I sat down and was going to give a opinion on what I thought or believed could have been possible causes. I thought about it for a while and when the time came I just couldnt bring myself to even express those opinions. As we are all well aware it could be one of many reasons and I am not even remo...

My crash and burn avatar does reflect my aviation career, but only in connection with my dismal attempts at relationships with women. But I would never claim to have never made a mistake or scratched an airplane. Also since my license doesn't also say M1 or M2 I also wouldn't be the one to decide ho...

Ya sorry I was pretty mad and I meant to say accident not crash. I still stand by my comment. If you are a high time bush Pilot, and you haven't holed a float on a log or rock, got some greenery on a rotor, tore a tail ski off or broke a ski or station 60 a twin...the list goes on and on then that m...

Ever have the sun in your eyes through an aircraft windshield? How well do unmarked powerlines show up in the twilight of the early morning? With a long line do you always look ahead or divide your time between what's in front or what's under you? Leave the pilot alone. There are two kinds of bush p...

I'll second that. Time to put that old piece of Pratt propaganda to bed. The Garrett is a very robust engine especially the -10 and 12 engines. A better stateent would be that turbine engines are delicate, which they are. They are certainly not designed to injest small mammals no matter what their d...

Also according to Harzell anything bigger than 1/32 of an inch (if you can catch a fingernail on it) constitues damage requiring maintenance (prop dressing) and NTD "recommended". Prior to the fall of this year it was not being enforced by TC but times are changing. Welcome to the sue me world of li...

SMS won't save them if they knew they hit the lights and took off. That constitutes a deliberate violation of the CARs and you lose your get out of jail free card.

You have no option to stop and look for damage. You are legally required to. If this flight crew knew they hit a runway light on take off, and then continued this flight without inspection then they are going to be on the very dirty end of a Transport Canada beating stick. If they are reading this t...

First of all you have to have a pretty rich daddy to buy enough hours in a Beaver to get you by an operators insurance policy, 5 hours is usless, save your money and get 25 hours on a cub or 170. You need to learn how to get a plane off the water, thats whats important. The less power the better for...