7ECA wrote:Amphib - ious

True 'dat. I was trying to be a little accommodating.

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Yes it would be risky if I were to take a passenger flying and something happened and I wrecked the airplane because of liability insurance wise.

Some guy posting as . . on another forum agrees with my statement.

Amfib.

Co-joe, I don't know if you were trying to be funny but buying brand new airplanes doesn't prevent teething pains of introducing new aircraft types. Have you not been reading the news? 787s have maintenance issues requiring diversions too. And how about weeks of fleet groundings for battery fixes an...

I don't hold any type of pilot license anymore. Would that make me dangerous to fly with? In the circumstances being discusse, absolutely. If you were to make a smoking hole regardless of the cause, there would be no insurance to cover my losses. Liability is a fundamental expectation when paying f...

I agree that the TC website is a nightmare to navigate compared to the FAA RGL. Not only is it ridiculous to search for a regulation which is now buried in the DOJ full document, it's impossible to find old versions of regulations and standards in most cases. I wish TCCA would settle the silly langu...

Westjet is a well established airline that is also well respected. A few growing pains is normal when you introduce new equipment and/or new routes and they've really done a good job when you compare to similar adventures of other well established and well respected airlines.

This is exactly why the SMS fantasy of a zero incident utopia will never happen. Because the world is full of stupid people.. That's not an accurate description of SMS which basically places the responsibility on the operator to maintain a culture of safety as well as maintaining a safe operation. ...

Kind of sounds like Hydro One.

1. Newspapers are dying and they struggle to remain popular if not relevant. 2. Airshows are the largely military masturbation with a side of recruitment and the risk isn't worth the fuss. Any impressive noise usually comes from the US air-force, the ultimate in military masturbation cloaked in phon...

Not having a TSO doesn't disqualify a radio from being installed in an airplane. It disqualifies it from being installed without an STC.

And of course it still must be qualified to the coressponding standards.

Let's begin with the simple definition of "noise floor": In signal theory, the noise floor is the measure of the signal created from the sum of all the noise sources and unwanted signals within a measurement system, where noise is defined as any signal other than the one being monitored. Typical sou...

The redundancy is in the different systems, different frequencies, different satellite constellations and different receivers. You can blast "noise" on the GPS system frequencies, but Galileo and GLONASS will be unaffected. The differences aren't as vast as you imply. And even if they were, if one ...

Because a signal is below the noise floor doesn't mean you can't pull it out of it. Integrating the signal, for one technique, will increase the signal to noise ratio. In fact, some systems purposely make the signal weaker than the noise. Thats not the way receivers work. Receivers adjust their gai...

Satellite based navigation is the future. NDBs are 1920s technology; and without a GPS, require a archaic procedure turn! Extremely wasteful. "Don't worry guys, we have to fly 10 miles away from the airport before we can turn around and land. I can't wait until the day when we, in Canada, have a GP...

GPS is almost ridiculously easily to jam over large areas deliberately if you know what you're doing. It's very difficult to disrupt GPS navigation if you aren't trying to do it deliberately.

I have an interesting story about "common sense". Years ago I found a Flight Safety checklist in a Chieftain. It belonged to one of the pilots who informed me that it's the one he uses because the company one was garbage. I pointed out that the front cover said "TRAINING CHECKLIST - FOR TRAINING PUR...

I liked the smell of that zinc chromate putty and bees wax. You can't use zinc chromate tape anymore and conformal coating replaced bees wax for protection against the elements so now all that's left is the MEK buzz but they want to take that away now!

I suggest nothing. I urge you, (and everyone else reading) to consider the following and draw your own conclusion; The crew of Swiss Air 101 followed their checklists to a T. They and their passengers are now dead. The Herc driver in the article I referenced used his own judgement of the situation ...

it seems that some are trying to keep alive the romantic notion of flying in the clouds in an open cockpit wearing googles and a long scarf. What is not being acknowledged here that airlines are businesses in a sector that demands speed, safety, comfort and reliability. You just can't fly a 777 effi...