Sure, whatever. I have 10 years to think about coming back to wj (if it lasts), retain my seniority, and not worry about my job being contracted out to Swissport. You are subject to the CLC and will probably never work for wj again. But hey, the union is horrible. Remember when you guys almost bank...

Heard about this today from maintenance:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-glou ... e-31144128

Rumour is that new Q400s will soon be delivered with used props.

I think a secondary interesting discussion from an ethics discussion is this:

Your buddy calls you on the radio 10 minutes after he takes off and asks you to read him an approach plate for his destination so he can make notes because he forgot his plates. Do you do it?

The shortest strip in Bearskin's network is Fort Frances which is just under 4500 feet long.

Does anyone know of an actual case where a bomb was placed on an aircraft and then the airline or police was warned about it? Heck, forget an airplane. How about a bomb being placed anywhere and the police or location being warned about it. Is there a single reported case of this happening? I don't...

Well, with all respect, if you think that a TPE331-11 spinning at 96% at zero torque is a garden-variety engine failure then I really have nothing to add. Fair enough - I don't know how weird that is. OTOH, if one ignores the gauges and flies by the seat of one's pants - i.e., experiences the yaw, ...

You guys are all acting like it was a 'kaboom, hard yaw left, all the bells and whistles telling them they had an engine failure'. It wasn't. Did anyone actually read the report, or jump to the end. With a low power setting, and gusty winds, at 500' the airplane is getting bumped around, and anyone...

That Qatar thing was a little bit harsh. They fly the Dreamliner do they not? how many years behind was that? Three? Four?

It does look like the tail feathers came off in unison. It also looks like SS2 is flying upside down and backwards. I'm wondering if the feathers failed from overload during the feather and the craft nosed down 180 degrees when they detached.

You'd think that they would have stuck with the tried-and-true kerosene/LOx motors that have been used since Von Braun? Or is the new engine cheaper? More eco-friendly? Lighter? Disclaimer: I have exactly zero expertise in this I was however a huge fan of the SpaceshipOne project and read everythin...

I don't think that's really embarrassing. I read the book "Vulcan 607" a little while ago and discovered that the Vulcan that bombed the Falklands navigated there with An INU strapped to the floor in a wooden box that had been cannibalized out of a junked BA airliner. They also found a key aerial re...

Can you Name a native owned airline that is the "lifeline" of dozens of reserves that has been allowed to fail.

Not sure but wasn't NAC exactly that?

Absolutely speechless, so sad.

I read about this on flightglobal yesterday. I liked the ad in the sidebar.

what I find strange is the disproportionately large number of Cirruses ending up dangling at the end of the para lines. Illya You have to separate parachute pulls from spins. Not every chute pull has been from a spin and I'm not even sure that the majority of them were. There were engine failures b...

Big Pistons Forever wrote:To all those chute haters I have one question. Are you really OK with passengers dying when their life could be saved if the pilot pulled the red handle ?

Exactly!

I did a quick Google search and came up with this: http://kineticlearning.com/pilots_world/safety/06_05/article_06_04.html I've read several times before that Alan Klapmeier wanted the chute because of the memories of his midair in 1985. I remember reading that he watched the other aircraft plummet ...

Too bad pilots can't actually fly anymore. Not saying there was a choice....don't know the terrain, but? Illya But what? I've never understood all the hostility towards the chute. The way people talk on this forum, you'd think that several planes were parachuting out of the sky everyday. I might ha...

Hi Dave, For those of us that applied to the posting titled "First Officer" that ends in April, is that posting base specific to Calgary? Do we need to re-apply to the "First Officer-Toronto" posting to be considered for that spot? My personal preference would be Calgary but I want to make sure I'd ...

Maybe I caught them on a bad day but Transat in YYZ can be pretty particular on that.

Working hard and being professional has absolutely no correlation with success in this industry.

It's a good policy, but if you believe 100% that you will be rewarded for your hard work you're in for a big surprise.

If nothing else they'll have a cool paint job. In some small way it'll offset the atrocity that is the new AA scheme.

"Dust Up" was THE WORST. It was so awful even Joe Public didn't go for it.

"The end result is... A slightly shattered wing". That's my new favourite term.

Here is an interesting article from Air & Space a few years ago. Apparently his flight to Red Square was the last time he flew a plane.

http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-f ... =fullstory