Try posting in the flight training forum instead of "bush flying", and hopefully get better results

The Swedish accident board has published an interim status report in English here:

http://www.havkom.se/assets/reports/SRL-2016_01e.pdf

Here´s something, but not much yet, really:

http://bnonews.com/news/index.php/news/id2677

What was the final word on the SAS gear collapses. Did it turn out to be the fault of the manufacturer or the airline? The causal factor was ineffective maintenance procedures with respect to processes used to lubricate components of the MLG. Part of the problem was maintenance instructions that we...

The 78-year-old pilot still had a commercial licence, for what it´s worth... according to the prelim report here

http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief ... 2122&key=1

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-24171994 Rescuers recovered the body of David Riggs from Caihu lake in Shenyang city, Liaoning province, on Friday. A Chinese translator, also aboard the aircraft which crashed on Tuesday, was rescued but later died in hospital, Xinhua news agency says. Off...

Piper is still selling Seminoles and Seneca V´s.

Trying to stop people speculating on the reasons why a crash happened is futile. You can´t possibly do it. All you can do is try bringing some reason into the discussion and if the uninformed do not get the message, move on.

No survivors, I´m afraid

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-o ... le1612203/

http://www.metronews.ca/toronto/local/article/558923--buttonville-crash-exposes-danger-of-advertising-flight-missions According to some members of the aviation community, aerial advertising is a low-paying entry-level job that many young pilots like Archer choose to do in order to log more flying ho...

FWIW, the Finnish CAA have published a page dedicated to the"impossible turn" and their advice, based on the Canadian study of 1993 :prayer: is "do not try it EVER" put this page in google translate and you´ll get the idea http://www.ilmailuhallinto.fi/mahdoton_kaarto .. also, the Finnish Air Force ...

According to CADORS 2010P0657 (just published)

The aircraft is reported to be the Atleo River Air Service Cessna A185F (C-GIYQ)

Here´s a story about two Finnish girls who bought a Diamond DA40 in the States, hired a pilot who had previous experience and flew their aircraft across the pond to Helsinki last summer via the usual route, sort of proving that girls can do it, too: http://n756ds.blogspot.com/ The aircraft is now ba...

Here´s an accident that happened in spite of the Hoover ring - partly because the local fuel distributor had attached an extra piece to the nozzle to make it fit: these German guys were driving a Beech 60 Duke, landed in Oulu, Finland for refuelling, asked for the wrong fuel (Jet A) not realizing th...

I´m glad I didn´t watch it - instead I saw tonight´s bronze medal game which ended on a merrier note

The full HD broadcast quality from the games, by the way, is excellent. I´m glad I bought the hardware. Can´t get any better than that

Here´s a DC-6 pic I took last year

Small news perhaps, but since Finnair retired the MD-11 from scheduled passenger traffic yesterday, Feb 22, that only leaves one operator, KLM, who still use it on intercontinental passenger flights. The last MD-11 flight arrived from Delhi yesterday afternoon. Even the captain had to admit publicly...

Today´s statement by the Air Force says flight data readout confirms the pilots ejected at approx. 5 km at a speed of 875 km/h and the pilots are out of intensive care. Next update not to be expected until end of February.

It certainly is... A Finnish Accident Investigation Board search party on Friday found the flight data recorder of an F/A-18 jet that crashed the day before. The Finnish Air Force is to begin analysing the data from the so-called black box, which is actually orange, as soon as possible. Kimmo Nortaj...

They (Patria Aviation, Finland) spent a few years of calendar time, some 15 million euros and a hundred thousand manhours to build a twin seat Hornet D from two half frames, one Finnish and one Canadian - but now it´s gone, having crashed today on a test flight where the two pilots had to eject beca...

A short story from my home country: A security manager actually had the balls to suggest that profiling should be used, based on ethnicity & religion and such. It didn´t take too long before it was officially denied though. http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/htimes/domestic-news/general/9498-finland-may-pr...

The preliminary report is out. No fuel in the wingtip tanks because they thought they wouldn´ t need it... Captain James checked the weather before leaving Apia in Samoa and concluded that he did not require the maximum fuel load, according to the ATSB preliminary report into the crash. "At that tim...

Scandinavian rates at present are not much better than Switzerland... club prices in Finland: 150 Canadian for a C152, 180 for a C172. 225 and 270 bucks, respectively, at a FTO.

In announcing that dozens of scanners that can peer through clothing will be installed at airports across Canada, Transport Minister John Baird also said children under the age of 18 won't have to go through the scanners. The government would not say why the exemption had been made. Transport Canad...

Body scanners produce kiddie porn? Really? :shock: OTTAWA–Travellers under 18 will be exempt from Canada's peek-a-boo body scanners amid international fears that the resulting images would amount to child pornography. While Canadian officials on Tuesday refused to explain the exemption, the child-po...