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- Sun Dec 25, 2022 4:22 pm
- Forum: Bush Flying & Specialty Air Service
- Topic: Advices on training plan, should I get more than a CPL ?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1968
Re: Advices on training plan, should I get more than a CPL ?
I've been on the hiring end of things for a while and I would agree that, if you're going for a float job, the more float hours the better. The bush environment can be vey challenging. The operators know that and are much more inclined to hire someone with more than a bare minimum float endorsement....
- Mon Nov 07, 2022 8:14 pm
- Forum: Air Canada
- Topic: Why does AC not have a base in YYC?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 7782
Re: Why does AC not have a base in YYC?
YWG is in the centre of the continent.
Despite what Toronto may believe
- Tue Dec 03, 2019 9:03 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Blue Water Aviation plane down North of Winnipeg
- Replies: 66
- Views: 17460
Re: Blue Water Aviation plane down North of Winnipeg
Hey PilotDAR I did mention it was third hand Perhaps I should also have mentioned it was verbal I suspect that it is not official yet but very likely to happen. I don’t think they’re grounded, but there’s a Safety Bulliten to inspect the struts/fittings/bolts, etc before its next flight. That is bes...
- Mon Dec 02, 2019 3:28 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Blue Water Aviation plane down North of Winnipeg
- Replies: 66
- Views: 17460
Re: Blue Water Aviation plane down North of Winnipeg
Admittedly I got it third hand but from a fairly reliable non gov. source.
A reasonable expectation of gov. response given circumstances.
I wonder if the USA operators will be told to follow suit?
A reasonable expectation of gov. response given circumstances.
I wonder if the USA operators will be told to follow suit?
- Mon Dec 02, 2019 2:46 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Blue Water Aviation plane down North of Winnipeg
- Replies: 66
- Views: 17460
Re: Blue Water Aviation plane down North of Winnipeg
Evidently all Otters in Canada have been grounded pending the results of the accident investigation.
That's gonna hurt the west coast operators hard.
I hope they find the cause of the wing failure very soon. Before anything else catastrophic happens.
That's gonna hurt the west coast operators hard.
I hope they find the cause of the wing failure very soon. Before anything else catastrophic happens.
- Sat Jun 08, 2019 8:12 am
- Forum: Bush Flying & Specialty Air Service
- Topic: Turbine Otter with 8000A Whips External Load
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2412
Re: Turbine Otter with 8000A Whips External Load
I used to fly that type of plane and the MB govt did go through all the hoops necessary to allow extermal loads on the aircraft but I don't know if it allowed external loads on both sides of the aircraft.
- Sat Jun 08, 2019 8:10 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Manitoba Govt Air Services to be Privatised
- Replies: 146
- Views: 34526
Re: Manitoba Govt Air Services to be Privatised
anyone read the articles from the MB govt and in the Winnipeg Free Press regarding Lifeflight? The govvie ain't nice.
- Sun Oct 14, 2018 7:28 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Bird Control... any tricks?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5891
Re: Bird Control... any tricks?
Funniest thread on a serious subject I have read in a very long time!
ROFL
Be careful with anything with ammonia in it. It attacks the plastic of your windows and makes your plane smell like pee.
ROFL
Be careful with anything with ammonia in it. It attacks the plastic of your windows and makes your plane smell like pee.
- Tue Mar 20, 2018 6:36 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Bombardier considers move away from Downsview
- Replies: 49
- Views: 10301
Re: Bombardier considers move away from Downsview
Maybe not in Gimli and the interlake but Winnipeg is not far away and I think has a significant number of people in the aerospace industry. Also maybe some present employees could be persuaded to move west. But like someone said in an earlier post, any move will be east. Manitoba, on the fringe of t...
- Sun Mar 18, 2018 9:54 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Bombardier considers move away from Downsview
- Replies: 49
- Views: 10301
Re: Bombardier considers move away from Downsview
So, just to throw this in as a wild card suggestion that won't happen because it is west of Toronto, but how about YGM, Gimli in Manitoba? Big concrete runway, lots of space, cheap housing nearby, ramp big enough any plane they make...
- Thu May 04, 2017 8:02 pm
- Forum: Employment Forum
- Topic: Companies not paying Stat Holiday Pay
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5049
Re: Companies not paying Stat Holiday Pay
I was in a bit of a similar situation. Got called the evening before the federal holiday and told I wasn't flying the next day, therefore no pay. I waited to see if the stat was on my paycheck. Nope. I am getting my facts together to see what I am owed but I think they average your daily mileage for...
- Wed May 03, 2017 3:55 pm
- Forum: Employment Forum
- Topic: Companies not paying Stat Holiday Pay
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5049
Re: Companies not paying Stat Holiday Pay
I'm going to do a resurrection on this thread. Here's aquestion for you people. I get paid straight mileage, no reserve, no base salary. This is to my way of thinking the same as an incentive based system such as a salesman's commissions,a category which is covered under labour legislation. So, if I...
- Thu Oct 15, 2015 9:04 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: seeking advice
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3209
Re: seeking advice
I agree with North Shore. Hopefully all the other Instructors will be with you.
Maybe the labour board(or whatever it is called) can do something for you as well?
Maybe the labour board(or whatever it is called) can do something for you as well?
- Tue Aug 25, 2015 5:07 pm
- Forum: Bush Flying & Specialty Air Service
- Topic: Low timer prospects in YT, Northern MB, SK
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5341
Re: Low timer prospects in YT, Northern MB, SK
maybe try AlAir in Ste. Theresa Point in MB. Al Hadland has 2 cherokee 6's.
- Thu Jul 30, 2015 7:47 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Need Info about Thompson Manitoba
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3960
Re: Need Info about Thompson Manitoba
Thompson is: Great food at the Northern, The Hub, and of course, Popeyes. Pizza at Santa Maria's and Tom's. Crazy Petes. Some very nice people (and some not so nice) "The Walk of the Living Dead" by the TI. Thompson has all the mod cons such as Walmart, Canadian Tire, Tim Hortons and Safeway to name...
- Sat Jul 18, 2015 8:22 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Boeing uninterruptible autopilot
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1767
Boeing uninterruptible autopilot
Yeah I know it was brought up in threads in 2007, but recent crashes in the Indian ocean and Ukraine makes people think... Fielding McConnell started the whole exposure of this in 2006 I believe and a friend of mine brought it to my attention. Interesting concept but is it true? I have never heard i...
- Sat May 30, 2015 5:25 am
- Forum: Bush Flying & Specialty Air Service
- Topic: Water Rudders
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3091
Re: Water Rudders
I fly on the 8000's which have water rudders that don't retract up very far by design. Backing into a beach you have to be very careful to straighten them before impact with the sand. Otherwise the AME's get really annoyed at you for bending "their" plane.
- Thu Apr 30, 2015 8:24 pm
- Forum: Bush Flying & Specialty Air Service
- Topic: 2015 ice out
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3358
Re: 2015 ice out
ice must be rotten up north here in MB, I just had word of a plane going through it. Pilot is OK, plane has minimal damage
- Thu Apr 30, 2015 10:25 am
- Forum: Bush Flying & Specialty Air Service
- Topic: 2015 ice out
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3358
Re: 2015 ice out
I had word from Northern MB that the ice is still thick but looks like it's going to melt quickly with this warm weather
- Thu Mar 19, 2015 6:41 am
- Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
- Topic: Pilot should get tips ?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5251
Re: Pilot should get tips ?
Tipping in the bush pilot world seems to be a hit and miss thing. Ontario bush pilots seem to get a lot more tips than Manitoba pilots for example.
I have heard that putting a sign up inside the plane that says "tipping your pilot will help him remember where he left you" increases tips...
I have heard that putting a sign up inside the plane that says "tipping your pilot will help him remember where he left you" increases tips...