someone’s parking spot

No, it was the main apron, for club and visiting airplanes, but, I still asked, in case it was an assigned club plane spot.

Wat would it cost for a company to engineer a fix ( Make the forward door fixed and increase the aft door and put a handle on it ) $10-$15000 ? Is TC too anal to fast track approval of a companies aft door mod kit ? Will Cessna be trying to prevent this kind of mod? Well, let's take this step by st...

So I'm just a little miffed at someone; I flew to one of our well known GA airports yesterday, to test fly a client's plane. The DOM at the airport knew I was coming. It was cold! So when I parked on the apron for the better part of the day, I chose a spot with an extension cord present, then before...

Certain parts may be "made" in accordance with the proper data. That's the standard which allows you to replace a skin from stock aluminum sheet, rather buying a skin from the manufacturer. In the case of Cessna, they generally tell you what material to use, so that gets you pretty well down the roa...

An important element, and one the pilot can easily accomplish, is to make sure everything you control does what it is supposed to do, the way it's supposed to do it. As a part of this, most flight manuals provide at lease some system descriptions. It is your responsibility to be familiar with operat...

I can't imagine ruddering a plane around at all, much less in an emergency, has any merit. If it were a good idea, it would be a) trained in flight training, and b) described in the emergency procedures section of flight manuals. Cross controlling a plane adds drag, and decreases stability. If you'r...

One of my mentors has been my now retired Fire Chief. In my capacity as a firefighter, I was one of the people who cut him out of his crushed pickup truck in year 2000. He was the better part of a year before he was back in action with us. The mentoring was not only all the fire stuff over the years...

I had this happen to me, and I just covered for the guy, flew single pilot and didn't tell anybody. Me too.. I was young and naive. Timmins to Thunder Bay on night. He was just doubled over with food poisoning. I asked him if he wanted to go back. He asked me if I was okay to continue to T Bay, and...

Pro spin controls should not be maintained in order to allow a full spin to develop as this is negative training. Agreed. I've had a few types surprise me by needing an asserted recovery, where previous spins seemed comparatively benign. During demonstration of compliance for spin recovery, the sta...

Like a conversation in the clubhouse, not everything one has to say will be heard, or perhaps even welcomed by everyone. If the majority of what people contribute here is positively received, and helps to generate interest in aviation, and promote safety, it was, on the whole, a success. The bits th...

Yeah, I think their system is flawed, and I do not have confidence in it. Even amber alerts, though important in some locales, are not important to me at home (I live on the edge on nowhere, on a dead end road). I'm not going to jump into my car, and drive out to the highway, in the hope of randomly...

I'm not a lawyer, though I have been exposed to accidents. injury and claims to insurance companies. Certainly, get legal advice before you sign, that's always fair. Before that, I'd simply ask the manager of the flying school to explain the whole document to you line by line. One of three things wi...

It does seem like TC may be overly strict in their requirements for some simple items such as LED lights, especially in light of the fact that the FAA may have more lax requirements, but it is the system we have. Perhaps this is something COPA and it's members can help fight for? It's not that TC i...

I asked, they did not recall, other than to say it was not the shape of a tree....

A new years party guest this evening had a grandfather who was a long ago, far north bush pilot. It was found after his passing, that he had two cookie cutters in his emergency survival kit. I was asked why I thought they would be in the kit, and I can't think of a reason, can anyone else? I'm told ...

Just as a reminder, the person signing on the installation must have approved data which is the evidence that design compliance has been shown. I know that it's troublesome that approved data is required, but that's the cost to operate a certified plane. Some product manufacturers prefer to not subm...

Any substantial amount of float flying will be very appreciated in your piloting skills, as you will have refined your hands and feet skills very well, and more importantly will have developed very good decision making skills. You will also learn dock, and "there's no job too small" work ethics, whi...

My learned contact tells me that the end blew out of a 6 foot diameter autoclave, and went out through a wall, injuring 11 people, taking out the nitrogen line, the wall of the building, and some parked cars. My thoughts go to the injured people, who likely, very literally, had no idea what hit them...

I admit it, this happened to me last week flying a Caravan, "Hmmm... not climbing as well as I should be... Ah, the power lever crept back a bit" - power restored, friction reset, no problem. The turbine is a little more subtle rolling itself back than a piston, though I would hope that a pilot woul...

You probably have more consistent nice weather flying days in Saskatoon than Vancouver. Don't let the cold worry you, as long as you dress for it. In the winter, a cold, bright winter day is much nicer for flying than a day close to freezing. Flying in -25C is no problem, as long as you are prepared...

Maybe he meant to apply 20 degrees of flap, but held the button in and it went to 40? I doubt it. The amount of flap lever travel between 20 and 40 is very apparent to the pilot. 10 to 20 can be mistaken, but 20 to 40 is pretty obvious. And, had the pilot made that error, it can be immediately corr...

I am aware that in other countries, Caravan, King Air and Twin Otter are endorsed on the license, so obviously, they have other rules. It's not an entirely bad idea, just a lot of paperwork. On a helicopter license in Canada, every type is endorsed. When I got my PPLH, it came with the type I flew m...

One has to wonder if any "incident(s)" have ever occurred during a flight test in Canada,

Yes.

I don’t believe there’s anything legally preventing you from flying any under 12,566 lbs This is my understanding too. I'm sure a quick search of the CAR standards would provide a certain answer. Interestingly, when my license was issued, it was the 4000 pound weight limit. I was thus type endorsed...

One of the places which provides the reference you're looking for can be found: § 3.778 Operating limitations— ........... (e) Maneuvers. All authorized maneuvers and the appropriate air-speed limitations as well as all unauthorized maneuvers shall be included in accordance with the following: (1) N...