The Buffalo was used during the restoration and recovery of a B-29 that went down some time ago. Here's a link to the Doco, probably the saddest movie out there, will bring a grown man to tears! :smt089 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u4YBwjQTds FWIW: While the Youtube video is gone already, I assu...

Interesting! Are the incidents recorded somewhere to determine if brand A or brand B has an abnormal amount of incidents? Leading to intervention from the regulators, such as SBs or ADs? I wondered how I'd answer questions about skydiving, regulation, and safety so here is a rather long go at it. (...

It was a bit of an odd combination of events. The glider pilot was quite experienced. But that glider was new to him and he had little time on it and had never practiced stalls or even tight thermalling on it. Then he got into an inadvertent stall and incipient spin. But the glider had pretty much r...

First, that’s illegal, they have to be an employee in order for operating the aircraft on the operating certificate. Therefore at the very minimum, minimum wages is applicable, despicable but nonetheless applicable! As for Ops Certificate stuff, I don't know much about the details. Some pretty grey...

Nothing new here; it is the way the DZ has operated for many many years. My comments are as a skydiver (& PPL) who has jumped at Skydive Toronto among other DZ's, for many years. Certainly OK to bring the topic up again though; it has come up on AvCan a few times over the years. Joe Chow even wrote ...

I've seen a similar issue with a pilot at a small general aviation airport deciding to taxi on the grass, off the runway, to make space for some other aircraft taxiing and thus speed up operations. There's a hole in the grass somewhere, wood core prop gets fractured. Being over-eager to be courteous...

From the description it sounds like a new jump pilot was being checked out. So much for having a flight instructor onboard to supervise. As 'DAR and Pelmet say, it is a simple job to close a swing-up jump door on a Cessna. Was someone too eager to get the nose down and start descending, instead of s...

Haha, well, that's, kind of good -- aviation in no way at fault -- but also sort of a let down!

Pretty heavy duty weed wacker being used to clear whole trees...

Could be aircraft related. https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/unidentified-metal-object-crashes-through-roof-of-kitchener-ont-home-1.6841870 Happened Mon Apr 8, 2024. "CTV News reached out to the Transportation Safety Board of Canada who said they have no record of this incident. " The object looks rather...

There's no bad place to go in the GTA region, to be warned away from. A smaller place can be less impersonal. But whether at a big or small school, on busy days one can wait a long time to go up, as everyone tries to max out their students and keep the planes in use as much as possible. Skydive Toro...

Let's be careful here about what we're talking about. If I got this right - and I'm a bit new at this: In general, an AI and AH indicate in the same manner when it comes to pitch and roll. The thing about "they work opposite in pitch" only applies to very specific odd instruments that are no longer ...

Pilot Ryan Chapman posted about a week back: The Sukhoi is officially a Canadian aircraft!! After 4 long months, GLVE is officially on the Canadian registry and is now Canadian legal. Now it’s time to practice and prepare for the worlds! That's for the World Advanced Aerobatic Championships in Reno,...

Do pilots dropping skydivers have to wear a parachute in the US? Not always required. Commonly used in smaller planes, less so in bigger ones. Similar in Canada. I'm not absolutely sure of the rules but this seems to be the case: Parachute not required by FAA. Some STC's or 337's or what have you d...

I'm late to this discussion, but anyway. Yes a good dropzone will announce both when they are close to jumping -- e.g., a roughly 2 minute to jump call, roughly when they are turning onto the jump run. A jump pilot certainly won't know when all jumpers are down, and can't be trying to spot them all ...

I very certainly object to the notion of a pilot overflying an urban area, and then pulling the 'chute, and "throwing the airplane out of the sky"! or A destroyed house could easily have led to a ban on parachute deployments, or at the least result in even more airspace restrictions. WTF? This stuf...

I'm surprised the pilot is deceased. The cockpit looks fairly well preserved. It is a bit hard to tell from the head-on photo... but it looks to me like the engine compartment may have been pushed well back towards the cockpit area. The airplane's right wing has had a pretty hard smack on the leadi...

A couple more comments: Digits wrote: "The PPR factor seems a bit of a red herring in this accident. Even if the guy would have called the airport manager and got permission, I doubt the grass cutter would have been informed." Agreed in terms of the accident itself, given that the grass cutter was N...

I'm bringing this up as I realize that I and some other pilots have a very different interpretation of PPR than the TSB seems to have. It came up in the report recently published about the grass cutter being killed by a landing aircraft at the St Esprit, Qu airfield / drop zone. The pilot (who also ...

The report has been released. To save typing time, I'll just repost the summary that I wrote on a skydiving site. Just my interpretation, YMMV. I think I'll ask in the General forum what other's view of the meaning or definition of "PPR" is -- as the TSB doesn't realize that pilots might have a very...

Any idea why they decided on 45 degree bank? They seem to play with other variables, but the 45 degree bank for the turn seems fixed. Is there some reasoning that makes this the most efficient bank angle? Various aerodynamics calculations established that pretty clearly, as best I can tell. For exa...

Regarding the side-topic of Decathlon "things to check": The front seatback has indeed collapsed backwards before. Long ago I remember seeing a Decathlon on the front cover of Sport Aerobatics, flown by that year's US Sportsman level National Champion, Dick Lewis. The next year, 1988, the front seat...

An old 2014 Toronto Star article on Al and Markham airport (NU8) is still online: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/11/21/flights_of_fancy_at_markham_airport_a_former_cold_war_pilots_big_plans.html (If the paywall stops you after looking at too many Toronto Star pages, turn off javascript and re...

SWOOP (Southwestern Ontario Organization Of Parachutists) is just regular dropzone, when it comes to its activities. It has been around since, well, 1979 it seems from that previous link to gov't data on corporations. At Grand Bend originally, but moved to Dundas (north of Hamilton) probably 20+ yea...

So they say it is a 0 alt - 60 kts minimum seat, I read above. That's fine when travelling level and the ejection seat can give you a couple hundred feet of extra altitude, plus some extra forward speed, giving time and airspeed to help deploy the parachute. In this accident, clearly the velocity ve...

The Ontario Highway Traffic Act makes no provisions for common sense, capitalized or not Looking at the Ontario Highway Traffic act, as was linked to above, I can see your statement makes some sense. Part of the pulling over for emergency vehicles stuff says, "shall immediately bring such vehicle t...