This: It's just not that hard contradicts your very next sentence: three pilots who have been working in that environment for years can still bollock it up If the job were as easy as you say it is, and it didn't require a pilot to do it right, then there would not be a broken airplane and three fata...

And therein lies the point: The number of engines has nothing to do with anything, it's all about understanding your environment, and some are touch more complex than others... the kayak gives me plenty of "managing...' No engine req'd. Lots of people sail, not many run white water... Lots of peopl...

There, fixed it for you.

I was originally going to go for something like that, but I figured what you fly had at least one engine to manage.

I must admit, I'm beginning to fail to understand how the word "Pilot" applies in modern airliners anymore... I'll explain it in pictures and analogy for you: If we were sailors, this would be your vessel: rush big brother.jpg This would be the airliner: http://luxedb.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01...

Maybe in the same sense that salmonella can be a culture.

bmc wrote:Say again equipment type.

The type that won't let me give in to the urge.

.....kick off the auto pilot and barrel roll?

It must be true. Two of their reporters saw a video of it on a guys cell phone. As soon as they come up with $200K they'll show the video to all of us.

I would lay odds that the OP has stock in one of the two companies mentioned in the post.

azimuthaviation wrote:

“I can tell you this, that when we form government in 2015, we will not be painting that plane orange.”

I like his sass, and his confidence.

He's sure got a sense of humour.

Either you trust those students enough I don't think you need further "evaluation" or you believe you have really good fire insurance. Who said anything about using my airplane? Your avatar is not getting along with my browser, it's a box with a ? In it. Yeah, it's been muddled for a while now. I'v...

As for shutting the engine off, I don't think it is necessarily dangerous, it's just that the risks don't justify the rewards in a training environment. +1 This falls into the category of, "Things I would not do myself, but wouldn't summarily execute others for." Instead the pilot mindlessly rattle...

omgwereallgoingtodie wrote:Island air

I think that place is pretty much unkillable.

Colonel Sanders wrote:I do not like that at all, but one does
not ignore the paperpushers.

Paper pushers are becoming the bane of my existence as well........

rent increases already drove one flight school away

Who's left?

This may be a case of, "Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's smart".

Contrast that with Harper's annual trip up north for the shot of him on a ship with CF-18's and a submarine that they practically had to tow up there for the occasion all in the same frame, or a ship assault by JTF-2, our previously super secret anti-terrorist unit. So a large joint exercise in an ...

.....I never even heard the music start. Must be going deaf in my old age.

Old Dog Flying wrote:And we old farts are called arrogant.

You are. But that's ok. Some people like that in a pilot.

I think you are in a time-warp. Two hours ago you posted it was Sunday morning. I'm pretty sure the rest of us are somewhere at Tuesday. That was deliberate, I wanted to see how many people here actually think about what I post. :mrgreen: I did read it, and just chalked it up as an "old guy moment"...