Giles, yes I know of around a dozen who work in Australia as foreign workers for the summer on Ag or Fire work. That's just the ones I know. I'm not talking about airline flying, charter work or Tim Hortens employees. The agricultural season is short in Canada and goes for around 3 months, there are...

Nacho, a lot of Canadians go to Australia both for Ag work and fire work, fixed wing and chopper. It is a very similar process for both countries. Several people have made such insinuations but can we have proof, details, numbers, statistics etc ? Just vague claims and insinuations just wont cut it...

Nacho, a lot of Canadians go to Australia both for Ag work and fire work, fixed wing and chopper. It is a very similar process for both countries.

Indanao, Australian pilots have an Australian Ag rating which is more involved and more hours than the Canadian training.

To be insured Ag you have to have done a recognised Ag rating, Batairspray are one of those who do them.

Gauges all over the place like a cranky woman's excreta.

NEVER leave your hemorrhoid cream in the same draw as your toothpaste.

So some of you suggest all the Canadian pilots who go to Australia for the Summer should not be allowed to go?

Not a twin but how big are the camera hatch's in Beavers? Vague memory of around 20" mebe bigger?

182, good load, easy handling, good cruise speed. Will do 95% of anything a tailwheel will do. Contrary to what some say WILL work out of short rough strips.

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Since when is a Challenger a "Small plane"?

Couple of old bombs, have never seen an XLV in Canada but have seen a couple of XT's

Ground effect is actually better on a low wing aircraft, you get more cusion because the wing is closer. Just the same as the higher you are the less ground effect you have until about a wingspan were it disapears. The more ground effect the slower you can go. That becomes a problem when the aileron...

The fore . to the Pac750 the Fletcher is a pretty good short field performer as well. Powered by a 720 lycoming it could out perform a Beaver on most strips. As an Ag aircraft the Fletcher could get 1200 kilo's of fertiliser off in 350 metres at seal level, usually carry a 950 kilo load off a 700 me...

photofly wrote:I'm sure circuit altitude should be 1321 feet 6.2498 inches.

Who are we kidding here?

Don't encourage the pedants

The French speaking on the radio is not just limited to Quebec, I heard it from the East right to the middle of the country. Admittedly not much in the Prairies but there was still an odd call. In Quebec when there are 5 or 6 aircraft inbound and in the circuit with 3 or so speaking French tends to ...

Power settings? Type of miss? Change of supply of fuel? Been wet and very humid lately? How old the plugs? How many hours on the engine? Did they use old mag/plug leads when rebuilt? How log since the mags were looked at? What's the oil burn? Has it got an auto carb? If not how do you set the mixtur...

I'm too modest

A346Dude wrote:Looks photoshopped to me. The plane is a little too big compared to the size of the person.

It's a big aircraft, 58 foot span and loaded 16000lbs+

Pretty stupid thing to do with a million dollar plus aircraft, come to think of it that would be pretty stupid with a $30,000 Pawnee.

The only UAV's that work well are the multi million dollar military machinery. The bulk of what is trying to be sold is not much better than very cheap hobbyist stuff. As for using them for AG it's just impractical. You could but who is going to pay millions over and above the cost of a million doll...

Interesting when the Rail boss first commented he stated it was the employees fault, I'm sure it was only a day or so after the accident. You would think there would need to be some fairly thorough investigation before any blame?

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An example of operating out of the envelope would be Beavers on AG work, they have been flying at between 6000 and 6500 pounds for over 40 years. There have been accidents mostly pilot error with a few structural. Structural problems (2 aircraft as far as I know in the early 60's) were the early fai...