Someone else said it ... look at getting an L-39 :

http://www.controller.com/listings/airc ... dlgrp=L-39

Doesn't cost millions at all, at least to purchase ... and you'll have all the fun of a fighter jet ...

They're actually going to field a partially functioning plane! Nice ... and 180 rounds? Really? What's the point ...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... -2019.html

Neither!

"If it don't look good, GO-AROUND. Imagine if the 340 pilot for some reason hit the brakes instead of the gas while the 767 was in the flare? Who knows, everyone lived to tell and learn about it. Makes for a good video though." That's the way I look at it ... The media is making a mountain out of a ...

If you think that dealing with your unhappy membership is a distraction and waste of time, well that tells you everything you need to know about their attitudes, and none of it is good.

Speaking of COPA lobbying, or lack thereof, and the comparison to AOPA ... One thing I'm starting to notice is also that AOPA usually doesn't fight alone ... there's other similarly minded organisation that cooperate with them when appropriate, like NBAA or GAMA or others I'm not thinking of right n...

Like I said, when you control the app, you control the end point, and you can control accuracy regarding the data display. You specifically said NOT like Foreflight. FltPlan Go is more like Foreflight than not ... it's a service with an app, and the publishers control the product end-to-end. Giving ...

Fuel Tax: Not going to happen, focus on where you have a chance of achieving something! Details: Nothing in law requires said fuel tax to be spent on anything in particular. There are other fuels taxed in a similar fashion, and it would be "unfair" to NOT tax aviation fuel, but tax all the others. E...

Agreed with the above re: lobbying. They should be doing 2 things: lobbying, and promotion. In many ways those two come hand in hand anyways. Talk to MPs and MPPs, TC, NavCanada, etc. Promote the role Ga plays in the country/province/etc. In my 6 years in COPA, I've NEVER heard a word of anything of...

Wouldn't have helped, the people AT the AGM are a small minority of voters, with most voters represented by default proxy, I believe? The whole concept of proxies going to someone "by default" is kind of bizarre and rather anti-democratic. That's like saying Harper decides my vote if I abstain from ...

Hilarious, and so true ... Love Louis CK!

The shop in Lachute:

http://www.avion-tech.ca/

There's also a couple of AME's and a paint shop.

Here's one of them:

http://aero-fax.com/nos-services/

It would be nice to have an Avionics shop in eastern ON ... dunno why the last one didn't survive ... I'm headed to Lachute for my 24-month tomorrow if the weather is OK ... I got my last 2 done at Kitchener Aero, and was completely satisfied ... I used the excuse to go for a trip from Ottawa visit ...

"That would've had to be near Smiths Falls."

There's also one that flies out of YND ...

"Nobody is forcing them to pay anything... it's just that will be what is required for a release." That was the point of my post. If someone did something that leaves you with doubts, they you, the AME, should feel free to do whatever work is required to remove said doubt, in order to gain the comfo...

So the short answer (in spirit, not in letter) is no, propeller work (of any kind) is NOT elementary maintenance. An owner should NOT remove it, or re-install it, or anything like that. Now technically, as others have said, until the plane flies, it doesn't really matter. By the time it flies, someo...

"Yes, you can fly 2F for 100 hrs during TBO, but it builds carbon. Again, you choose the lesser of two evils." I ran on 2F last summer ... didn't note anything all that different ... Since I would run W100 + CamGuard otherwise, this is an interesting comment. So 2F builds more carbon than the altern...

Why are the Contis so much more resistant to corrosion than the Lycomings? Choices of alloys, or some other factors?

Although I'm informed about mr. Ronan's situation, I have NO idea who these candidates are, and I prefer not to vote than vote blindly. It's not like a provincial or federal election where I'll actually here from the candidates via the news or the mail or a phone call ... in this case, I have no clu...

"I'm a Canadian taxpayer so what saves the "government" money, saves me money. I truly don't understand why some people insist on dividing "us" and the "government" in matters of finance. "I shouldn't have to pay for it...the government should pay"." Exactly. Right now a bunch of people who'll never...

"I would like something I could could send to my MP or pertinent minister, in regards to the what some may consider out of line costs associated with a" not for profit business. " What not for profit business?? "and other associated costs that burden the general Aviation sector." Oh please ... by th...

re: DRM I don't imagine NavCanada would take this on on their own. For such a system to work, you'd need multiple chart/data producers to play ball, so you know the FAA, the Europeans, etc. Users would be rightfully pissed if there was fragmentation in that space, with every supplier having differen...

I don't see anything all that strange in that article ... The US General is not wrong within the US context ... they have interceptors and superiority fighters to cover for other types of aircraft with other missions. But many other countries do not. So a single multi-role aircraft will have to do. ...

The US data is free because it comes from government, and they have "free data" laws over there that makes it so. Here NavCanada is a corporation, and is free to charge for their products as they see fit. I don't think it's unfair for them to charge for their work ... I find it a little more strange...

"Really, this is the only fact that matters. The bylaws state that you have to go to the members to remove a director, but they chose this dubious back-handed removal instead. They haven't answered any questions about why they chose this method of removing Doug Ronan. I think that asking them questi...