I’m looking at a project that hasn’t flown in about 45 years and its entry in the historical registry says “Old Flight Permit - Private Aircraft.” I’m not super familiar with current or obsolete bases for registration so what’s that mean? Did the terminology change or is this thing just sort of orph...

It was sitting on 15L the other day with the tug disconnected so I assume they were doing or at least attempting engine runs. I wonder who’s doing the work on it.

Don’t worry about where you’ll be for schooling. Yes, the time spent will represent a significant percentage of your lifespan by the time you graduate but as the years go by that percentage diminishes. I once found myself in a similar position to yours and what I did was talk to as many people as I ...

US market is about to boom, they just passed no tax on tips and no tax on overtime in the house and senate. 50c CADUSD by 2026! It’s funny because that’s probably really to keep bribes off the books. Last year it was established in the US that it’s allowable to tip politicians and judges as thanks ...

I’d assumed an ‘Express’ decal was a way cheaper alternative to repainting a whole fleet but I’ve also heard speculation that the first 737 to be branded as Rouge would trigger the switchover in types per the contract. The cynic in me says that the whole Rouge brand will be abolished so that none of...

WestJet has the longest narrowbody upgrades in the world. That puts a lot of people off. If you’re in Vancouver you’ll be waiting 15-20 years for a left seat with current projections. While I don’t disagree with the data used to make that projection, it’s such a long timeline that with the volatili...

rookiepilot wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2025 7:43 pm

digits_ wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2025 7:30 pm Oh god. Why. Monopoly on Northern travel is getting more and more real.

Start an airline. I’m sure its easy.

…and if you’re successful you can sell to EIC!

Dude asks a very simple and valid question, directed toward WJ pilots Right? I’d just assumed the context of it was whether WJ compared to AC’s practice of sometimes forcing new hires onto a fleet that they’re already typed on. With WJ’s much less diverse fleets I’d assumed the answer was no but I ...

1) Why do CAP Advisory visibilities / approach bans exist? Like I get that I have to take the value from the approach plate, and depending on whether I'm commercial, GA, Ops spec, planning, planning alternate, or actually landing, apply one of fifty different adjustements to that value, but, like, ...

“Trapped on a frozen Canadian island”

Settle down Gilligan, Newfoundland is bigger than a lot of countries.

Who was it that was smart enough to just make notam a word instead of an acronym? Was it Europe?

goldeneagle wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 4:48 pm But have no fear, after much investigation, they will find that there was a female controller employed there

Fox is already reporting a female Blackhawk pilot so you’re not far off the mark.

I can’t wait for $14 ($20 CAD) cartons of eggs. I’ll trade cheap gas for expensive eggs any day. Why would the cost of gas go down? Shell/Esso/whoever already know you’re reliably paying about a buck sixty a litre right now. Do you think that someone who makes those pricing decisions likes you?

digits_ wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 8:09 am - One state only joining the US

Everyone keeps saying state but ask Puerto Rico how that’s going for them.

This all assumes we would be seen as equals.

yycflyguy wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2025 11:36 am The "logic" was that the profit share was an unknown certainty and the guaranteed pay raises accounted for the occasional profit share.

I’m for it. Pay me today on a negotiated scale rather than maybe a bonus once a year based on conditions someone else controls.

My company uses AAL for checklist altitudes - I thought this was fairly standard. I’d expected the same but my company does ASL with a sort of expectation to use some sense. I figure the ten ups have some O2 reg stuff in them so they are ASL like the regs, while the ten downs trigger securing the c...

“I’ll tell you what I’d do…”

They’ve been intentionally quiet about schedule and I think two or three times now the Philippine Mars has shown why. It’s an awful lot longer ferry flight than they did to hop the Hawaii Mars over to Victoria.

pelmet wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2025 5:43 am Has the last Mars now flown down to Pima?

Last I heard after a couple unsuccessful attempts they put an engine off the Hawaii Mars on it and ferried it back to Sproat Lake for a bunch more work including possibly other engine swaps.

How many medevacs are as a result of kids with cancer? I did lower priority patient transfer for eleven years. I didn’t see a lot of kids with cancer but I saw plenty of emergency bypasses, high speed organ transfer, critical neonates, people who were in some awful accidents and generally patients ...

if the ASL says it’s legal then it’s legal :). In some situations it might be safer to use it. Please elaborate in which situation it would be safer to ignore the fact that a safety team at an airport already assessed the glide path and obstacle clearances and decided to move the threshold forward ...

cdnavater wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 8:16 am How about, don’t accept the job until they give a livable wage, stay where you are until they fix it!

That kind of martyrdom doesn’t work unless 100% of candidates are on board. 100% of candidates will not be on board.

I have been trying for years, even converted my license and applied for the EB-2 NIW and have kept getting denied by the USCIS. I’ve heard this story a bunch. There’s no shortage of AC pilots somewhere in the process to get a US visa but it seems very few are succeeding. Those who have the right to...

Man_in_the_sky wrote: ↑Wed Jan 01, 2025 5:37 pm porter is losing more pilot to AC than the other way around.

So you’re saying they’re hiring?