Discerning for intent of the cockpit question (did U cut off) , hinges on whether or not the ‘answering pilot’ responded honestly or deceitfully. Claiming it was the latter’ that it must be suicide, firstly also requires investigative responsibility in determining for certain it wasn’t valiant reli...

You have no fuckin clue what you are talking about. Have you been in the military? Have you dealt with them at least? Overhead breaks, formation flying, low approaches, PARs, circuits, etc etc, all fitted in, most at the same time. NAV Canada controllers barely hold a candle to their training. With...

I don't have an answer for you, but if it was me I would just say "yes I need to do a run up... where should I do it?" and punt the issue back to Ground. If a controller gets mad at you for needing a runup, but there is no guidance on this matter in the CFS, ATIS, or when receiving taxi instructions...

DingDingDing wrote: ↑Mon Aug 11, 2025 5:52 pm Watch this space.

More info is coming soon! And it is bad news for the defendants!

We all keep refreshing with disappointment.

I would never feel "safe" being at a hard cap altitude. OK what are you going to do then, fly at 100 feet over the river? It's a rock and a hard place, which is why this wasn't a viable helicopter route. If you still have to see and avoid, why complicate everything with a very low altitude cap? The...

The helicopter being above above max altitude is such a red herring. If the difference between 200 and 300 feet is death, it was never a viable helicopter route. It's not a cruising altitude of 200'. It's a hard cap altitude. I get that, but 100 feet is not separation. There needs to be a buffer, l...

The helicopter being above above max altitude is such a red herring.

If the difference between 200 and 300 feet is death, it was never a viable helicopter route.

Thank you for posting your story.

Daryl sounds like a special person and a good friend.

When was back in the day? With the exception of COVID, traffic has generally gone up year over year. Meanwhile the number of rules ATC has to follow has gone up, and the number of controllers has been steady or gone down. There is only so much pavement (06R/24L was completed over 2 decades ago) and ...

It's not completely off the table some day in the future, but for now, no.

I don't think the company has any desire to put all the resources required into training an employee, and only getting half an employee. They can't catch up to required staffing as it is.

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When being cleared to land give the pilot the full runway length unless the controller gives additional instructions, such as land short if able, or something else, What would happen if your brakes failed on landing and the controller positioned an aircraft for take off midway down the runway, Land...

It's been in place for a few years now at the international airport in Hungary: https://www.atc-network.com/atc-news/searidge-technologies/searidge-remote-tower-technology-certified-for-live-operations-at-budapest-airport That article is from 2017, and I can find nothing more substantial or recent ...

It appears YYR still has a BC to RWY 26.

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While I agree the airport layout of YHM and its traffic mix is not conducive to FSS only service (I think it's high time they build a full length parallel taxiway), there are ways to mitigate the loss of ATC service, while keeping things moving safely. I'm sure it could be mitigated and made genera...

Why isn't Hamilton (YHM) on the LOS list? They haven't had over 40,000 movements since 2010, and those movements are spread over a 24 hour period (YHM is open 24 hours). Sudbury (YSB) has just as many movements, but the vast majority are during 0600-2200, so there's just as many movements as YHM bu...

TSB report is now out for a very similar incident at YYZ.

https://tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/ ... o0117.html

If the controller was annoyed, that suggests to me he thought you intended to do a full stop the whole time. It is not uncommon that a pilot is cleared to land then does a touch and go (or vice-versa), without ever communicating that was their intent. I suspect it was not apparent to the controller ...

When landing in YYZ on RWY 05 in the Dash-8 during my Jazz days, the controllers frequently gave the landing clearance as "Jazz 123, cleared to land RWY 05, long landing approved." As a former controller trainee, I wonder what would happen if there was a runway over-run. Even though almost every Da...

Well done. Not sure how the original design was ever considered acceptable.