so wasting up to $30,000+ over the cost of airline travel merely to gain maybe 7 hrs additional time in PSP..... My background is corporate aircraft sales so I admit I may be biased but here goes.... 16 Managers x 7 Hrs each = 112 Hours $30,000 in additional cost / 112 Hours = $267.85 per hour Now ...

STL, My understanding, and Nark correct me if I'm wrong, is that soldiers are allowed to refuse an order if it is illegal. If these two clowns really thought the war was illegal they should have refused their delpoyment and stuck around to deal with the consequences. They signed up for the military....

One thing I noticed watching the video is that when the RCMP officers surround the guy and his back is to the camera (which is right beofre they fire the taser), you can't really see anything below his elbows becasue the counter is blocking the shot...he could have had his hands balled up into fists...

Swede, I just couldn't resist.

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First off let me say to Nark...keep safe. I've had family in Bosnia and Afghanistan over the years and a few have had some close calls. let me put out a scenario to those of you who say Iran is only being percieved as a threat because GWB is telling us they are a threat...imagine your next door neig...

I have to agree with Niss and BMC. I understand that people with disabilities have an urge to feel normal and where ever possible we should help them to do this but they also need to realize that that they do have limits. Personally, I was born with out the part of the body that gives humans rythm s...

I just saw this thread last night and wrote Mr. Fiorito today. I tried to stay level headed in my letter and in return I seem to have received a relatively level headed response. I still don't agree with him but in the spirit of fairness I felt I should post his reply. here is what I wrote: Dear Mr....

In high school I worked at Toronto Airways and we had a student who had more money than brains. He would never draw a line on a map, would always program his cross country into his handheld gps. This worked okay for him right until the flight test. He goes into the ground briefing and the examiner a...

Swede, quick question, if you don't mind me asking. What does full time paranoia pay? Do you get benefits as well?

"I will not volunteer what I think are causing these," CID...based on Swede's history of posts...ie conspiracies for damn near everything...and considering the above quote, I don't think it was too much of a jump for niss to make the assumption that he did. As for credibility and respect, comments l...

Widow, I went through the process of a seeing TSB investigation when an instructor at the flight school where I worked was killed in a training accident. The initial reports are just that....initial. Once more information is obtained the view of the accident can chage dramatically. Changes in subseq...

Widow, I understand that you feel the investigation into the accident that killed your husband and several others was not adequate. I would even go so far as to say, based on what you've posted and what I have read, the accident was probably a case of poor maintenance and pilot error. I read your co...

My Personal Favourite Security Story: First the background...when I was 11 I shattered my arm, and by shattered I mean broken in four places with the bone sticking out of one spot. To repair the break took 12 screws and 2 metal plates, all still a part of me. To get this hardware in obviously took a...

Widow,

I don't always agree with what you post but I can usually respect what you post because it's at least well thought out and you cleary firmly believe in what you are trying to accomplish, but with all due respect, and I do mean that, what the "effing" hell is the point of posting this story!?

I have life insurance with State Farm and as a pilot who just flys recreationally I pay 18 a month instead of 16.50 or soemthing like that. provided you tell them up front they should be able to work out something that will cover you.

While not overly religious myself, I can respect people who's faith is a major part of their lives. I did not see the "offending post" however, lets be honest, God must have a sense of humour. Look at the following: The Tampa Bay Devil Rays 2 terms for George Bush Swede taking paranoia to the point ...

Has anyone crashed an airliner vertically into the ground before? Who's to say what the debris field would look like. If they had a heavy load of fuel the impact may have caused an explosion that spread the debris. Unless you have a side job as an accident investigator I don't think you can say for ...

Swede,

You give me enough people and enough chaos I'll come up with a dozen people who swear they saw you giving a circus elephant hummer on the pitcher's mound at Yankee Stadium.

Eyewitness reports are notriously unreliable.

And yes I did read 1984.

Perhaps I could have worded my last post better. I meant work with widow andthe regulators instead of being very confrontational with the regulators.

Cat, Just so you and I are on the same page...I did not mean anything in this thread to be a personal attack so I hope it didn't come acorss that way and if it did I sincerely apologize...I don't blame you for being bitter...I'm just frustrated because I think that all of the knowledge and experienc...

Cat, At no point before nor do I now think you are a threat to aviation...in fact, just the opposite. You have seen and experienced more in this industry than most if not everyone on this board. You now what works and what's required to improve saftey. All I am trying to say is if you tone down your...

Snaproll, I'm not saying that Cat doesn't have the right to be bitter. If I had been through the financial crunch he was subjected to I would be bitter too, I'm sure. All meant was that if he really wants to see change he may need to consider approaching the situation with out the chip on his should...

Just a quick question for everyone. A lot of people here and Cat Driver in particular seem to always say that TC never goes after corrupt operators . However as soon as we see posts about TC going into audit a company like Skyward and eventually shutting them down every starts crying that TC is pick...

Swede,

I bet I could use grainy video spliced together to prove that you're a douchebag....which is actually true but I think you get my point.

Corporate Joe,

They did a lot of other work as well so it was in the paint shop for 5 1/2 weeks. The actual painting itself took about 2 1/2 or three weeks.