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by floatpilot
Wed Sep 04, 2013 5:46 am
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: Cessna 182 Floatplane Crash in Kenora
Replies: 13
Views: 2573

Re: Cessna 182 Floatplane Crash in Kenora

pdw wrote:
North Shore wrote:So, if god was on your side, why did he make/allow the engine (to) quit?
We'll have to wait and see what kind of a man-made problem there was with the man-made engine I guess ... when the TSB figures that out.

The maintance was done at EDITED, theres the first man made problem!
by floatpilot
Fri Aug 09, 2013 7:03 am
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: 337 Gear Up is Saskatchewan
Replies: 159
Views: 18296

Re: 337 Gear Up is Saskatchewan

Flying the bug.


More avoidable than making sure there is gas in tank before going flying???? I see this as 100% avoidable but I'm just an ass!

Carry on
by floatpilot
Wed Jul 10, 2013 11:03 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Lac Mégantic: will or should there be a Public Inquiry?
Replies: 19
Views: 2532

Re: Lac Mégantic: will or should there be a Public Inquiry?

Cp has only had 3 oil trains hit the bush 1 head on and a few bridges since "the new sheriff" has been in town. Has absolutely nothing to do with all the jobs he's cut or mabe its just the work with fear mentality he's created that makes railways run so effectively ( not efficiently). But he's our f...
by floatpilot
Tue Jul 09, 2013 8:59 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Lac Mégantic: will or should there be a Public Inquiry?
Replies: 19
Views: 2532

Re: Lac Mégantic: will or should there be a Public Inquiry?

Hand brakes are on the cars not the unit, shouldn't matter if it was on fire or not. The train was not tied down when left unattended. Hand brakes are a mechanical brake and have nothing to do with air system.
by floatpilot
Tue Jul 09, 2013 8:35 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Lac Mégantic: will or should there be a Public Inquiry?
Replies: 19
Views: 2532

Re: Lac Mégantic: will or should there be a Public Inquiry?

There will be changes to hand brake policys. Cp used to have a policy that for the number of cars you had there was a minimum number of hand brakes to crank on then you would test the track by pulling or pushing with the locomotive. Now to save time they have put in a policy that it's up to the cond...
by floatpilot
Wed Jun 12, 2013 2:21 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Running out of fuel
Replies: 96
Views: 8483

Re: Running out of fuel

Doc wrote:I kind of prefer gauges don't work at all to ones that read incorrectly. Fill them, dip them or park it. Really pretty simple. If you can't ascertain how much petrol you have.....you just shouldn't go at all. Not rocket science. Really.

Easy now. Your going to upset folks talking like that.
by floatpilot
Thu May 16, 2013 4:36 am
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: DHC-2 Plane Crash May 2008 YXL (Pilot`s account)
Replies: 54
Views: 9254

Re: DHC-2 Plane Crash May 2008 YXL (Pilot`s account)

Was there ever an answer to the catastrophic engine failure? Why'd it quit?
by floatpilot
Mon Apr 01, 2013 12:16 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Railroad vs Aviation
Replies: 65
Views: 5256

Re: Railroad vs Aviation

I drive I was totally wrong! I did not know that the sbu had motion detector in it. Funny I had to learn this on an aviation web site!
by floatpilot
Mon Apr 01, 2013 5:59 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Railroad vs Aviation
Replies: 65
Views: 5256

Re: Railroad vs Aviation

I can only speak for CP Rail, there is nothing on the tail end of the trains that I work on that tells us if we are moving. The sbu is only a device that senses the drop in air for application of setting the emergency brakes from the tail end forwards. There is a switch in the engine to activate it ...
by floatpilot
Sun Mar 31, 2013 6:57 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Railroad vs Aviation
Replies: 65
Views: 5256

Re: Railroad vs Aviation

If the unit has the FTO there is a display on the screen in front of the hogger that shows your train and the track profile that it's on. You can see the tail end move on that. Other than that when you "lift"a train it's all by feel. Most guys look out the side window at the ground when starting and...
by floatpilot
Sat Mar 30, 2013 8:19 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Railroad vs Aviation
Replies: 65
Views: 5256

Re: Railroad vs Aviation

You can use the dynamic on it own, but are limited to the amount of horsepower you can use depending on the weights. You have to come off the throttle gradually then set up into dynamic and ease into it allowing the train to bunch up, once bunched then you can use what's available. You have to be ca...
by floatpilot
Thu Mar 28, 2013 7:31 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Railroad vs Aviation
Replies: 65
Views: 5256

Re: Railroad vs Aviation

I shoul have explained the FTO better. You guessed correct, it has a hard time sometimes controlling speeds at parts of a sub. It never goes too fast it's always way under. what this does is ruin the "swing" as we call it and there is no way you are saving anything. Burning way more fuel and add tim...
by floatpilot
Wed Mar 27, 2013 5:08 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Railroad vs Aviation
Replies: 65
Views: 5256

Re: Railroad vs Aviation

They are all the same for the most part. Guys got some traing when they installed the FTO(fuel trip optimizer) its like auto pilot. It's ran by gps satellite, it knows where the train is on the subdivisions it's running on and uses hills and corners to gain or lose speed. It's a brutal system. So to...
by floatpilot
Wed Mar 27, 2013 12:02 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Railroad vs Aviation
Replies: 65
Views: 5256

Re: Railroad vs Aviation

Seniority at cp is determined the same way. It starts from the time they received your application. They usually hire in big groups(class), so a bunch of guys all hired the same day, seniority is based on application times. I was basically a shoe in here in Kenora as I had family working there, I st...
by floatpilot
Mon Mar 25, 2013 5:30 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Railroad vs Aviation
Replies: 65
Views: 5256

Re: Railroad vs Aviation

I've ran a locomotive dry, twice!
by floatpilot
Sun Mar 24, 2013 12:22 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Railroad vs Aviation
Replies: 65
Views: 5256

Re: Railroad vs Aviation

I was riding around in the surgar shack(caboose) all last week on a work train. Thats about the only place youll see them any more is on some sort of assignment train. They are pretty neat little units, kinda like your own little appartment. The one i was in had the old oil burning stove taken out a...
by floatpilot
Sun Mar 24, 2013 12:08 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Railroad vs Aviation
Replies: 65
Views: 5256

Re: Railroad vs Aviation






solid i'm sure you've herd this. life dont mix with the railroad! Our instructor played this the first day of class.
by floatpilot
Sun Mar 24, 2013 12:04 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Railroad vs Aviation
Replies: 65
Views: 5256

Re: Railroad vs Aviation

I do trips regulaly to ignace from kenora and once and a while i guy gtes lucky and can double back home on and off. those are the good ones for sure, fast money. home in back in under 8 hours. usually end up in the bunk house in ignace for quite a few hours on a normal tour. being called for bk man...
by floatpilot
Sun Mar 24, 2013 9:53 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Railroad vs Aviation
Replies: 65
Views: 5256

Re: Railroad vs Aviation

Frozen.... They brought back the bk man position this winter! The new boss doesn't like the whole spare board guarantee deal so they have been putting brakeman on most trains. I have done very few trips as a conductor this winter, most of the time I'm in the second unit napping! Lots of trainees her...
by floatpilot
Tue Dec 18, 2012 8:24 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Another 406 ELT "success"
Replies: 23
Views: 3578

Re: Another 406 ELT "success"

Mabe they should of made these things work without an antenna!

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