back in the day DH a couple of twins for the Brits DHC 310 with aileron spoilers and beta approach a Green light indicated your angle of prop 9 degree i recall the DH Buffalo DHC 5A the military Buff MTOW is 43000 and has a PCU prop control unit that is highly sophisticated with a approach beta sele...

well this has been a good discussion on stay or go! i made the the go choice and have never been happier Aviation in canada has gone down the toilet since the millennium I have not seen a raise in pay in 20 years I found a nice south american country that has bullshit beyond believe and it it is sti...

AuxBatOn thats Cessna shit that it on your check list when you started! A Military aviator that been handed to do what Forrest Gump said! Ill do what ever you tell me what to do Your Flying/ Military career have no connection with civilian Aviators Your career is almost geared to being a astronaut i...

people now adays that are successful in aviation and living the dream have no children career first and family don't matter, they are selfish, I know plenty of women and men that are successful and have no family, most have dogs and in my opinion it is the norm and its hard when you are on the other...

hello Ian, Nope no cargo stuff I sell my soul to the devils, Contract bs, the buffs went back to the dark continent Back in the 80s, I went to the Belgian air museum in Brussels and they had a bunch of radical engines on display from the second war. I was not a AC fix nut then but I remember the stu...

Hello Ian Is that a smoke or a eddy in the pic probably a pistola Ha! this is one hell of a venture your on 24 cyl H Oh my god its the Holy Grail of Engines You may want to CNC it if you have the data! Sleeve valves are a better way of making power but are unreliable 1 hour of flight 4 hours of main...

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It is a tough nut to crack I have been trying for over 4 years even with a type course and no luck. I have over 20 years fixed wing experience from single piston, high performance piston twins, single turboprops, twin turboprops even the dh planes that get the fuel to the helos and lots of time main...

dont do what airspray did in 1999 it was a very ugly situation

too late in the game the apprentices will kill you for advances in you career the motto is to sculpt the employees the young dog shit is available out of college and you are considered over the hill
i did at 35 an0 and it has not done me anything but cause grief
stick to your know how

this will ruin your life unless you have another way to make a liveng

It is a tough call doing a engine shut down because of hydraulics i was doing a flight from Cambridge Bay NU to Inuvik NWT we had had a hydraulic pump fail on a RD4-8 IT WAS NOT GOOD we lost all our oil and i considered pissing into the tank to get us to the nearest runway witch was Copper Mine NU 2...

well said snoopy and i have known joe since 1994 and he is the one that gets thing done no matter what !

Talk about off topic! At issue here isn't WHAT Joe is operating, it is HOW he is operating. Joe may be kind of a jerk, however he is a business person who has run that business for an awful long time. It's kind of funny the number of people on here who seem to think they know better how to run his ...

Hey P Richard you sound more like you talk than walk its ok! dont worry nobody couth or brains will work with you

A couple a years ago i was maintaining float planes in the yukon and on one particular trash back haul was a 100 litre fuel drum and it was marked Imperial oil. This was of great interest to me cause it only made sense to use them for fuel hauls in the bush flying business.We are racing to the botto...

YZF Ames with 10+ years in the business make 40 to 50 an hour + OT, dis air is not in this club but the majority of operators will pay good, 100g and up. The only problem i found was the more you make the more they want out of you and your shelf life is short you will burn out!

Huh these guys really think there something else landing a van in the alps Maybe they should watch a little ytube and look up DHC 5 buffalo prairie creek, we went in with 18000 and out all the time, God bless GE. & Hamilton standard. Borek probably has the best short landing, ytube DHC 6 Marys river...

I get bad vibes when i talk to AME rotor heads on this subject. It seems like there is a big wall around your industry, or is it a lack of work and security. I acquired a endorsement and have been trying to get into the medium machines part of the industry for about a year and no replies. Whats the ...

Wow! fancy words for dam cold. Polar Vortex, flash freeze everybody in the the news must of watched The Day After movie . The world has gone in to a deep freeze/ice age. Wind chill is BS. it only gives you bragging rights, Its like the media is trying to scare you to death. The coldest i ever felt w...

I build custom tool boxes for aviation maintenance Techs. min-able space for maxi tool placement of tools in a uniform way of seeing what is missing at the end of the day. It's a no brainer. These boxes are built with 2024 aluminum with A/C standards.Baggage handlers admire, rather than trash your r...

Is it possible to fly 12 hours in a normally configured A/C in Canada. This one brings on new appreciation on how big the country is. I miss her!

Definitely the loudest and awesome sounding air grinder on the planet. There are youtube videos with good fly bys

Old news! YCC workers were informed in feb last year that the cabin was going to be made in Wichita. As far as I know, the cockpit & wings are made in Victoria, fight controls Campbell river, tail boom I think is done by Found aircraft. vertical and horizontal stabs, I am not sure where they are mad...

There is no doubt that Luke fought his way to survive this situation. I Worked with him with borek at harbour air @ coal harbour/ richmond, and the guy had his shit together. if you cyber idiot's like to fantasize about what you think what went wrong,then you should get out of your cocoon and experi...