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- Mon Dec 14, 2015 10:03 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Headset suggestion
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4191
Re: Headset suggestion
Has anyone ever tried one of the discount/rebranded ANR sets like the following Aircraft Spruce ANR model: http://www.aircraftspruce.ca/catalog/avpages/skycom.php Have used my passive DC's for a decade and love the fit, was thinking of doing the Headsets Inc ANR mod to them, but for almost no increm...
- Wed Jan 07, 2015 10:15 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Flying in snow showers
- Replies: 46
- Views: 4724
Re: Flying in snow showers
Also, to the OP: For further consideration/discussion with your instructor, related to your flight (I'm going to agree with everyone that you 100% did the safest thing). If you were a licensed, more experienced pilot, what other options might there have been? Is it possible that the snow shower bloc...
- Wed Jan 07, 2015 10:13 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Flying in snow showers
- Replies: 46
- Views: 4724
Re: Flying in snow showers
One of the things that has got me through the years is If I find myself asking a go-no go question to start with, I probably should not go. If it was OK to go you will not be asking yourself the question. Good discussion and very timely with the weather. I know what you mean by this, but this could...
- Tue Dec 23, 2014 11:27 pm
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Niagara Falls Tour
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7341
Re: Niagara Falls Tour
I want a trip report if you go. I'm suffering a serious shortage of tales about fun flying stuff to vicariously live through here. I'll second that call for someone to post an interesting flight. Been in a drought myself stuck at work 24/7. First person to post a picture of the Christmas lights ove...
- Tue Dec 23, 2014 11:09 pm
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Reviewing with non-instructor pilot
- Replies: 73
- Views: 5905
Re: Reviewing with non-instructor pilot
incidentally, I've run into people who've thought that cabin crew could some how benefit from logging their time, and one person who was under the impression that any time spent in an airplane was loggable, even crammed into coach on your way to Winnipeg. I'm sure I've seen a log book somewhere - m...
- Tue Dec 23, 2014 11:04 pm
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Reviewing with non-instructor pilot
- Replies: 73
- Views: 5905
Re: Reviewing with non-instructor pilot
I've always enjoyed taking up new pilots -- far too many people start a PPL and then quit for whatever reason. Opening their eyes to the world post PPL where they could split flights, fly a new type, land on some grass strip that in no way resembles the airports they fly out of etc, I'd like to thin...
- Thu Dec 18, 2014 6:56 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Loss of License Insurance for College of Pilots members
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1646
Re: Loss of License Insurance for College of Pilots members
I'm surprised the payout is only for 5 years too if you lose your license - is that industry standard for aviation? Maybe that's why it's not advertised as a traditional own-occupation disability insurance? Probably the claim rate for this type of thing is high in pilots compared to others. I'm not ...
- Sun Dec 14, 2014 12:42 pm
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Flying after maintenance work
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2797
Re: Flying after maintenance work
Something else to keep in mind when flying after maintenance is that, if anything should seem unusual, you must as always remember to fly the airplane first. Everyone knows this but actually committing to doing so does not happen 100% of the time. The majority of things that might be worse after mai...
- Wed Dec 03, 2014 8:22 pm
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Interesting Incidents From Yesterday
- Replies: 60
- Views: 6018
Re: Interesting Incidents From Yesterday
So I'll ask my instructor to practice it with me sometime and won't let him go home until I can reach that level. :smt040 Sadly, the odds are your instructor is a fairly new pilot him/herself, and is also not allowed to fly in significant winds, so you will instead be left to learn this on your own...
- Wed Dec 03, 2014 7:54 pm
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Niagara Falls Tour
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7341
Re: Niagara Falls Tour
When you overfly the falls more than 2000 feet above the usual legal minimum over a built up area, and find yourself squinting to appreciate the falls, just remember you are somehow doing your bit as a private fixed wing pilot to prevent commercial helicopters from crashing into each other far below...
- Thu Oct 23, 2014 8:41 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Looking for Aircraft to Share/Rent (Edmonton)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2451
Re: Looking for Aircraft to Share/Rent (Edmonton)
I have had a great arrangement like this in the past -- paid the owner enough to cover the fuel I burned plus his annual and insurance over the course of a year's flying so he thought it was worthwhile too. Often we flew together and split the flying. It was a good setup but one that is uncommon. Fo...
- Thu Oct 16, 2014 11:45 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Good grief what's wrong with me?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 7075
Re: Good grief what's wrong with me?
Have you considered a Champ instead? 2 usable seats and a little wider/more comfortable all around. Performance is basically the same, and they cost less. Less nostalgia I guess.
- Thu Oct 16, 2014 11:42 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: COPA Insurance Fail
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2088
Re: COPA Insurance Fail
The only reason I'm a member is because I like to read the airplane ads every month Here's a handy tip for you: - obtain a copy of any COPA (or other published) classifieds from 1980-2000, rewrite 2014 overtop of that date - add 10 hours per year to the total time on each personal aircraft being ha...
- Mon Oct 06, 2014 2:36 pm
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Tailwheel books? "The Compleat Taildragger Pilot"
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2054
Re: Tailwheel books? "The Compleat Taildragger Pilot"
What kind of tips do these dedicated books provide? Admittedly I am a low pilot tail-dragger pilot, but I was taught fairly informally to: - keep the plane pointed straight down the runway at all costs - do everything else slower than you think (slowing down, raising or lowering the tail, turning of...
- Sun Aug 10, 2014 10:49 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Bad dreams
- Replies: 43
- Views: 3590
Re: Bad dreams
Sometimes I dream that I am caught wrestling the local flight school's 172 around the circuit, with page #3 of the pre-landing checklist missing.
Piss the bed every time.
Piss the bed every time.
- Sat Aug 02, 2014 5:46 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Watching fireworks in the air
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1087
Re: Watching fireworks in the air
Never purpose-flown over a huge event to say for sure, but from being in the air a few times coincidentally in general it's not worth it. Didn't seem like they burst much more than a few hundred feet above the ground.
- Fri Jul 11, 2014 11:34 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Crop duster gets shot at in MB.
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3609
Re: Crop duster gets shot at in MB.
A body...digits_ wrote: So what requirement is missing in this case for it not be a murder charge ?
- Mon Jun 30, 2014 10:39 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Tale of Two B-25 Mitchells
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1697
Re: Tale of Two B-25 Mitchells
It's exciting to see this kind of thing happen in Edmonton. Thank you to Tom and the rest of the museum staff - I'm sure to say this is a lot of work is an understatement. I look forward to coming out to Villeneuve soon.
- Mon Jun 30, 2014 10:29 pm
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Instructor Fell Asleep
- Replies: 128
- Views: 6904
Re: Instructor Fell Asleep
I find it very hard to understand how this thread has went on so long for what is clearly an unsafe situation that has no reason to exist. Who was the PIC when your instructor was asleep? Who was utilizing their experience and judgement to keep you alive? If someone felt you were OK to safely conduc...
- Wed Jun 25, 2014 2:53 pm
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: How to decide if an a/c is safe to fly
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2459
Re: How to decide if an a/c is safe to fly
It's going to be very hard for you as a new pilot to be confident on this no matter what anyone ends up telling you, and you're going to be left with deciding "do I put money on this or not". Planes need to fly more, and so do us pilots, so it would be great if there were more owners out there offer...