... they have a waiver from TC to write the full exams without the flight time and they do not need the 250 hours to obtain an SIC type rating. A waiver on a CPL? Last I checked (since I'm in that great "finished training with less than 250" club), the 250 is a hard minimum for First Officer in a T...

thanks to everyone for the advice! Do you suggest getting the INRAT out of the way or do that together when I actually do my Multi and MIFR? I'd suggest you don't want a whole lot more time than necessary between INRAT and serious training towards the IR. The because it's so procedural, the knowled...

So .... become one of those 100. That's great advice. Moving on to the world of pop music, anyone who wants a career as an A-list celebrity pop star, should become one of those. And in my latest self-help book, I give the following instruction to anyone who wants to be a successful Holywood movie s...

So if their instructors are the most valuable in this transaction and got paid lets say 10% of the total, 90% went to FTU. What is wrong with this picture? Those darn notoriously profitable FTUs. A lot of experienced fixed wing pilots would appreciate being home every night, too. And they would be ...

C-GKNT wrote:There was no question that one of those would be on board. Pascal was both the pilot of the MU-2 in question as well as the CEO of the company that produced that flight data recorder.

Agreed, that product is why I knew him. But they're not exactly hardened, so it's good to see it's intact.

This should help the investigative process along dramatically. Intercom, ambient noise, GPS position and accelerometers, and it looks intact. Hopefully it was working.

I doubt a well known owner of a specialized avionic shop with certified operators as clients, would be selling illegal 703 services to an ex-Transprort minister. Maybe they were buddies. Who knows. Owning an ATPL license doesn't mean experience. They were friends, family confirmed that today. Edit:...

Is this in the new iteration of the TERPS manual? The FAA orders 8260(various revisions) were previously used by "notice" from Transport Canada, however those were incorporated into the new TP-308 Change 6.0 - Volume 3 which came into affect either end of 2013 or mid-2014. That's how I understand i...

How can they sue Air Canada, Nav Canada and the Halifax airport all at the same time? If one of those defendants actually is liable, doesn't that sort of automatically exonerate the other two? :smt017 Step 1: sue everybody Step 2: hope somebody you sued hands you some usable evidence at discovery S...

How is the 320's Flight path angle on these approaches input? Manually? I'm unfamiliar with Airbus ops. The plate shows an FPA of 3.08 degrees. I'm hypothesizing that if the approach flight path angle for vertical guidance on the LOC is manually input, perhaps they input 3.8 accidentally instead of...

That's a good article. IMO, if you're teaching this stuff, you need to sit down with your students prior to beginning the training and having a frank discussion about the difference between being able to pass the flight test and being a safe, proficient IFR pilot. You really can't safely half-ass IF...

Student lending practices & regulations in the US make payday loan companies look like not-for-profit philanthropists. Kid going off to school for a degree gets a federally backed loan from Sallie Mae, pays interest all throughout their education, gets a crappy job upon graduation and defaults on th...

The part about racking up all the debt, working for a few years and then leaving the industry is something I know happens all the time, but I just don't understand the math. I know a lot of people who've left to do other things; some had real degrees and went to work in that field, some went to work...

I think you're trying to blame TC for accepting a number that you gave them, correct? EDIT -- I just took a quick look at the OCS for the little two C172 FTU here. What it says (and TC accepted): Unless you're talking about an approved FTOM, we're still not talking about the same requirements. If I...

Idea: when the wind is howling, instead of running away from it, take your instructors and fresh CPL's up and teach them to handle it. One of the regs we're required to comply with is 406.61. Standard 426.61(2)(i)(ii) requires a finite limit on cross-wind. As soon as that's a requirement, you're in...

Right there is why you shouldn't shut down an engine on a 4 cyl twin during multi training. They simply don't have the aircraft handling skills, if they can't even land a single in a crosswind. I do admire the spin in the above quote. Demonstrated crosswind is NOT an aircraft limitation! I have lan...

Thread drift -- but why do schools refuse to train even advanced students in less than perfect wx? I was at an airport today, where a school I am familiar with had "no flying" posted -- no dual or solo, on a perfectly good if sporty vfr day. Conditions were light rain, 3000 ft ceiling, some LL turb...

I'm kind of surprised a plastic airplane couldn't be restarted in flight. Maybe I'm just falsely assuming that plastic means new-ish which means everything works. Is there some sort of FADEC voodoo that would prevent a restart? LnS. If I take plastic literally, I thought they were also supposed to ...

What you described above is not a spin recovery. I think we may have a different idea what a "spin" is. A spin has 3 phases -The entry -The incipient phase -The fully developed phase Since we are talking about PPL training a good guide is the Cessna Aircraft Company booklet "Spin Characteristics of...

The spin and Vmc demos make for a good comparison on this subject, because they both exist as optional training elements. If we can ignore restrictions placed on the training because of aircraft limitations for a moment, I'm pro-spin and anti-Vmc. Largely because a) I can't do anything with the airc...