The tax process allows the airline to avoid the full cost of training No, it just means the cost of training is paid from revenue prior to calculation of profits, and that's because training is indeed a necessary expense to run the business. But carry on in your delusional world of make believe fre...

For training, the employer deducts the pilot training costs in their taxes Training eventually isn't a company cost, Says he who doesn't understand how the tax system works. Yes, training is a valid business expense, so it's deducted from gross income before calculating net income. That doesn't mea...

It’s not for me, for someone just getting started… I was simply wondering if that’s a new rule at Jazz. I wouldn't consider it 'new' by any stretch. Back in the day it was required to have a valid instrument rating, and we did a flight test each year to renew it. If you let it lapse, it was no long...

Yes obviously all those 703 operators need their own version of GPS theory to ensure it's properly applied to their operations.... Since they are all using different GPS satellites and GPS networks right? With gps the exception, all the rest need to be tailored to the operation in question. I have ...

That's the cost if ALL the trips combined. 8 years of trips. They say "August Trip" because it was always in August. Harper makes 8 trips over 8 years to some of the most remote and logistically challenged places on earth for 2.5 million... Trudeau blows 2.6 million in a week... From the star artic...

The moon is too small for totality. It looks like dawn or dusk during a full eclipse. The correction to that is 'it depends'. The earth-moon distance varies over the course of it's orbit. If moon is at it's closest to the earth at eclipse time, totality can last up to 7 minutes and it will be compl...

Has anyone here experienced totality before? Does it get really dark, or is it still fairly bright out? If you are in totality, it's just like night. Sun is gone, stars are out. Not while you are flying at higher altitudes. Really. I guess that's why back in the 70's a concorde was chartered to cha...

I'm not sure why pilot utilization is lower today. It's a general industry trend across all 704/705 lite. 1000hrs a year is the current limit, but that's still only 5.5hrs a day working 15 days/month. Not a whole ton of flying. Is it a lack of support and pilots are wasting duty time on tertiary du...

Fly0nTheWall wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:03 pm Has anyone here experienced totality before? Does it get really dark, or is it still fairly bright out?

If you are in totality, it's just like night. Sun is gone, stars are out.

I'm not an instructor but I don't think there is much training conducted in IMC conditions so it is probably all hood time. Back in the day when I taught for an IFR school, most of the training done during the winter was in IMC. That was back in the 80's, dunno how various schools do it today, but ...

You can get a 705 FO position without an ATPL. I just have an ATPL Frozen. Does your license say 'Airline Transport Pilot' on it, or does it say 'Commercial Pilot' ? You left a bit of gray back there… Assuming a CPL holder also has a valid IATRA then yes the candidate could potentially crew a 705 p...

peterdill wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:18 am You can get a 705 FO position without an ATPL. I just have an ATPL Frozen.

Does your license say 'Airline Transport Pilot' on it, or does it say 'Commercial Pilot' ?

digits_ wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 3:33 pm Uncomfortable, hot, loud and noisy. Yes, absolutely.

It's only hot in the summer...

1200 tt with 900 on the 737, you have an interesting conundrum that his very much not typical in North America. With 1200 total, it's a given you dont have an ATPL. Since 900 of that is on the 737, and it's unlikely any of it is left seat time, then you likely dont have the PIC requirements for an A...

pelmet wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 9:27 am I think the SP is still around in PW.

It's a way cool setup for engine testing.

Has there ever been a case in Canada were a commerical pilots personal estate has been sued as the result of a fatal accident while they were operating in the employ of a corporation ? yes there has. Islander that vanished years ago somewhere in the coast range. The pilot's estate was sued into obl...

I have always asked for one, both on my own rides, and on those done for other folks working for us. We kept copies in everybody's training records.

up on one wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 8:50 am Prime +2%? So I’m getting a 9.2% return? How many type ratings can I apply for at Wasaya?

Prime +2 may not look so good if you realize, it means you have to work there for 2 years.

goingnowherefast wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2024 12:11 pm Is there a source for this? Or interesting speculation?

It's a troll trying to figure out who has a sense of humour and who cant tell the difference between news and a joke.

All propeller blades bent so still making some power, interesting... Not sure about that. Blades are feathered, so could have been just windmilling when they hit that fence. the photos I've seen, snow is coming down, top of the wing looks clean, boots look clean. Listening to the ATC recording, the...