EASA frozen ATPL? - 14 written exams (min pass rate 75%) - min 650 hours study required (when I last checked) - 200hrs TT min with 100 PIC (?) Expect an absolute minimum of 6 monts full time study to write the exams - normally in two sittings but can be more. Brush up on your Maths and Physics as yo...

Hey all.. I am trying to study the IATRA material while overseas and was searching for a good study guide - the only one I seem to find are the .**ne guides, which will hit you for almost $300 before tax and shipping for guide/test books. Is there any other feasible way of studying? I have read thro...

Your biggest handicap in working in any other industry is your flying qualifications / experience. Even with a degree, if you have periods of employment on your CV where you have worked as a commercial pilot, a lot of companies will be reluctant to hire you. Simply put, they wont think you will stic...

Don't forget to squalk 777 as soon as time permits. Yeah... always dial xpdr 7700 if you can!! I had a full electrical failure in a C210 at night, IFR, on the airway between Thunder Bay and Winnipeg (over Kenora). I was thick IMC and everything went black almost as quick as I could blink. In betwee...

Back to the solution; what is it? Simple really, if the pay is not commensurate with the skills and cost required you will not get enough applicants to do it at all , let alone the best and brightest. Instant airline pilots via the MPL program, besides being unsafe IMO, still doesn’t solve the prob...

This guy had his aircraft chained up and seized in Ont. and actually had TC show up in YVR to stop him departing with VERY sketchy equipment. He had his OC pulled on that basis.

AVOID AVOID AVOID

Careful Michael, with your musings and and tales of aviation glory, Cat Driver might think you're trying to knock him off the top spot...

Their CFI is a British fellow who instructs at Pro IFR. Really knowledgeable bloke and a heck of a good pilot. He's had a bunch of crashes that I know about (one on the BBC) and he once worked for me. That ended up in court Oh-oh. If its the guy I am thinking of he has posted on here fairly recentl...

SSTR = self sponsored type rating (!!!!!!) This thread on PPrune just about says it all: http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=293406 Ryanair You apply to them, they interview you, put you through a sim check, and if you are suitable, this is what you have to shell out for (this program main...

Magnum 357 Long barrel...good for shooting at locals through the storm window as you do a low and over to check for deliberate debris on the runway and them pesky kids who put it there....

Hell, even if there's nothing there..just shoot the place up anyway..everyone else does........

The landing gear failed to deploy," she said Tuesday. "The pilot was unable to abort the landing and glided to a controlled crash landing in the grass area north of the runway. Sorry, that doesn't make any sense at all. So you have a gear problem, but decide to feather the engines and shut them dow...

Vimy Ridge is one of the most moving battle grounds I have ever visited. It has the most surreal effect on you. Its actually classified as Canadian soil (I believe) and is managed by the Canadian government. Its crazy to go there and stand in the (still present) front line trenches and see how tiny ...

does anyone think that it just might have been a brain fart

Unlikely. I've seen it several times off the 8's. Always A340's as far as I can recall. There must be a lot of brain farts at AC...

OK, so here's a question for anyone with knowledge of AC Airbus A340 SOP's.... I have noticed several times recently that departing YVR (everytime I have seen this its been off the 8's) Air Canada A340's seem to leave their gear hanging out for an abnormally long time before raising it? And I mean a...

Well said Dash. Now, wait for it, altogether...1..2..3..here come the CNN and Fox news lovers responses.....

Shady McDick said...

-Shut up nerd.

Don't bullshit me with splitting hairs here.

I wasn't. I was just giving a possible and reasonable suggestion to Ball's comment to which you asked a question.

Are you this professional at work too?

A change in course necessary to ensure immediate safety of the flight perhaps?

Remember we are taught - Aviate, Navigate, Communicate in that order.

The MPL would see trainees moving into the right seat of high-performance jet transports with just 240 hr. of instruction. Of this, only between 60 and 120 hr. might actually be in the air and the student would have performed just 12 takeoffs and landings in the type he or she is to fly. The MPL is...

V1 .... Good post my friend, and most likely a fair assessment - unfortunately as you can read, you are singing to the masses who don't have the ability to see what is really happening... :roll: Lets play some word association here... :lol: War on terror / America / Mid-east / Israel / Neo-conserva...

AC is going to have to do more to upgrade their product that just a new cabin. AC has a global reputation for having poor flight attendants. Rude, old and fat. Yep, and this was the case with other world carriers until recently (UK = BA, British Midland) But times have changed there and things are ...

Nice, but not exactly up to competition standards. This type of seating looks very similar to BA's Club World, which is one tier below BA's "First" cabin which is even more luxurious. BA are about to operate a daily service from Calgary to London and now have 2 flights a day out of YVR. And news on ...

Thanks for the reply Captn Sweet n Juicy... I think I will go back to smoking my BC bud, as I barely managed to comprehend a word of that... :weedman: ...where do you see that I said I got an ass kicking...reading comprehension and debate...not your strong suit I don't need to "see" dude, its called...

Capn Sweet n' Juicy said you guys are generalizing and assuming that asses dont need to be torn open once in a while, ..Oh my...is that what your CRM instructor told you? :lol: I wish I could work at a place where every new pilot was eager and ready to go. I always was Evidently.... ...ignore a req...

Another said day for aviation...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5274958.stm