Your right, the manual definitely needs amending.
Can you do all aviation a public service and get them to amend the manual?

Just funning with you CWE. You’re not the only old bored cantankerous guy-on these forums.

I admitted ignorance only to what was referred to on page 111 of some nameless flight manual. I guess when you get old, and the goal is to argue, one can choose to pretend to lack reading comprehension skills. A virtue for Trolls, who like to ask questions to entrap the unwary. To be accurate though...

Tail Wheel airplanes? I googled it. They are a real thing...who knew? Apparently the collective wisdom of the people that wrote the manual does not compare to the knowledge of the illuminati. The history of tail wheel landings goes back to the age of dinosaurs when it was observed that the dinosaurs...

BPP. I agree, I like the FIG. And I understand what the “G” means....”.guide”. From the stories I hear, I am not sure all instructor examiners do. Now I take exception with your comment about short field in the circuit, but perhaps it is the internet. After initial solo, the next I liked to do three...

It was not years ago. Went something like this....IIRC 1. First solo...1 circuit. 2. Next flight dual for three circuits or as needed. Approx 1 hr solo circuits 3. Next flight. Dual for three circuits, intro / dual to short field. Solo for one hr. 4. Next flight. Solo to finish up three hours of sol...

https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south- ... ed--again/

Looks like a great operation.
If you hold an “ALTP” as required in their ad, should be a no brainer to fly for them.

I but I don't see this as disrespectful at all and certainly not semantics.

I think many of us do.

It would be nice if TC would publish something like that for fixed wing. Particularly with a table as shown there..
The whole engine start to stop would end.

But...where exactly does it prohibit air time +.2?

Well your attempt at humorous sarcasm did not get missed. Here is something to give some thought to. Chalk to chalk is an old military term because the chalks were removed and placed for you. No need to know aviation history if you are an entitled millennium. And , I suppose, no need to actually loo...

No. It should be chalk to chalk. Not engine start to engine stop. As to charging. That is not the issue here. It is about logging time that is not flight time at all. Charging before the plane moves and after ithas stopped. Be honest avitard. That should be included in the rate charged. You are not ...

No the definition has not changed as per the CARs. What has changed is FTUs using Hobbs time as flight time. Based on oil pressure,that means from engine start to engine stop. And, what is really at issue,is TC approving the practice. Instructors dont want students listening to AWOS or ATIS before s...

Beef wrote Maybe because people start flying before they have a radio license, then they build hours being number 6 for take off, getting used to controllers, flying in traffic etc. Or....maybe it has something to do with the FTUs convincing TC to redine flight time from engine on to engine off. I f...

because an hour isn't nearly as long as it used to be?

How true! Photo, you are becoming jaded. Keep it up

Zaibatsu wrote Not surprising with the experience levels out there and the nasty landing habits of the Q. Not surprising? Do you have the experience level for those crew members? Do you know the circumstances of the accident? The kind of comment is more than a bit unfair if it is just outright specu...

This thread is very valuable. I used to think I worried a lot about insignificant details.

Me too, but not anymore.
Now let's discuss whether it should be Cxxxx or C-xxxx.

The simple solution to this situation is a belton tax. Getting hurt should not be free.

Are they now in operation?

maybe i'm just old fashioned and believe in a solid reference. The majors dont give a rat’s patutti about bond jumping, or screwing your previous employer. They need a pilot. You fit the profile. You’re hired. Priority one is a family member working for the company already. Hours in the log book pl...

Gosh...seems to me , if wind is an issue, you could take them off right after the pax are on board while they are getting seated . It is not a common problem.
I even seem to recall some crews doing this.

Free turbines spin the prop the wrong way all the time on windy day..... There is no lubrication going on at that point. As someone else mentioned it is not a good thing. When you typically start a free turbine, you will almost immediately get oil pressure...before introducing fuel and starting...i...

Thank you for making that your last post on the subject. It isnt going to happen. The musings of old guys because they stated, without basis, that the pilots of old were better. The accident stats do not back them up at all, despite their cherry picking this or that accident to confirm their bias. B...

Ask the photo ops folks to give you a guarantee in writing of 400 hrs for the season. Or pay you the difference if you do not fly 400. If they won’t do that it tells you a lot about their confidence. And I am pretty certain they wont. You took a job. Keep your word . This is why companies have bonds...

As I understand your argument laser, you feel that the over 60s should give up their jobs....so you and those like you can get to bigger checks faster. Is that about right? What entitles you more to the higher wage than the pilot you want to put out to pasture? Other than you want their job. That se...

Oh right, it's greed. I dont know how many I speak for, but that comment is offensive to me. I love flying, it is not what I do but who I am. At 65 they put me out to pasture. I found in the pasture whole new areas of flight. It gets me up in the morning. I look forward to “work”. You kids that got...

50,000 flight hrs Do the math! The “revolving” enter when you want ground schools, are, in my opinion a waste. They are not optimized for learning.. Another “on demand” accommodation, Ground school is often overlooked as unimportant, but in the greater scheme of your flying career it is ver very im...