Very interesting . Thank you for sharing. Made a variety of very good points

I recently read in a "western propaganda" news article that Afghanistan is among the most corrupt countries in the world.

Strange.

Six months later, some light shed: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/correcting-fairy-tale-seal-account-osama-bin-laden-054233289.html Never believe the government. But in another recent thread (since removed) , you condemned us for believing the media / western oriented reports. Now you are referencing an ...

I am getting pretty discouraged by the number of times I have seen training aircraft with instructors onboard who allow the student to manoever the aircraft without considering where the prop wash is going. The latest and most egregious example was a few days ago. I was teaching a lesson on a Nanch...

We're doing our yearly risk management review at our company. We go through almost every incident report back as far as 20 years over a 3 week period. Some of these reports are fictitious in that they extrapolate to the worst case scenario to exemplify the need for diligence on everyone's part to p...

What's the big deal? Navajo drivers have been doing that for ages. Of course these guys knew in advance, our Navajo folks just "wing" it..... True, no big deal landing a 767 with the gear up. Common procedure for most of us. You have to remember there is a check list for this -- while hands and fee...

Rocket science not required. Pull your heads out of your asses. Maintain a positive rate of climb after takeoff and on missed approaches. Pretty easy. Don't .. run. Learn to do a 180 degree turn. Right fucken NOW. Don't "push" duty, weights, fatigue, weather. Don't let anybody else "push" you eithe...

Do most of you really think that calling a 180 a luxurious aircraft and posting it's gliding speed was not done tongue in cheek? Again, that's exactly what I suspected when I posted this. I still don't see anything to get angry about. Some of the reactions have taken me by surprise. Some people hav...

Q400 left side only

When was the last time anyone was prosecuted for treason or sedition?! Wouldn't the entire Bloc Quebecois be guilty of that, if they weren't all at home collecting federal pensions now? Louis Riel I believe. After Confederation, a revision of the statutes reduced the number of offences to only thre...

Title is self explanatory. Given the amount of eyes which glance this forum, I think there will be some entertaining stories. This hopefully will teach others a good lesson on what "not" to do as their careers progress. Not limited to Capt / FO relations although it would be preferred. Maybe you wer...

http://www.travelandleisure.com/article ... t-pilots/1

Make sure to click the arrow and read all 12 stories!

Remember .... it's just an article. No need to get all worked up.

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/story/2 ... nipeg.html


Now who would have thought! From "Apple Stores" to .....Jerseys !

What type of penalties would you impose? Maybe Canada should be the first to sanction China as well ?

Okay, so let's say that Air Canada's motives were simply due to the native population / trend of crime, ok..... so what's the point? Are they afraid they will have nobody else to rob? Are they truly concerned about human rights? (referring to Chiefs) . Did they make these claims in person or via sat...

robertsailor1 wrote:Ya fair trials, fair sentencing, good examples niss.

shhhhh . You may offend him.

gustind wrote:

winds_in_flight_wtf wrote:

gustind wrote:No.

You sure about that?

Yes.

Interesting

Doc wrote:

robertsailor1 wrote:Problem is Doc that the Saudis are on America's most protected list. Strange bedfellows indeed but oil will do that ya know.

Well, they shouldn't be on Canada's "protected" list. Screw 'em.

They will not be on the US' safe list for much longer

gustind wrote:No.

You sure about that?

Trying to show all those Air Canada pilots how bad ass your Zlin is?

Yeah it's a scary thought . All this "rights" stuff, and then this :

http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/28/world/mea ... ?hpt=wo_c2

Insurance companies have nothing to do with this as there is no rate factor. Really?? Maybe you should apply to fly for Miramax as a pilot flying in one of their movie shoots and get back to me about the insurance requirements thing..the truth it is all about what the insurer wants and believe me i...

No body said that experience makes you competent. What I said was that to be competent you need good judgment and you won't get that without experience. If you were using good judgment you would see that I was simply suggesting that all of you treat your elders with more respect I generally fail to...

Nobody can be considered wise that has done little. Wisdom is earned through exposure and experience­. Wisdom is very seldom associated with the young, because its usually based on experience and the young simply haven't been around long enough. That's not to diminish young peoples skills, because ...

Actually experience is how you derive judgment and competence and its a damn good thing to have. Don't you understand that the insurance companies want a certain amount of experience before they will give you the best rate. Common sense ain't very common on this site sometimes. Egotistical response...

Odd how experience is treated as unimportant - even with contempt - in aviation. I figured that you could probably learn something from old pilots, but I guess that isn't the case, because there's nothing to be learned from experience. An old timer once told me : "Experience says f*** all about the...