I'm not quite sure sure but if i remember correctly a 215 doesn't have a gear warning horn since does water pickups. As well all the 215's that went over were bought by the turkish govt and buffalo are just doing the training with their military pilots. Apparently its not going very well.....

I stand corrected after a little poking around. The Tu-114 is the fastest. Max Speed 870 km/h (470 kt, 541 mph). Cruise speed 770 km/h (415 kt, 478 mph).

Don't forget the SAAB 2000. Cruising speed 682 km/h (424 mph, 368 kn) at 25,000 ft.

From what I've been told there's a course starting Sept 3rd. They're unsure as of size of the course right know. Next course after that is Oct 1st.

Guess thats going to make for an interesting fall in YYT.... I don't think many people are aware of this. Could make for alot of violations..... or afew days when you can't get out of YYT when fog season hits.

here's a link to the Transport site with some of the details.

http://www.tc.gc.ca/CivilAviation/Regse ... 005004.htm

I'm not sure if its quite quashed as of yet. As of only about 2 or three weeks ago it was still under review. Wether or not it gets passed is another thing. But from what I understand is that the approach ban for precision appraoches will be at 1800ft RVR unless you have a op spec and the aircraft i...

Well more interesting news with PAL. From what I've been told there's alot of movement going on within the company. Apparently there are going to be upwards of 9 or more F/O's hired for the SAAB/Dash/Twin otter/citation/metro. Along with that seems like there are going to be about 7 or so upgrades f...

Should be interesting to see if they do start hiring. Start the line up at the revolving doors.

Another log to throw onto the fire.. Apparently transport is revisiting the ATPL requirements. They are planning to increase the amount of supervised PIC that you can count towards the licence to 150hrs rather than 100hrs. As well they are looking at making it a requirement to have a PPC on a comple...

Seems like another pilot from PAL is leaving to go to Canjet in may. That makes 3.. 2 for DE captain and 1 for FO. The ranks are getting thinner...

oh yee of little faith.. Anyway regardless if you want to believe or not, there are direct entry captain positions at Canjet. Wether or not they cut the mustard and make it through the training and line indoc is yet to be seen. If they don't well then they don't get their $10000 signing bonus and th...

More news.. Another got the call today.. That makes 2 for DE.

He's gone direct Captain.

One pilot is gone. His course starts april 4th down in miami. Four more to hear about.

next wednesday.

Wednesday will be the telltale day for everybody that had interviews with Canjet. Anybody who gets the call to go will be starting groundschool the beginning of april.

Its a small industry and everbody talks.... Its not hard to figure out whats going on these days.

The question that stems form that is would anyone go back to work for Marcoux after being burned by him before??

Any particular reason you ask main gear???

I'm looking for a little bit of input prior to making a career decision. I am currently working for an airline and have gotten about 3000hrs F/O time on 705 aircraft(5500hrs TT). My dilema is wether or not to stay and get PIC time with upcoming postions or to go to the mainstream airlines(Westjet/Ai...

By the way Snag... Just a little tib bit of info of whats else is transpiring at PAL. There are 5 more people who have interviews in the VERY near future... April should be an interesting month at PAL.

Actually I know him myself and its really good news for him. I was glad to hear that he got the position as well. He's worked long and hard to get to where he is. And Snag I'm sure we've probably crossed paths along the way at some point. But anonymity is one of the best things about these forums......

Well he's a first officer on the Dash 8 and has been with PAL for about 3 years or so. He's off to greener pastures with Jazz actually.

Well it was official as of yesterday... The first of many pilots is leaving PAL. It should be interesting to see what happens in the next little while.