…so one day airliners will be so automated, the cockpit will be empty except for two buttons: “fly” and “don’t fly”. And there will be a crash because someone presses the “don’t fly” button.

I think what they are trying to do is laudable. I don’t know if their goals are realistic, given that there are already Unions, and there is the Honourable Guild of Air Pilots (formerly the Honourable Guild of Air Navigators, but considering most pilots trained after the year 2000 can’t actually nav...

Meanwhile in Europe, the majority will get hired on 737 and 320 with only 100PIC. With a much more diverse and busy airspace. And the news aren't flooded with crashes due to "lack of experience" of these entitled FOs. But yes, do a road trip, go paint some fences, make Buffalo Joe happy. The Canadi...

I’m a Canadian, not an American. Asking me if I would vote to become an American is like asking a Belgian if he’d like to become a Frenchman, or a Finn if he’d like to be Estonian. It’s an absurd question. Canada disappoints me at the moment and I’m uneasy about what happens next. But I don’t feel a...

AngryWJPilot wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2024 4:51 pm - Imagine being an FO and you have to fly with a Captain? Seems fair right?

Once you edit the whining out, it’s easier to read.

I agree. Get rid of that stupid sub-forum. Nobody cares about COVID anymore anyway, and having a forum on the subject is just functioning as a petri dish in which the stupidest among us try to reproduce with themselves to no avail. It's embarassing.

Entertainment is the only remaining purpose of this antiquated forum. I stand by my use of colourful pronouns, expletives, and epithets. It is very funny when one is responding to a thread about microscopic life-forms to make reference to the shameful continued existence on this site of a sub-forum ...

Capt. Underpants wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2024 12:24 pmGoogle is your friend, or do you believe that's only for "sheeple" too?

It was a Covid joke, you retard. Do you have to be so fuckin awkward?

I know a lot of my contemporaries loved doing fully developed spins in training. Of course it’s a benign manoeuvre in a properly balanced training aeroplane. I used to be secretly terrified of them. I used to think: whatever the plane is doing right now, it’s not flying. I don’t like being in a plan...

I don’t believe in fuel microbes. Wake up, sheeple

Thing to do when you live in a country like Canada, with their cumbersome and careless bureaucracies and self-indulgently lazy and ignorant civil servants, is to do what organized criminals do. Find a doctor who has lost his license for a drug problem, or a good veterinarian. Bribe them to help fix ...

I like mechanical watches, for sentimental reasons. Notwithstanding sentiment however, they are accurate enough to be practical, and for some people they provide some pleasure. In the early 20th century, a lot of brainpower was put into making a watch that was as accurate as a pocket watch but could...

itsgrosswhatinet wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:39 am

Meatservo wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 10:01 pm
It would be a heck of an experience.

Flying the thing would be an experience. Sitting in a simulator reading emergency checklists isn't worth the bragging rights that will come with an asterisk.

Says you, Coolio. Lots of people think things are cool that you don’t.

Funny anyone would wonder why a guy might want this.

$20,000 is a lot of money, but Rolex doesn’t have any trouble whatsoever getting people to shell out the same or more for an obsolete, relatively inaccurate timepiece made out of base materials.

It would be a heck of an experience.

If it flew for 20 mins with nobody in it, it was far better rigged than every small airplane I’ve flown. Too bad it wasn’t rigged just a little bit better. It could have circled up and to the left under torque, and then after running out of fuel, glided down in a slight right turn and landed right ...

" Severely" increases the PM's workload" Give me a break. "Severe"? Like he's got to look up from texting his hookups in town to make some standard calls, twiddle a couple knobs on the MCP a few times and put the gear down? I think people should be hand-flying approaches now and then. If being terri...

How is the window shattering at 140 relevant? Vne is 144 Maybe they meant knots, which would be 165 mph or so. I wish people would stop using statute miles in aviation. Also I thought VMo in a PT6 Otter was 118 knots. They stick a red line at the bottom of the old yellow arc. Or at least they used ...

Transport Canada is actually doing something? I wouldn’t be worried about being sued. It’s inconceivable they would be able to file the papers by the deadline.

Hey, wait. I've got a new complaint. I am aware of the march of time and progress and blah blah blah. But I just want to say, this one time, that the drones and the drone people piss me off. The reason they piss me off is because I used to have a relaxing hobby. I was never a fanatic, but once in a ...

You'd think they were describing an accident that occurred on an ILS approach at 200 ft... I can't tell from your comment whether or not you have experienced how driven snow in Arctic conditions behaves. It's difficult to picture if you haven't seen it. It can be utterly transparent from any viewin...

You guys should check out some of the job openings at the TSB. I hear they're looking for someone to work out who keeps stealing lunches from the staff-room 'fridge.

the other didn't fly at all after his PPC. That doesn’t make sense, training is too expensive for them to not try and get a return on it. Sure it does. It's a move that's as old as time. It's called "stealing a PPC". You get that all-important first job, quit when you get a PPC and then spend time ...

Roundel Randy wrote: ↑Sun Dec 10, 2023 8:09 pm
Sometimes I don't understand why being in opposition means you have to oppose everything the government does, instead of just supporting them when they actually make a sensible decision.

That's basically the problem with politics, in a nutshell.

DanWEC wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 10:18 pm I have never, ever, ever, had someone come up to me and say "Pilot eh? I've heard that's really easy to do."

I'm not calling you out, but I actually have. It's annoying.

I'm at year 5 of commercial flying, and will see just over 100k base salary next year. I'm curious to know how long it took you to reach the 6 figure milestone in aviation. Some of us asked ourselves that question in 1986 , after more than 15 years as a professional pilot This is what makes this co...