Integrated if you can get into one of the subsidized courses, hometown flight school if you can’t.

The whole forum frequently get mads that a job listing calls for decent reading comprehension, but also this thread happens.

Does that program still exist now? If so, will it go on for much longer?

CpnCrunch wrote: ↑

Mon May 04, 2020 11:44 am

jakeandelwood wrote: ↑

Mon May 04, 2020 11:33 am

BD-5... small and fast

I like fast, but not when it has a 50% chance of killing me

Just be better than 50% of your peers.

There is still an inherent higher operational risk to military operations. The Acceptable Level of Safety definition is different than you’d find in civil aviation and some of the operational maneuvers military aircraft do routinely would not be acceptable from civilian operators. I would have thou...

Am I missing something? Yes, there is no requirement to navigate solely on airways here. I’ve done long IFR legs off airways without GPS (on the way to the shop to get one installed) by figuring out reception range at my planned altitude and just hopscotching direct between convenient VORs. I hear ...

One of the light technologies, I think it was LED, doesn’t appear in night vision goggles so I guess increased risk of collision with a coast guard helicopter if you’re running drugs. Also LED lights run cool so they won’t melt off ice that forms on them.

jakeandelwood wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 26, 2020 6:40 pm

Classic aviation job ad, 9 paragraphs long and not one single detail about the job.

Doesn’t really inspire confidence in the folks running the place, does it?

Well, at least us quibbling here all have good positions to eventually go back to, in whatever incarnation they may be. I feel terrible for the guys in places they don't want to be I feel worse for the guys who would have been in cancelled groundschools. In a lot of cases they quit their old jobs a...

FICU wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 21, 2020 7:13 pm

The more concerning thing is that China is profiting off of their viral pandemic

Yes, the place that has the population density and general disregard for safety is both a breeding place for communicable disease AND a powerhouse of cheap production. Who’d have thought?

FL-280 wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 17, 2020 8:00 am

30 people are on board a 320

Thirty??!! That was a month ago. Try seven for the flight I was on. Unless she’s all drugs below deck I would think AC is running at a tremendous loss.

Depending on the airplane and failure mode, manipulating the throttle can also make your situation irreversibly worse. A friend of mine was in a spot once where he could close the throttle more but not open it. In that situation it’s probably better to discover that at 60% power than at 25%, you know?

Someone once said that even if you get into debt during the flat pay it’s just another loan for your own future, like you might have done for school.

Some employers will care, some won’t. There’s no reliable way to predict who’s who without knowing them. Once established within a company the pilot with diverse experience and a history of giving a damn will usually excel over the average... if they want to.

It's extremely unlikely that you'd be permitted to do your ab initio training in an experimental aircraft. There is no Experimental-Training category. But you could do your ab-initio training in an Amateur-Built aircraft. Or, less condescendingly, Canada and the United States have very different de...

DH82EH wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 07, 2020 7:03 pm

A few days ago I saw a C-150, a Husky on amphibs and a Cherokee all do low passes down the runway at YYZ.
Gives you an idea of how busy the airspace isn't.

So... contest to find the dumbest thing we can do a touch and go with in YYZ?

Tealcowboy wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 07, 2020 6:41 am

Wow, you are literally an idiot.

It’s like the haiku from hell.

It's CAP GEN as in General. Not Jen as in ex girlfriend Jen Hang on, some of us may also want handy tips on seeing how Jen has changed since we saw her last. Wow, I didnt know that this thread was filled with laid off Georgian pilots. Really living up to the stereotype with your dumbassery ey fella...

Fly safe: fly naked.

FighterPilot wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 27, 2020 12:17 pm

It's CAP GEN as in General. Not Jen as in ex girlfriend Jen

Hang on, some of us may also want handy tips on seeing how Jen has changed since we saw her last.

gtappl wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 25, 2020 8:16 pm

Now that the shit has entirely hit the fan, is zero to jazz/porter/encore 10 years the new norm?

Right this instant zero to Jazz/Porter/Encore is never. The answer will almost certainly be different by the time someone’s commercial/multi/IFR training is finished.

Please oh please tell me you kept a copy of your bond for review. If not, ask the company for a scan or photocopy of the one on file that you signed while hoping they have enough people still on staff to care about doing it in a timely way.

Hah, I barely got paid as an instructor when I went to work!

I’m not expecting any spare time, I plan to be working.

I’m honestly surprised that a takeoff clearance can be issued with the airplane ahead still on the runway.