Jeta1....just so you know, if you ever crash and die, ill make sure to post on here the root cause of your mistake so your wife, kids and friends can read about it.

Yes, I think once you got used to them, flap 30 departures wouldn't be a big deal. Pretty simple proc for engine failure below vmc too: power back and land straight ahead. Easy to say, hard to do. Thats mostly what the stol training consists of, I think.

I don't see where a flap 30 takeoff would be much more challenging than 20 once you had done a few of them. The flap handle has to be moved once more, to 20, from there on it would be the same as a 20 departure. The risk involved is that your going into the air way below Vmc, and you need to stay in...

This is a scary poll. Im pretty sure its skewed in the yes direction by some demographic not present in the working pilot world. Two things...Its a lot easier to tell if your capt or Fo is hungover than it is to tell he or shes a bit stoned, or affected by something else. Also, its harder for them t...

So? How did it go?

+1 for 5x5. I just looked at the GFA expecting to demonstrate that 9500 prob wont work, but today it doesnt look like an etch a sketch. However, the number of days you ll be able to actually do VRF at all at 9500 on that leg the whole way are prob few. Just remember on your test that diverting a bit...

Yes, intercepting from above isnt a good idea for a few reasons. The long straight in seems like about the best bet for me for this hypothetical really bad day. Im curious to hear your plan. That is, as long as its not one that would require super human skills to pull off. After all, if this happene...

O boy....I can hardly wait to hear cs s escape from certain mooney death. My best plan would be a very long, straight in high speed (power up, clean) ILS, followed by a flaps up landing....straight in from above the tops tho would mean about thirty miles tho. If you were really on mb you could make ...

I ve heard in some countries use of autofeather is considered unmanly. ...Id say we re not doing too bad. I handfly some times, helps to remind me how to do it. I prob wouldnt risk it in a ride tho.

I was always taught cold starting was about the worst thing you could do to a piston engine. A good preheat only takes a few hours of planning ahead....

What you said. Plus your expected to be able to have an engine failure and keep flying.

Unless that last job has a lot of variety and potential for learning new stuff, I hope it takes me longer than that.

I was just pointing out that salary wont always mean you get a fat check and never have to do anything but cruise into work and go fly. I dont see anything wrong with earning your salary by helping out a bit when theres no flying. If your on salary for Buffalo Joe though, for example.....you might f...

Kay, Meatservo. Since your on salary and therefore are a respected, professional part of the team, you wont mind if your respectfully and professionaly called in whenever theres no flying to clean aircraft, work around the office, shovel snow, etc...after all, your getting paid anyway, and its all h...

Cause hitting the first quarter would be asking way too much?

This is a big hole in the training we get. There seems to be a reluctance to give a student a failure when he doesnt have any nice happy landing options. I had very good training, but still, such a failure was only mentioned once or twice at the very start. Much later, after ppl,cpl, i was getting c...

Yup. Practice every chance you get too. Try to make every touchdown and rollout perfect, because one day you might have to. If I flew once every two weeks and had 150 hrs Id probably have thought something like "well i could try for the road, but if i f it up, it ll be really ugly, we might die. I k...

Good question. I suppose most companys dont go out of thier way to disseminate info outside the company since if your fourth rate you wouldnt, and if your a solid company anyone who cares to ask around a bit can find out easily enough.

Good post pilotdar. This has been enlightening. Until I read this thread I assumed most folks on avcanada at least had flown a 172...guess not.

Ooh oooh! Ive got some more wisdom re landing in deep snow covered feilds! Dont do it unless you have skis or you ll flip over! I saw a video about it recently!

Dont do airwork at all. Between first solo and commercial I took passengers along for things like steep turns and stalls. Not deliberatly scaring them, but now having flown passengers as a job I cant believe I did. Id have been very justifiably fired. If airwork is still even mildly interesting to y...

Im gonna get flamed for this but....there are be pilots out there who have put up with pushiness so much in the past, and gotten so accustomed to being put upon and ripped off that when one of the jobs that Beef is reffering to comes thier way they screw it up by having thier back up before anything...

Seems to me this has the potential to be one of the most educational and interesting threads on av Canada. Mb there should be a forum called "I did this and don't want to tell anyone I know about it, so ill tell avcanada"

Strictly limited to flying anecdotes of course

What keeps this one in my head is how nobody thought to mention it in my training, even though I had better than average and more thorough training than most during the earlier part of my career. Maybe it's because no one imagines how hard a young pilot will push the weather. I was trying to cut a f...

I wont speculate on the recent accident for the same reasons as lost lake. Also, this whole thing has made it too easy for me to imagine how horrible it would be to be recovering inhospital, or to be a family member of someone who has died in a crash, and read even some of the milder things said on ...