like.
- Sat Aug 02, 2014 1:21 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: And still, CBSA agents are exempt from security screening
- Replies: 50
- Views: 6510
Re: And still, CBSA agents are exempt from security screenin
The screeners themselves should be the FIRST to be screened. Every day before work. I can't think of a better way to smuggle stuff into the airport than to get a job like this. The application questionnaire is either a joke, or else they actually are conducting racial profiling in Canada, because it...
- Sat Aug 02, 2014 9:49 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: And still, CBSA agents are exempt from security screening
- Replies: 50
- Views: 6510
Re: And still, CBSA agents are exempt from security screenin
Shamrock104, that is a very serious claim to make and if what you say is true there are some very serious violations of the CARS going on. How many flight? How long were these doors open? What airlines are in question? Is this a complete exaggeration of what actually took place? There are protocols...
- Tue Jul 29, 2014 6:51 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: AvCanada's favorite C-182
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1814
Re: AvCanada's favorite C-182
Get a 1955 or earlier model. By that I mean, get a 180. They're faster, lighter, roomier and have more class.
- Tue Jul 29, 2014 12:07 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Need a paint job?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2692
Re: Need a paint job?
Good to know. Nice to hear about someone who does good work.
- Tue Jul 29, 2014 12:04 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Pilot, air traffic control's heated spat
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2238
Re: Pilot, air traffic control's heated spat
Jeez, what a seeyounexttuesday. He's probably some kind of racist.
- Fri Jul 25, 2014 10:36 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: So You're a Quart Low
- Replies: 64
- Views: 5982
Re: So You're a Quart Low
I check it again because I am overly self-congratulatory. I like to give myself a little pat on the back for remembering to check the oil, and when I pull out that dipstick showing the correct quantity for flight, I can't help giving myself a little "thumbs-up" for having the good sense to detect an...
- Mon Jul 21, 2014 6:04 pm
- Forum: Bush Flying & Specialty Air Service
- Topic: Petition To Save The Mars.
- Replies: 56
- Views: 8125
Re: Petition To Save The Mars.
OK, so the thing with the petition. I kind of think it's a mistake to include the "votes" from the USA and Italy and Spain and Japan or whatever. Not because those people don't have feelings, but because the B.C. Premier isn't going to give a crap about them. It makes it seem as though you are petit...
- Wed Jul 16, 2014 4:41 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Canada to supply decommissioned fighter aircraft to Ukraine
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2953
Re: Canada to supply decommissioned fighter aircraft to Ukra
I was hoping to hear it was "Freedom Fighters" from CFB Mountain View.
- Sun Jul 13, 2014 5:10 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: C-GISM
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4801
Re: C-GISM
Much more damage will be done to the engines if the props dig into the ground in the feathered position vice the fine pitch position. Is that so? Of course: that's because the props are more bendy in fine pitch than they would be in FX, right? I never thought about it before but it makes perfect se...
- Sun Jul 13, 2014 5:05 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Pitts Lands on Highway in Yellowknife
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3788
Re: Pitts Lands on Highway in Yellowknife
That rumour was making the rounds, but as you already know, proved to be incorrect.Illya Kuryakin wrote:DM?
Illya
- Sun Jul 13, 2014 2:24 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Mosquito!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3089
Re: Mosquito!
Sometimes the static restorations preserve more of the historical fabric of the aircraft at the expense of airworthiness. For Mosquitoes in particular, I think when restoring them, the further gone they are, the more appropriate it is to make them airworthy, since that would involve a new airframe m...
- Sun Jul 13, 2014 1:51 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Mosquito!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3089
Re: Mosquito!
Oh man what a beauty the Mosquito is. Some aeroplanes just epitomize "perfection" in their form and their performance. For me the Mosquito is one of them, along with the good old DC-3, Gypsy Moth, a couple of others I'd probably get made fun of for mentioning. Like the original B737 and the DC-9. Ma...
- Sun Jul 13, 2014 1:21 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Cat & Doc
- Replies: 278
- Views: 21735
Re: Cat & Doc
Now, the Supermarine Attacker... has anyone actually seen one? I doubt it, unless they've seen the one remaining one in the Fleet Air Arm museum. One of those neat things you find on Wiki though come from that page: On 23 May 1950, Vickers test pilot Les Colquhoun was flying the first production At...
- Sun Jul 13, 2014 1:13 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Cat & Doc
- Replies: 278
- Views: 21735
Re: Cat & Doc
I was thinking about the "anonymity" issue. Some people take pride in NOT being anonymous, and as a general principle I respect that a great deal. As for myself, I'm genuinely worried that if my boss, who I respect, knew I actually participated in this goat-show forum, he would have less respect for...