If your license specifies glasses, either to be available or required, TC accepts only prescription glasses. Further, if your license does say that they are required, TC also wants you to have a spare set of the same prescription glasses. Non prescription reading glasses do not qualify. No one will ...

My local scrapper, Woznuk Brothers in Cambridge Ont, pays 50 cents per pound if the material is clean, ie no paint, steel bolts, pop rivet shanks, old rod ends and forks, clevis pins, cables. Even zinc chromate lowers the price. They want aluminum only if paying the top price. If the material is any...

I once asked Arlo Speer about the legality of selling ad space on an Amateur aircraft. His answer was that if you wished to paint "Eat at Joe's" on your plane and Joe was willing to pay but did not require any level of performance, this was not a contravention of the regs. However if Joe wanted a gu...

The plane was actually a Moyes Dragonfly, a Basic UL pusher with a high thrust line, designed for the towing of hang gliders. The Rotax 582 2 stroke engine stopped suddenly at low altitude during climbout. The hang glider released immediately but the plane stalled and this was unrecoverable. The tow...

This plane has been issued its marks but it has not yet had its final inspection, therefore it has no fliight authority and is not on the database.

Gary Wolf
RAA Canada

In Canada it is entirely legal for the owner of a kit to subcontract the entire build to a third party. The owner must be present at each MD-RA inspection but besides this he does not have to do anything except maintain control of the flow of work and sign the cheques. Can you make a living doing th...

I have quite a bit of time in a Dragonfly powered by a turbo Subaru. The flying qualities are not that unusual but the landing procedure is very different. If you would like firsthand information give me a call at 519-648-3030 between 9-2 most days.

Gary Wolf
RAA Canada

The ICAO language standard unfortunately does not apply to students. The requirement is to prove proficiency at the license level. I went through this with TC on Ottawa a few years ago when London had an influx of foreign students and the airspace became filled with student pilots who had little und...

TSB reports of private aircraft, particularly those that are not certified, are often inaccurate. Even if there are fatalities involved the invesigation is rarely done at anything above level 5, which seems to exist merely to provide filler for the coroner's report. They have a budget, and since all...

The reason that Transport Canada deserves blame is because the document that TSB supplied was in French and it contained the registration marks of every plane in the report. The editor of the ASL had the report translated into English but he deleted all references to registration marks. I contacted ...

The TSB had it wrong. The 160 was designed and built by C.A.D.I., the predecessor to BushCaddy. When Bushcaddy bought the company they redesigned and reengineered the CADI planes, then added another four or five models of their own. The TSB writer exaggerated the report of the 160 too. The plane had...

Fellows, It was RAA Canada that broke the BushCaddy/TSB/ASL story. We read the original TSB document in French and found that the registration marks of none of the planes were Bushcaddy's. We then contacted the editor of the ASL and found that he had translated the original but had never checked the...