Been hit a few times. Once there were burn marks along the side of the aircraft. Another the lightning melted a lightning diverter strip on the radome. Each time no electrical problems occured but it sounded like a rifle going off in the cockpit. After a lighning strike there is supposed to be a mai...

Hey PnC, Try this link for the minimum requirements for the positions at First Air. http://www.firstair.ca/About_First_Air/Employment/index.html?_d=Flight%20Crew Only the crews in Iqaluit are rotational and it's only from Ottawa. Lots of people live elsewhere but commute to Ottawa before their rotat...

Well I had Sinus surgery a few years ago and the surgeon said I could go back to work in 2-3 weeks. I ended up having my medical about 2 weeks later and the MOT doctor wanted much longer. I was off about 5 weeks or so before I headed back to work. Need to make sure everything is healed up before you...

Currently they are doing interviews. Not really for any specific aircraft but there may be potential openings on the ATR, Herc and 737 soon. They just did some hiring for the ATR and Herc recently. Right now the Iqaluit rotation is only thru Ottawa but you never know that could change. They have abo...

From what I've heard the Antonov should be arriving within a week to begin it's work to the mines.

Also, it's not the big ones. It's an AN-12 that's coming in. Should be unique just the same.

Actually there are lots of airlines in Canada, large and small, that have been around for more than 10 years. Just to name a few: Air Creebec - 24 years Air Inuit - 28 years Air Labrador - 58 years Air North - 29 years Air Tindi - 18 years Baxter Aviation - 21 years Bearskin - 43 years Calm Air - 44...

Freezing fog is different than ice crystals. Freezing fog is supercooled fog and with cause ice on surfaces that it comes in contact with (just like freezing rain). If you flew through it you'd be picking up ice so you'd need engine and probably wing de-icing/anti-icing systems operating. Ice crysta...

Actually you can see the new tail design on their webite.
http://www.firstair.ca
Not too bad at all. It will be interesting to see what else they come up with on their aircrafts.

Doesn't look too bad from what you can see from the picture. I'd like to see it myself though.

I also heard that First Air was awarded the food mail contract. Nothing officially seen yet though.

HHHMMM, you were sure making it sound like there would be NO 727's flying anymore. I was just pointing out that First Air has more than 727-100's flying. Real nice WW, why would you say that about XFA? Kind of a rude comment to make. It seems to do fine for them. Sure is flying a lot and not just on...

I can't see any lay-offs at First Air with contract pilots coming in. I think the only lay-offs will be F/E's because of the replacement of the 727. The S/O's will luckly get positions flying fairly soon as movement seems to be happening. As for the none 727's flying like WaterWings stated. There ar...

Eventually there will be lay-offs on the 727 due to the fact they are going to be replaced so that means there is not position for the F/E's. It's very unfortunate that they will not be able to comtinue their career but it's the econmics of the times.......the disappearing of 3 crew aircraft. Hopefu...

Nothing yet. I've heard it will be a few more months yet before anyone hears.

They do have a new website up and running now. Much better than the old one.

You are right. For a single engine approach, it is a flap 15 landing. The speed is a fair bit faster than say a flap 30 or 40 landing but it also depends on your weight. Generally the Vref speeds for a flap 30 or 40 landing are about 110 to 135knots for weights of 75 000 to 105 000lbs. Landing at fl...

A one engine inoperative landing with a 737 is performed with flap 15. You do the approach at Vref 15 plus 5 knots.

Is the (name omtted)........Leblanc?
Maybe this is the new airline. Propsgo?

Well what ever your beliefs are, there still is a man who is dying or has passed on. I think some respect should be prudent.

102.9 now in YZF!
Good thing there it's not far to drive for anything............unless you want to leave town (then it'll get really expensive).

Haven't heard anything about the Dash-7 coming back online lately but anything can happen very quickly in this industry. It was a government contract with the governments Dash-7 for ice patrol. It sounded like a nice job, two weeks on two weeks off, you could live anywhere, flying out of Resolute Ba...

As for the 757, it was looked at for a replacement for the 727 combi's but I'm not too sure what is happening with that lately. The 767 or another widebody aircraft will be a dedicated cargo aircraft to replace the 727 freighter. If they do get it, maybe they'll get some overseas work again but I do...

First Air is an excellent airline to work for. As with any company it has it's problems but all-in-all there are a lot of positives. As for the S/O position it still officially hasn't changed from 300hrs but I do know that they do look for at least 1500hrs. This is because they think it would be eas...