https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/belarus-arrests-critic-divert-flight-raman-pratasevich-1.6038279 Gospadin Lukashenko doing a bit of overreach to arrest (& likely get rid of) a journalist. Doubt much will happen but think flights to/from Belarus, including entering their airspace, should be banned unti...

Follow the checklist/QRH. Some aircraft allow you to cycle the gear, others don't.

Be interesting to see the investigation details, if one ever gets done. Minimums on RWY 13, Juba, are ~300' on the rnav (only approach available last ime I was there), so the crew likely busted minimums - not that I would be surprised. UN likely won't do much, other than send the crew packing.

Too funny! Even if previous use is an issue(which it isn't), it will be legal in 13 months (assuming JT & the Sunshine band don't do another flip flop).
Maybe Garneau will mandate pre-flight tongue swabs. LOL

Flying rates depend on the fleet & ops tempo. Fighters are generally the lowest (150-200 hrs/year), while multi-engine transport or long range patrol can average above 7-800 (Aurora pilots used to get 8-1000 hrs/year chasing subs during Cold War ). I personally averaged ~450 hrs/year during my caree...

Should have put this in initially. "Normal" career progression is 2 flying tours (gets you through obligatory service), then ground job, flying (x2 if not promoted, X1 if promoted). Who gets punished - people following the normal career progression guidelines (they have to "retrain" after a ground j...

2 comments. Lears use agreement lights for the cross feed & fuselage valves so you need to monitor the lights when you move the switch; otherwise, you may miss that the valve didn't open/close should a light be burnt out. There is a checklist should that happen &/or you get an imbalance. Lights adde...

Split flap shouldn't be an issue as the 2 sides are linked. Lear 35s are very sensitive to being slow, final turn stalls are not unknown. Picture of aircraft shows it has Aronca TRs - can be "touchy" & only armed on before landing/final check depending on SOPs. See what the TSB finds.

For comparison - note that RCAF pilots on't have the luxury of simply walking away! Nothing like blackmail to improve morale. ]RESTRICTED RELEASE PERIODS FOR PILOT 000183 - OPERATIONAL TRAINING OR EXCHANGE FLYING POSITIONS UNCLASSIFIED REFS: A. FY 16/17 ANNUAL MILITARY OCCUPATION REVIEW - AIR FORCE ...

Like most things you'll likely adjust after a bit of exposure. If you want to really check out your ears ability to adjust to rapid pressure change, get in the 172 again and dive from 5000' (or a bit higher) down to 2000' or lower at 3000'/min or more. FWIW, most airliners limit cabin pressure chang...

I can see continuing takeoff if above 100 kts (or whatever SOP speed they choose) as a high speed hey weight abort has more issues than a light weight landing, but they lost it on taxi!? Be interesting to both have a 330 pilot comment on the aircraft braking system ( some anti-skid systems do not wo...

Is this something new, or a known issue with the 320 fms that should have been trained in the sim?? My uneducated guess - known issue that could/should have been included in sim trng. Then again - I've been given shit for doing waas approaches (in a waas enabled aircraft) without receiving "official...

A stark reminder that these things are dangerous. Training has always been more dangerous than combat. More pilots lost their lives in WWII trading accidents than were killed in combat. Fly safe everybody. Illya No, that's not the case. Hasn't been for many, many years. ?? Care to back up with data...

Chief pilot of company that owned the Kingair-200 until recently is in town. He was called by CASA as they thought it was still under their AOC. He knew immediately who the pic was. His take - we were in same room when he was talking to home office. This could turn into a s..tshow. Locals have been ...

Math is wrong. FO Base salary = $36k Overseas bonus = 135% pay so you get 235% of salary when overseas (100%+135%). May still be some bases with higher bonus rates - don't work there anymore. work 6 months = 36/2*235% = $42.3k Add 7% (I believe) vacation pay, so another $2520. You get paid base sala...

Report states that there were 3 independent attitude indicators, which is the normal set up in a CRJ. The stay AI is located in the left centre of the instrument panel & easily viewed from either seat. When I did the CRJ course, students had to fly an ILS totally reliant on the stay AI (it incorpora...

Adopt procedures used elsewhere in the world - report POB when calling for taxi & on first contact with approach during arrival. PITA in many ways, but useful in cases such as this.

Never had to use for real but fairly easy to determine (and done during training/simulator). On a flight, check total fuel flow then pull one engine back to "neutral thrust/power" and advance the other(s) to maintain airspeed (best not to do above one engine out max alt). Re-check the fuel flow to s...

Not a complete answer, but the constant speed drives attached to the generators (IDGs) on the CRJ 100/200 can go offspeed in a steep climb if the oil is slightly low. Oil level doesn't have to be low enough to do any damage for this to occur, and the generators can be reset and operate normally for ...

Cottage TransCap isn't my type of company, but as it stands, your post is mainly innuendo and possibly slander. Please post some #s (i.e. pay and per diem with the rates from other companies such as VAL) to back up your claims. Please include the rates for the different levels of "hazard/location pa...

In that vein, Voyageur Airways actually requires pilots changing aircraft (even at company request) to cough up for another training bond! Negative. If the company requests a change of type there is no bond. Not the experience of a bunch of CRJ people; although, I guess that technically the company...

I've been in 3 systems; 1. Bond 2.Bonus 3. nothing Personally, I think a carrot is a lot better than a stick! Offering a bonus at regular intervals, for longevity, installs a lot more loyalty toward the company than having bonds (all in how you structure pay, etc). Rewarding someone for staying and ...

G'day Bolter Are you aware that the U.S.A.F. and U. S. N. were the first line of defence on Canada's east coast until the mid-1960's? Cheers...Chris I think that if you dig deeper you'll find that the defense of North America has officially been a joint responsibility since 1957 (year NORAD was for...

Maybe the "Donald" will make JT & the Sunshine band ante up some bucks! In a related note - Australia with ~23mil population & smaller GNP has ordered 75 F-35s, has super hornets + f-18s, buying 12 growlers (super hornet EW version), has 5-6 Airbus tankers, a bunch of wedgetail AWACS, bunch of P-8 P...

I heard there is a course on but that is only rumour as YYB doesn't tell us what is up unless we run across the training staff at the sim. I also heard of 3 Dash Capts being offered the CRJ course, which would imply that there will be openings on the 8 - again only rumour/might have lost a 8 contrac...