The same question could be asked about life in general right now.

Vital Aviation and Vanderhoof Flying club have closed, and all flights schools in Alberta have apparently been told to close.

JasonE wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 9:41 am

I found this link interesting - it has data for all countries listed per 1mil population.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Likely underestimating USA, due to the lack of testing. Forget about cancelling flights to Europe, it's the USA that's the real problem now.

In Canada, I think we have been wreckless letting in daily flights from China. Every country is trying to deal with this the best way they can without destroying the economy. There is no perfect solution. A virus doesnt care. Nobody can predict this. USA has 10x the number of cases that Canada has,...

I'm somewhat struggling to imagine how a stall recovery could reach 110kt. Perhaps it's an older 172 with 85kt limitation? Even so, that's still a pretty bad stall recovery and the instructor should perhaps have taken control before it got to that point.

2R wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 28, 2020 3:20 pm

Hand sanitizer only kills bacteria , if you want to kill a virus you have to piss on your hands

Nope.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... s-covid-19

Alcohol kills coronavirus.

goldeneagle wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 28, 2020 12:18 pm

CpnCrunch wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 28, 2020 11:41 am

Anyone heard of hand sanitizer?

CATSA will take it away from you.

If you don't want to use the security baggie, you can take some sanitizing wipes.

Anyone heard of hand sanitizer?

The "some people can deal with it" attitude is total bullshit. PTSD doesn't happen to people who are weak-minded. In fact being "tough" and suppressing emotions might be part of the problem. I was recently visiting a friend whose husband is an Afghanistan vet. In his bathroom there were about 30 bot...

Totally agree. I understand what he was getting at but I was asked if I was "required" to contact Saskatoon during that phase of my trip. I'm such a literal guy. My answer was short and to the point "NO" but I probably should have elaborated that "while technically its not a requirement, it would b...

At the very least it's probably worth monitoring the frequency, so you can hear if you're being mentioned as conflicting traffic.

Yep, this was just for flight planning for the CPL flight test Nav portion. Well I'm glad to see I'm not going crazy as it is clearly class E. My instructor seemed pretty adamant that you had to talk to someone though. He's a great instructor and is the kinda guy who considers best practice a stand...

Oil leaked onto windshield. After losing the propellor. Yes, it looks like it lost the prop: https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/it-was-smoking-really-bad-no-injuries-reported-after-small-plane-crashes-near-victoria-1.4816923?fbclid=IwAR1eZ8kjaE47vqHWkuOGZ0a5Qm7B6xm9xBlZdZRo18pydY469vCm1eXNve0

More info here:

https://www.timescolonist.com/news/loca ... 1.24078499

Oil leaked onto windshield.

Works fine on my android phone.

Download->Maps->IFR Terminal->CAN

Maps->Layers->IFR Terminal->Canada

I'm definitely seeing the YVR IFR terminal chart overlaid on the victor LO.

FltPlan Go's support isn't all that great, but what do you expect from a free app.

Looking at the NOTAMs today for a 50nm flight, I got the 737 NOTAM, 2 NOTAMS about Iraq, 2 about Iran, and 2 about ATC services flying to USA. Although I noticed that setting the radius 1nm at least cuts out the duplicate Iran and Iraq NOTAMs so I only get one of each!

Yes, I did something similar to you, and I would definitely recommend it. There is a certain amount of overlap with the instrument rating, so it makes sense to at least start a PTR for your CPL, and you can then do it at whatever speed you want.

4000fpm descent doesn't sound like CFIT.

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/232468

A Westjet pilot recently told me he was bored to death flying the airlines.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa- ... SKBN1ZL22K

How on earth is Mr Bentley going to fly to Santa Monica after they do this?

The 150 will drop a wing if the ball isn't perfectly centred when you do a stall...the 172 is a bit more forgiving.

Maybe it was rigging, but this one wouldn't go to the right unless your foot was pushing the rudder pedal to the floor and the yoke pushing your navel into the baggage compartment. To the left, you could spin all day with a lot less effort. Was that power on or off? I did all my spins power off, bu...

I used Harv's pilottraining.ca as well, and got 94%. I also just used the slides rather than the videos. Their practice exams give you a good idea of how you'll do in the real exam. They tend to be more difficult than the real exam. For my INRAT I just used the books, and I scraped by with just over...

PilotDAR wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 18, 2020 6:17 am

I chose a spot with an extension cord present

Could it have been someone's extension cord, and they were miffed that you plugged into it?

I remember my instructor showing me spins to the left and when I asked about spins to the right was told "the 150 doesn't really spin to the right". I asked if I could try and he said "sure, go ahead". So right at the break I gave it full left aileron and the right wing dropped like a streamlined g...