Not that anyone cares about facts anymore, this is the internet in 2024 after all, chock full of smarmy armchair experts. Just thought it worth pointing out. That's rich, alluding to an AC statement on an incident as a factual and complete description of what occurred. Ah...no. I was referring to h...

Air Canada PR is hilarious. "Hard landing" a couple years ago. Now a "minor landing gear issue", that everyone else would call a complete failure of the left MLG. Call it what it is, the left main gear failed. Done. Air Canada did not refer to it as a "minor" landing gear issue. That was a previous...

The recording said leading edge flaps trouble. Could this have affected spoilers/speedbrake deployment? No, but an air/ground logic issue which someone mentioned, definitely would. If the system erroneously considered the aircraft airborne you'd have no ground spoilers, greatly increasing ground ro...

8895 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2023 8:57 am The “NHL of airlines” ladies and gentleman

Ahhh don't feel bad.

Maybe you'll let you interview again one day. Not everyone gets into the NHL either.

or...

Ah yes.

Canada.

That bastion of low taxes and sensible government.

Oh did I mention the awesome weather and cheap housing?

Yes, we are so fortunate not to live in the hellhole of...Europe. Or 'Murrica!

I love ME!

Signed, every Canadian stereotype ever.

Israel stopped rubber-stamping visitors' passports many many years ago. Now it has a paper ticket system, and keeps electronic records of your visitor's visa. "Many many?" Actually less than 10 years ago, 2014 rings a bell. Some of us have been expats a bit longer than that. :lol: But irrelevant to...

Could try applying for a 2nd valid passport. I did that successfully in the past for a visa application, and it is not entirely unheard of for similar reasons as this. Used to be quite common for Westerners living in the Middle East to hold two concurrently so they could travel to Israel without fac...

We are living in the Age of Anti-Enlightenment. A race to return to medieval superstition, huddled around smartphones instead of campfires, fearful and latching onto every bizarre theory that helps to explain an increasingly complicated world to tiny lizard brains. It is not the proudest moment in h...

I’m afraid that Entitled Small Businessman is always going to be trumped by Entitled Captain. All you’re doing is frustrating yourself.

There are a-holes in all professions, being one yourself won’t cure all the others.

I have Airtags, they're great but have their limitations, as pointed out they may show where your bag is, but that doesn't necessarily mean you can do anything about it. My last couple transits across the pond I knew my bag had been left behind before we took off. Saved some time at destination, ins...

As mentioned above you can log it. It's instrument time, not IFR time. My Canadian logbook has "actual, hood, sim" columns under instrument time. My previous UK logbook just had instrument time. Just to clarify; the sim is not simulated, it's simulator ground time. As I stated previously, UK and ma...

This is completely true. It is also true that the industry is vastly more than just "Canada".

Also, once reaching certain thresholds of experience, flying skills are most certainly transferable.

If one has to be convinced that this is the career for you - it isn't.

The same people calling the comparison of Canada to totalitarian regimes ridiculous, were the same people clutching their pearls breathlessly referring to the trucker protest as an "invasion", "occupation", and similar. If one is going to call out nonsense it needs to be exposed equally. Lots of dra...

rookiepilot wrote: ↑Sat Jan 29, 2022 6:32 pm Has the insurrection Trudeau is in his bunker waiting for, and promised by Singh will happen, started?

Canada is the laughing stock of the world. Winston Churchill our leaders are not.

It's very simple - land in the Touchdown Zone or Go- around. No ambiguity. Yep. And it's not because of a "dumbing down" or because the Chief Pilot is a big meanie or some other such nonsense alluded to. It's simply due to the fact landing performance data is predicated on landing in the touchdown ...

Pity we can't be like Europe on this continent IMO.Cheap and great coverage over their in my experience. You are correct, Europe is far far better than Canada (not just in mobile, sorry, "cellphone" costs...I digress! :mrgreen: ) But T-Mobile does have plans that have unlimited calling, texting, da...

I've added foreign non-FAA type ratings to my TC license. But I was actively flying at the time. Presented foreign license with said type rating, record of latest check (what they call PPC in Canada but not anywhere else) and logbook evidence of time on type. $30 later and the rating was on my Canad...

Yeah my financial planner is moving my investments to lower risk on Monday. Curious how that is defined. hahah Yeah I had the same thought. Most would take that to mean selling equities and going to cash, but that's FAR riskier in an inflationary environment. Market timing is for suckers. I've been...

Canada's been a socialist haven for ages. They're just stopped pretending anything else anymore. Must suck a bit a bit to be Jagmeet when the Libs out-Commie the NDP hahah! And now Justin and Jag are in bed again for another 2-4 years. Think the money taps were open before now? You haven't seen any...

Canada's been a socialist haven for ages. They're just stopped pretending anything else anymore. Must suck a bit a bit to be Jagmeet when the Libs out-Commie the NDP hahah! And now Justin and Jag are in bed again for another 2-4 years. Think the money taps were open before now? You haven't seen anyt...

Boeing calls the associated automated system Auto Throttle and they're definitely jets. But the actual levers are referred to as Thrust Levers. Go figure.

Auto Thrust is maybe an Airbus term? Dunno.

But it's all semantics really.

I’m not in the industry, but I agree. 2022 = Boom. Get ready for epic gas prices though, too. Yep. Restrict production and transportation of fossil fuels when there's no viable replacement for them, then increase demand exponentially. Don't exactly have to have a doctorate in Economics to know what...

Skill is skill and no amount of finger-wagging can alter that. The only one who really earns the full right to question "is it worth it?" is the one person who bears the fullest consequences of an unsuccessful outcome - the pilot. And no, you wouldn't find me doing that. Easier ways to get thrills. ...

Oh it's shambolic here in Europe as well, I didn't say it isn't. My point was that the demand is insane even with all the restrictions. A huge amount of people are doing whatever it takes to get to their Greek beach holiday or whatever. And forward bookings reflect increasing, not diminishing demand...