curious, which of the later more fuel efficient variants available are a combi with a gravel kit ?

Pilots still sign bonds? Why? With enough time to get on a King Air, you can go to Jazz/Encore/Porter and upgrade in a year. You can apply to Jazz/Encore/Porter and end up 'in the pool', but that doesn't put food on the table today, it puts you in the mode of 'hurry up and wait for that email that ...

https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/one-of-the-blades-came-right-through-the-roof-1-dead-in-campbell-river-helicopter-crash-1.4608294 ============ One person is dead after a helicopter crashed into a shed in Campbell River Tuesday morning. Rescuers were called to the scene near Spit Road at approxima...

I haven't been able to find anything on Canada Jetlines except stock pricing and "Making Flying Suck Less" Canada Jetlines is based on a tried and true business model that has been successful for decades, used mostly in the junior mining industry, and was very successfully applied to the dotcom bub...

Airport aftermath that taf from here :- https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/hurricane-dorian-bahamas-us-wednesday-1.5269563 https://i.cbc.ca/1.5270395.1567634307!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_780/storm-dorian.jpg Interesting that the props on the red one are feathered, and there ...

Although we in the flight ops side tend to look at Milton in a very negative way, I always wonder how people at the executive level perceive him. Look where he is today, that'll tell you. Dont think the job of 'chairman of the board at United Continental Holdings' would go to somebody they didn't t...

Yes but that’s irrelevant to the TFW. In order to renew their permit their employer has to prove that they tried and failed to employ someone who meets those residency conditions. Oh good point It's likely a short term position. With the WJ purchase Onex has garnered a lot of 'store credits' at Boe...

Bornaflyer wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 28, 2019 2:10 pm

With what career aspirations? Anyone hired now has no flow through to Jazz , or any certainty of work come this winter....

Sometimes folks take a job cuz they need to put food on the table today.

Aztecs were bad for doors popping, and dangerous when they did. Back in the early 80's I flew an aztec that had a nasty habit of popping the door shortly after liftoff. It happened to me 3 times over 5 days, maintenance kept telling me there was nothing wrong with the door. She shakes pretty good w...

altiplano wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 14, 2019 2:01 pm

If AF/KLM Quebecor Onex and whoever else is in this group come in with more money, I don't think it matters what Letko supports. People will go with money.

The vote was 94.77% in favour of the AC bid.

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/trans ... 14820.html

There is always somebody saying 'recession looming', some folks saying it all the time. When it comes, they change tune to 'depression coming'. And if they say it often enough, and long enough, eventually they will probably be right once.

Another flock of birds https://globalnews.ca/news/5768361/russian-plane-emergency-landing-birds/ ============= A passenger jet made an emergency landing in a field outside of one of Moscow’s airports on Thursday after colliding with a flock of birds, injuring at least 23 people, Russian officials sa...

You're all alike, Had the best careers, hired young, traded off the wawcon all along the way, either wanted to stay or are staying today... 35+ years... maxed pensions... All pigs at a trough... and it's all our fault... Yah, we all know, you made all the right decisions thru your entire career, bu...

'97 Tercel wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 26, 2019 10:03 pm

goldeneagle wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 26, 2019 9:27 pm

Turn cellphone off. If dispatch needs me they have my landline number. Problem solved.

What's a landline??

It’s that phone that still works when power is out and cell towers stop working

Turn cellphone off. If dispatch needs me they have my landline number. Problem solved.

News 1130 is reporting 9 on board a chartered aircraft. Four confirmed deceased.

https://www.citynews1130.com/2019/07/26 ... ral-coast/

Why anyone would want to work 20 days a month just to fly a 737 for $120k is beyond me. Tell that to the person on call 31 days a month to launch a navajo at a job that brings in around 40K over the year. Then there are the folks pounding out 20 days a month on a 1900 for under 40K. A hundred grand...

valleyboy wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 23, 2019 7:27 pm

What I will say is that loading 6 pax and a pilot into a beaver is wrong on this length of trip.

Umm, if you look back a bit, this discussion was about a norseman with only a pilot on board....

What the guy in the other post thinks is that he's invented some super-duper way to get as low as you can before crossing a shoreline onto glassy water, with the goal of using as little lake as possible for the landing. If the lake is that small, then you dont have a glassy problem to begin with, n...

corethatthermal wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 16, 2019 8:06 am

Has anyone in the float world tried backside power approaches to a glassy then transition to front side approach by adding power and be immediately onto the glassy approach profile for your A/C ?

Have you ever flown a floatplane ?

Then again, proper training would probably have helped as well. So maybe not the best accident to advocate installing EMAS everywhere. Especially because you are using a US airport without EMAS installed as an argument to install EMAS in Canada because the US is doing better in that regards :rolley...

If one filters thru the regular AvCanada drivel postings polluting this thread, a thread like this has potential to be enlightening for some. My scariest time in an aircraft was back in the early 80's, Booth Arrival into YVR in a Chieftan. Was around 8pm or so, lots of big buildups on the north shor...

I understand that some pilots would not wish to fly single pilot, with or without a link to a second pilot on the ground. I think most folks here are confusing the difference between how the aircraft is certified with how it is operated. Take a look around, KingAir, Twin Otter, Navajo, list goes on...

C.W.E. wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 10, 2019 12:35 pm

Are turbine engines more difficult to operate than piston engines?

Not really, but they are way more expensive when you break them.

boeingboy wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 19, 2019 12:46 pm

So let me get this straight....a newbie in the right seat (don't know captains experience yet),

I read a report somewhere, dont remember where, capt was 28yrs old and had 8000 hrs on the b737. Not exactly green and/or wet behind the ears with respect to the aircraft.