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I’m a fan of de Havilland biplanes and the Hornet Moth is particularly lovely, especially the A-model with its sharply tapered wings. IIRC DH offered a retro fit of the later square-tipped wings (much less prone to tip stall turning final) at no charge, I guess it was too much hassle to get a set of...

Legal/illegal aside, by landing prior to the threshold you’re sticking your neck a long way out if things go poorly. It’s your insurance company's job to look for reasons not to pay out.

Maybe they’re just growing to be marketable as wet lease to a country that has their poop in a group.

If you’re willing to cut the pax requirements there are some fast Jodels and Tailwinds that can be had for cheap as far as airplanes go. If fabric and wood are a no-go then maybe look into a Thorp T-18 or a Midget Mustang II. No Jodel will do 180mph without diving. Midget Mustang = single seat, Mus...

If you’re willing to cut the pax requirements there are some fast Jodels and Tailwinds that can be had for cheap as far as airplanes go. If fabric and wood are a no-go then maybe look into a Thorp T-18 or a Midget Mustang II.

I’ve transported the Moderna vaccine provincially and it’s packed surprisingly small. With the rate it’s entering the country you could probably do the job with a daily run of a mid-size Learjet. I assume then that it’s coming over coincidental to some other flights and nobody is getting rich moving...

Gracias, though to be fair I kind of expected someone with 182 experience to know the rough glide ratio off the cuff. Good on ya I guess for rolling up your sleeves and researching.

At 8,000 feet ASL how close to shore would you want to fly a 182? Deffs would want to stay well within gliding distance , especially at this time of year. Thanks, professor. Allow me to re-phrase: “Approximately how far is a Cessna 182 capable of gliding from a cruise altitude of 8,000 feet above s...

At 8,000 feet ASL how close to shore would you want to fly a 182?

There’s a Fleet Aircraft group on Facebook that’s more about keeping and maintaining them today than it is about their history. Quite a few members own Canucks so I’d start there.

I’ve been spending a lot more time in the garage/workshop and if I could find a way to make that profitable I’d be unstoppable.

I interviewed for my first instructing job with a total whack job. I forget exactly how the interview went but it was unpleasant at best then we hopped in a 152 for the practical portion which I had never heard of any other school doing but whatever, I knew how to fly and how to teach already so it ...

I get the optics of it appearing rushed but humans have done some remarkable things when they have had to. As far as I know vaccine testing goes through three several-month-long phases, however those phases don’t really share anything between them. Usually they’re done sequentially to allow time to...

Some lessons you learn will seem outdated or more in depth than they need to be (most basic navigation comes to mind - “Why bother when I just put it in my GPS?”) but they are often a critical foundation for success in your entire flying career.

The takeaway is, don't look at your heroes too closely. You may not like what you find. I never met the man myself but I know a number of people who did. While it’s fun to retell stories of an accomplished person being a jerk it turns out there may be at least as many stories about him being friend...

Hey mods - can ya throw a date on the title of these year-old accident threads?

redlaser wrote: ↑Mon Dec 14, 2020 3:53 pm The problem that the guys from Kawartha did not take into consideration is that an aircraft built of Cavorite the anti-Gravity material will float away once you exit the airplane,

Duh:

I really hope you were being sarcastic. You can normally chalk it up to me being even dumber than I look but this time around I was being facetious. If there’s no business case for it of course they should suspend service, they are after all a money making organization. Plus if there were to be sub...

Air service to the east coast is rapidly dropping, planes are cheap, there is plenty of qualified laid off staff out there. Why not take advantage of the situation and start your own airline to monopolize this perceived demand?