Unless you are flying an airplane with a tiller nosewheel steering system, how the hell do pilots make it to the runway without at least once applying rudder? Are there that many pilots, dead from the asshole in both diections, that steer the airplanes on the ground and on take-off using only brake...

There is a clip of the accident on Transport Canada's Pilot Decision Making CD, the video is called "It's Your Decision".

If its the same one you are talking about, Yellow Beaver making a glassy water landing, things get a little squirlly and it ends up upside down with a broken wing.

I think if you guys actually read the quote it says,

"Ransbury said this is the first airborne accident in the company's history."

Pax River was not an airborne accident.

Hicks and Lawrence has the detection and birddog contracts in ontario. The mins for a detection pilot on the C337 are 1000TT and 100MPIC and for a birddog pilot on the AC50, 2000TT and 300MPIC. Birddog pilots have generally gone through the detection program then moved up when a spot becomes availab...

Has anyone that is flying for Hicks this season got their info yet?

Flights per day varied, from 0 to 14 or so. It was all based on the wx and the number of tour buses that showed. Some days 1 bus would show and everyone on it would want to go for the tour and then the next bus would show and only 3 people would want to go. Yes, it did make it difficult to survive o...

A good company to work for. They were paying $12 a flight and no base pay. A good way for lower time guys/gals to get some 206/207 time in their books if they are interested in going north in the future. The company has recently been sold. As far as I have heard they are going to run it the same. Al...

Ya I would have rolled it on the 45 too!!