https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/no-one-hurt ... -1.6957140

Sounds like a very lucky outcome.

Thats during in good weather at least!

YEG TWR controller here. Track is mostly for separation from arrivals and the departures, ensures that departures don’t drift into the downwind’s on the RNAV STARS. If an aircraft is unable an RNAV departure, assuming they inform us, we clear them to climb RWY Hdg and advise Terminal so they can ens...

PIC is king, especially if you can get Night PIC (end of day returning to base after the survey).

Also you don’t want to burn any bridges. This is a small industry.

My 2 cents.

Rob

Trunorth wrote: ↑Sat Jan 15, 2022 10:08 am Anyone know if this was a training flight? Aerobatics? A/C registration?
Hope no one was injured other than pride.

I heard that all flight schools in YBW were not operating that day due to the winds.

https://youtu.be/7qe10LNFY6k

Try this instead. I had to video it off my phone, hopefully it works.

Tower controller here. Class C airspace - a clearance is required to enter, nuf said. Class D airspace - 2 way communication must be established. Ex. Sumspot tower, C172 FXXX 7 miles west inbound for landing. FXXX, Sumspot Tower, standbys. You have established 2 way communications, you are good to e...

No idea what happened, but reports of 2 occupants and no injuries.

If you don't have any real prospects to use your multi IFR after getting it (and I suspect that might be the case for a bit until COVID is over assuming you are a low experience pilot), I would suggest getting the Instructor and teaching first. Your school might just have a simulator that you can us...

Isn’t intentional spins prohibited with flaps extended in C172’s? I would suggest that even if you are doing an immediate recovery, you are still entering the incipient stage of the spin at the point of the cross controlled stall, so I have never taught these with flaps extended. Please correct me i...

Coming soon to an airport near you....

https://bit.ly/2ScTBGB

This is real, and Red Deer has a working version of it in testing right now. Might be a while before it is implemented, but the proof of concept is there and working.

It will be the hardest rating you will get. There is a lot of working in prepping lesson plans, and then revising them, and then practicing teaching them to a mirror, and then finally to your Class 1 instructor. It is also very intimidating as you realize that you don't know as much as you thought t...

My 2 bits. Also, airlines like university degrees, and they don’t have to be aviation related. So your son could go to a normal university, get a normal degree(science, business, engineering, etc) and do all his flight training on the side. RESP money goes to the kid, not the school, and you can eas...

I understand that in a very stressful situation you may panic and do things that aren’t necessarily the smartest, but for crying out loud listen to the flight crew! But then I guess everyone is an expert now. https://nationalpost.com/news/hysterical-passengers-ignoring-instructions-led-to-many-of-th...

Sorry to be bringing up an old thread. Last fall I returned to flight instructing part time after a 22 year hiatus changing careers to ATC, and just have a couple questions about this topic. I know my CFI and the TC flight test examiner who renewed my Class 2 both stated that my medical is good for ...

Doing visual approaches doesn't help a student training IFR. However, a C172 can easily do simulated IFR, get all the required practice for a rating and still get the same level of service from ATC, but because they are VFR, ATC does not have to apply full IFR separation. As an example, here at CYEG...

Flight instructor and Class C ATC here, my 2 bits. It is solidly Class E, no contact is required. However, at your selected cruising altitude you would be flying through an approach that may be active, hence the Mode C requirement. I would teach my flight students that a courtesy call to the tower w...

Sorry, cant help too much on the FSS side, different union. But it is probably very hard to get southern postings from what I understand.

robshelle

I made the switch in 97, left Borek at 1700 hours to go to ATC. It was a tough slog, but ended up making it VFR in Edmonton. No regrets, but do miss flying so now that my kids don’t need me as much, I am working on getting my flight instructor class 2 back, with the intention of part time flying. Th...

Port McNeill to Alert Bay. 4.3 NM

Robshelle

2 things. (Not my program, so this is only 2nd hand information) 1. This is in part being advanced by Elevate Aviation, a group of women in Aviation who are promoting aviation careers for females. 2. This is the first year of the program, and if it goes well, then there may be 2 intakes next summer,...

http://www.navcanada.ca/EN/careers/Page ... -Camp.aspx

If anyone here knows a young girl going from grade 9 to 10 this summer, and is looking for an all expense paid week long summer camp looking at various aviation related careers, check out the above link.

Robshelle

I talked to a fellow employee, who actually took a break in service for about 5 years. When he came back, we were on the Plan B pension for new hires, and for him he would have had to pay an obscene amount for the 5 years missed, only to go from the original plan to plan b. So he would have paid bac...

LAHSO - Dry runway crosswind component is not to exceed 25 kts, Wet Runway crosswind component is not to exceed 15 kts. Original poster is correct in his assumption, slight misprint in the AIM.

Robbie Benusic
YEG Tower