Just got mine today. Applied in August. The website said it was printed (actually just processed) November 2. Arrival February 16

Another friend was in YPL with a Turbo Otter on skis. Got airborne with a cement filled tire attached to the tail. Apparently flew “ poorly “, so they came back and landed.

I watched that one happen! The tire towed along nice and smooth..

You hear the Encore guys amending and slowing down all the time. rarely hear the jazz machines doing it. Two words. Block Growth. It isn't block growth. Encore flight plans at max cruise to ensure block times are min for a variety of commercial reasons including flexibility, keeping times close to ...

The last few classes have had some higher time applicants, i.e. 3000-5000 hours for FO positions.

Yes, and some are down closer to 1000hrs. Lots come with no time on turbine, or pressurized aircraft either. It goes in waves. Sometimes they have lots of experience, and sometimes very little.

I'm considering getting in touch with these guys. They seem to have a good product. http://www.logbooksolutions.com I bought one from these guys and am very happy with it. I also blew a bit and bought the nice paper. The finished product looks amazing and I felt really good heading into an intervie...

Holy crap on a cracker! I can't imagine any scenario where an aircraft is on the ground at a major airport, on FIRE (and not just a little bit) and everybody just sits there at the direction of the CREW instead of bailing out. Did ATC not let them know that the whole wing was going up? What about th...

And don't forget the oil companies are supplying their own aircraft, ground crews, paying for and arranging charter aircraft, providing lodging and food for YMM residents, and even space for things like medical care. AC and WJ are doing lots, but the big dirty oil companies are doing it for free AND...

Okay, maybe I missed a previous thread but..... This was published in the Aviation Herald just today. Mods please lock this up if it was already posted! Your Ad here Incident: Canadian North B733 at Fort MacKay on Dec 17th 2013, uncommanded left roll despite full right ailerons By Simon Hradecky, cr...

Congrats Ken! My wife still chuckles about us spending Valentine's day in YQT one year and ending up eating vegetarian pizza in your hotel room because there was no place open to eat! You were always a true professional and a fine guy to have a fuel spill with. Look me up if you are ever in YYC. And...

Here's another

http://www.jacdec.de/news/news.htm

I taught pilots from Tatarstan airlines some years ago when they were going to buy CRJ900's. Scary outfit and some scary piloting skills at that airline!

Well Doc couldn't see the dirt getting flung 100yds into the bush as the prop dug a hole in the frozen clay, so it seemed like a good CRM type suggestion at the time...

Too hard to get a tag for old rubber nose here in Alberta, so I hunt deer now

So what was that freighter doing in Kenora?

I had the other "ringside seat" for the '98 incident. I had no idea that some of the pics I took on that disposable camera are floating around the net! I still have the original pile around the house somewhere, but haven't seen them in years...

Pretty well anywhere but North America there is no "declaring and emergency". You declare a "mayday". Anything that will or may require priority handling requires a "pan pan". We have somehow gotten ourselves away from that philosophy here and now treat a mayday as something only to be used as we sp...

Definitely worth the visit. It's a bit pricey, but then everything down there is, and of course it's a private venture. A tour of the workshops was also a must!

I got a CADORs report (not I don't have it readily to hand) that WJ had a medical emergency and had to declare for priority. That could be it.

I used to do it all the time and all for one company even. I would fly a HS748 until I timed out on one thing or another, and then go jump into a Caravan and keep going until I timed out on that one. Then take enough time off to go back to flying whatever needed flying more. One day I actually timed...

I was recently talking to some folks that work there and they found a couple of major boo-boo's when they built that. The original section was built to check access to an area for repairing and replacing some widget or another and as suspected, it would have been major work to do it with the origina...

No, nothing further. He had sat there like that for about 30 min before being approached. By the time buddy had made a trip to the bathroom and back, he had stripped off his finery and was wearing the basic white shirt. He was still there when I showed up. Crescent st is a LONG way from the airport,...

....wearing his white shirt, three gold bars on each shoulder, Jazz wings and airside pass. Then he gets himself a nice table on the terrace by the sidewalk. Nothing like downtown Montreal in the summer, watchin' the babes on the busiest street in town, and feeling pretty cool. So then another pilot...

Wow! Thanks a heap for posting that one! It saved my company (and ME) a whole world of hurt tomorrow. Turns out we were in the system, but didn't have a process in place to deal with the reservation numbers.

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Dr Ron Perlman. Works out of the big shiny gold buildings on the North side of the Trans Canada just east of sources. Always easy to get in. He does TC, FAA, JAA, but does charge a fair bit if you are paying yourself.

DC10 and the Martin Mars showed up over Ft. Mac way a week or so later. Probably a fair bit of lead time to procure one of those--or else it took a town burning get them to loosen the old rubber band on the gov't wallet

When tower/ATC calls an A/C with instructions it always preceeds the message with A/C call sign:: eg. Air Canada 007 climb and maintain 16 thousand. IS THE CORRECT READ BACK 1 or 2 # 1 Air Canada 007 , climbing to 1 6 thousand # 2 Climbing to 1 6 thousand , Air Canada 007 Neither one. The proper an...

I think my original POINT is getting missed a bit here. My INTENTION was to discuss this almost pervasive idea in our industry that one should land with a known EMERGENCY, or end up ON the runway with a known emergency, but then try to take the time to CLEAR the runway before initiating an evacuatio...

Okay, I'll buy the fact that in this case, they may not have known until after they exited the runway. The description reads (to me) like they knew about it, then they exited and then they bailed out. I originally posted using this example, buy with a more general philosophy in mind.