Glad this incident turned out well. Any thoughts to what the cause could be?

https://www.cheknews.ca/westjet-plane-e ... in-431082/

I've seriously considered getting out of aviation but not because it's hard to make a living at. I just figure that maybe now or soon, it might be a good idea to get into policing or the military or learn how to use a milling machine so I can make some guns. That way, when the oil runs out, I'll hav...

I asked them what would happen if I didn't have the new license and they said there would be fines and possibly charges for not flying with a valid license which is a load of BS. I was qualified to fly before this license. I'm still qualified after. The only thing that's changed is for me to have yo...

Please F--k Off

They don't say it like that though. It is usually a very diplomatic letter but it amounts to those 3 words in the end.

So the Germans were spent in 1917 and then the Americans enter, and the Germans go on for another year and a half? That doesn't sound like they were very spent to me. As for Unconditional Surrender, yes, the Japanese government had toyed with the idea of a peace treaty but none of their proposals in...

The Aerocourse manual will get you through the exam. However, if you really want to know the systems and how stuff works, which would be a good thing considering your career choice, look elsewhere for your info.

A 210 weighs less than 12,500, has a piston engine, has a crew of one, does not have a Vne of 250, and has a stall speed of less than 85. You'd be hard pressed to call it complex. A 210 is a speedy little single with retractable gear but that's it.

Just one last thing I want to point out. The reason that there is bigger spacing between aircraft using conventional navaids like VOR and NDB is that the conventional navaids are less accurate than GPS, not because there is ambiguity as to where the aircraft (or the station) is. When you figure GPS ...

AuxBatOn, i may be mistaken here as I have never flown for the military or used a TACAN. If you are flying a straight line (direct) to a station, whether it is VOR or TACAN, your track and bearing will change over the course of the flight (while correcting for local variation unless you are slaved t...

Canadians used to operate off of US aircraft carriers on training exercises in the 50's and they used to operate off ours. The French Navy trains most of its pilots in the US and the Rafale was designed to fly off US carriers as the French Navy uses the same technology and systems the US does. As fa...

It smells like Cloudcounter in here.

On the slide, There is a difference between doing true humanitarian work and working for a company like VAL. If it is a truly not for profit company, any money saved is available for humanitarian projects. With a company like VAL, your generosity and humanitarian heart are taken advantage of and use...

I can think of very few situations where a tailwind takeoff would be necessary in a float plane. Specifically only 2 although these are the only 2 I've run into. A takeoff on a river with a strong current and on a short lake where a step turn to downwind will get you off. You definetely don't want t...

As far as improbable scenarios go, I was just referring to the latest one here with IABD about tazering pregnant women. A post was made here involving a situation with a pregnant lady where just the opposite of that happened and not a peep about that. There's others. I recall a few about who the RCM...

Cpl_atc You had some good stuff awhile ago about atc rules, pilot complacency and proper procedures. Since the RCMP incident in Vancouver, it seems this is all you ever talk about with your improbable scenarios getting ever wilder. Posting about this stuff isn't going to help anything in the long ru...

I was thinking something along the lines of 2 girls, 1 cup with the name of this thread...

Considering these were school age kids, if the officer did have a gun, imagine the reaction if he had shot one. Or if he had had a tazer, we'd be reading about his use of the tazer for dealing with some "kids" that he should have been able to handle. There would have been another post about police u...

They should be disciplined? For not carrying a gun in a public school? There's quite a few divisions in municipal police departments that don't carry weapons. I remember when I was in school, the police liaison officer dressed in a suit and didn't carry anything with him. That was only 15 years ago.

School Liaison Officers don't carry weapons, unless Edmonton police do things differently than most other places in the country. The pepper spray was most likely all he was carrying.

I think you got the wrong accident report

Saw the broken remains of the satellite over Northern Alberta tonight at about 9pm. Right about when they said it would be going over. 1 big ball of flame followed by around 10 smaller pieces.

I bet you could get a really good deal on a room at the Monte Carlo now.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,325606,00.html

I'm wondering if he had the controls full forward and brought the gear up, if the reduced nose down tendency would have raised the nose into an unrecoverable stall. Never flown an F-27 but just trying to understand his decision.

P.S. Boosted, the incarcerated criminals shouldn't be driving. If they are, there's a problem at the prison. Its the unincarcerated ones I'd be worried about. Snowshoe. The last shooting in Nunavut, it wouldn't have mattered if it had been a 30 year veteran. The guy was waiting in the darkness with ...

[quote="BoostedNihilist"] The addage if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen comes to mind. If you join the RCMP and don't know you will have to walk up on a lot of cars, and the danger that might entail, you probably shouldn't have passed the entrance examination. quote] You have got to...