Dang... You're right! Who would have thought there'd be *two* airlines starting with S having complete meltdowns at the same time...
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- Sat Dec 31, 2022 9:41 am
- Forum: Sunwing
- Topic: Cluster @#$!
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7151
Re: Cluster @#$!
- Fri Dec 30, 2022 10:31 am
- Forum: Sunwing
- Topic: Cluster @#$!
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7151
Re: Cluster @#$!
This was posted as a reply to the question "don't they have software to manage aircraft and crew?" in another group i'm in... There is a program. It optimizes crews and aircraft. It reroutes based on cost etc. The problem is, there was little if NO human intervention and when it started rerouting it...
- Sun Dec 25, 2022 11:42 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Nav Canada Metar/TAF
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1170
Re: Nav Canada Metar/TAF
Wow... 12 months and they haven't fixed that yet? They need a new web designer.
- Tue Dec 20, 2022 8:00 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Proposed rule change to require additional training after passing a flight test
- Replies: 57
- Views: 3132
Re: Proposed rule change to require additional training after passing a flight test
Then when the electrical system fails one day, naturally at night, forgot to charge the IPAD, pilot is dead. Nonsense. Most of us, and most new pilots, are flying with multiple GPS units capable of navigating themselves out of trouble. Cell phone, iPad, even my watch has a GPS in it and the ability...
- Wed Dec 14, 2022 7:41 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Personal Callsigns
- Replies: 82
- Views: 9103
- Sun Dec 11, 2022 8:28 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Two World War II-Era Planes Collide and Crash at Texas Airshow
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3045
Re: Two World War II-Era Planes Collide and Crash at Texas Airshow
"Video Unavailable - this video is Private"oldyellr wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 6:41 pm Laying blame. Go to the 26 minute mark.
https://youtu.be/prk0j8cveYY
- Fri Dec 09, 2022 7:34 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Best practices for owning aircraft via corporation
- Replies: 11
- Views: 807
Re: Best practices for owning aircraft via corporation
It's going to be hard to find a competent accountant to prepare annual accounts for less than $1000. If you want to calculate and file a company tax return yourself, and your co-owners trust you to do so without screwing up, there's nothing stopping you. As someone who has been calculating and fili...
- Thu Dec 08, 2022 7:17 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Best practices for owning aircraft via corporation
- Replies: 11
- Views: 807
Re: Best practices for owning aircraft via corporation
There is no minimum sanction, but there are guidelines for first, second and subsequent offences with adjustments for mitigating and aggravating factors. I’ll look in my archived copy of the Aviation Enforcement Policy Manual (which TC doesn’t want you to see any more) but my understanding comes fr...
- Sat Dec 03, 2022 8:32 am
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: Magworx
- Replies: 3
- Views: 821
Re: Magworx
Had my mags done there this year, great service. Mags seem to be working fine after I adjusted my timing.
- Wed Nov 30, 2022 7:40 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Mooney Crashes into Hydro Tower
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2456
Re: Mooney Crashes into Hydro Tower
I think he crashed with an electrical issue.
- Wed Nov 30, 2022 7:38 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Personal Callsigns
- Replies: 82
- Views: 9103
Re: Personal Callsigns
Would this be an acceptable callsign today? It was fine for Wing Commander GIbson's dog, in 1944: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigger_(dog) And yet M*A*S*H episodes run on repeats regularly featuring the black character "Spearchucker Jones." I'm amazed they're still allowed to broadcast those epis...
- Fri Nov 25, 2022 7:36 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: E-logbooks
- Replies: 4
- Views: 779
Re: E-logbooks
Your site shows going between decimal hours and hours and minutes...the hours and minutes are multiples of six, while AIM 4.1 says "Air Time and Flight Time should be recorded to the nearest 5 minutes, or to the nearest 6 minutes when using the decimal system as follows: " Written before the invent...
- Mon Nov 21, 2022 7:32 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: How are flight attendants allowed to make less than Min Wage?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3045
Re: How are flight attendants allowed to make less than Min Wage?
Just for all those who don't actually work in aviation and don't understand how being paid hourly block time as cabin crew works: for CRA purposes, tax documents from the employer show half the posted pay rate at twice the posted hours, ie: if you work 75 hours per month at $28/hr, your official do...
- Mon Nov 21, 2022 7:28 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: How are flight attendants allowed to make less than Min Wage?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3045
Re: How are flight attendants allowed to make less than Min Wage?
If you are paid $24/hour, but are only paid for 900 hours per year, you only get paid $21,600 before tax. And you're working *part time*. If you are paid for 4-6 hours per day but work 8-14, your pay is essentially cut in half. At Encore, our flight attendants are paid roughly $10-14 per hour actua...
- Mon Nov 21, 2022 7:25 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: How are flight attendants allowed to make less than Min Wage?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3045
Re: How are flight attendants allowed to make less than Min Wage?
...then he appears to have made a serious vocational error.Conflicting Traffic wrote: ↑Fri Nov 18, 2022 11:39 am...because he's tied up doing unpaid work for his employer, then...
- Fri Nov 18, 2022 7:37 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: How are flight attendants allowed to make less than Min Wage?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3045
Re: How are flight attendants allowed to make less than Min Wage?
26.94 x 75 (Monthly Guarantee) x 12 months a year = $24,246/yr Alberta’s min wage is $15/hr x 40 hour/week x 52 weeks = $31,200/year. This is almost $7000 higher than encore. How is this legal??? Because it's comparing apples and oranges. You're comparing someone working full time, at 40 hours per ...
- Mon Nov 14, 2022 8:17 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Two World War II-Era Planes Collide and Crash at Texas Airshow
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3045
Re: Two World War II-Era Planes Collide and Crash at Texas Airshow
This came in this morning:
- Sun Nov 13, 2022 9:18 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Two World War II-Era Planes Collide and Crash at Texas Airshow
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3045
Re: Two World War II-Era Planes Collide and Crash at Texas Airshow
I'm amazed at how cleanly the fuselage on the B-17 separated from the wings. Instant lawn dart. Yeesh.
And... [rant]Portrait videos make baby Jesus cry. Turn your phone horizontal you damn dirty ape![/rant]
And... [rant]Portrait videos make baby Jesus cry. Turn your phone horizontal you damn dirty ape![/rant]
- Wed Nov 09, 2022 8:15 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: MAYDAY in NW Ontario yesterday?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6219
Re: MAYDAY in NW Ontario yesterday?
"...As a result of this, guidance was put out that if you were slow to recognize that you had entered icing conditions the correct procedure would be to pull one engine back to idle and then apply engine heat. After a minute or two you could slowly advance power and if everything seemed normal then...
- Wed Nov 02, 2022 6:33 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: What Happens When a Helicopter Loses a Rotor Blade
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1485
Re: What Happens When a Helicopter Loses a Rotor Blade
Thankfully all that happened was inertia. If they'd been able to get off the ground, they would have found that gravity happens too.