"DON’T expect any shuffling of positions, lawsuits, grievances or any bullshit like that. It’s just not happening." That's something you can't control. I'm dealing with the same "hopes" with respect to my ex-spouse. She is threatening to take me to court, looking for retroactive spousal support (ab...

Just tell ATC that you will fly with visual references to whatever point you will intercept and begin the approach.

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Sun Feb 24, 2019 6:36 am

If I can sit on my deck with a beer in my hand, I'll watch my laptop while it delivers pop and chips to pikagikum

Not so far fetched.

What is it with the constant stream of used hardware that our military seems to be getting?

How long until we start losing pilot jobs to this kind of UAVs? Or how many more years of two-crew operations? I wonder how feasible it'd be to ''upgrade'' the current two-crew rated airplanes to fly single pilot. It’s one thing to use a UAV for cargo or surveillance, but I think we are a long way ...

Meteors and meteorites as the enter the atmosphere travel so fast that they compress the air in front of their path, which creates high levels of heat that burn up the object. This is the light of the “shooting star” that you are seeing. The source of these meteorites are varied. In some cases they ...

At Cornwall you will be loading up the flight plan in the GPS for half hour on the ground while 2 engines are running @ $400 per hour and the instructor who doesn't give a shit about you or your money is looking out the window and/or texting. Put your flight plan in before start, then save it. Afte...

Banning cannabis use among any staff is nothing short of hypocritical and grossly over correcting. While I completely agree with the ban and strongly agree cannabis, like any other state altering substance, in the wrong hands is a public danger. It, however is also a scientifically proven medicine ...

I have done some uav work in the past. Average pay 150-170k. Easy work. Decent money. Crappy locations. Kinda boring work. Canadian company working overseas.

Have heard a student used it for the cross country and did most of the planning on it and the examiner in flight told him “oops the battery died on it, now what?” Student lost all focus and the flight test was given a fail and came back, so don’t rely on apps or gps in the plane please, good old lo...

Ultimately I would choose the one that has the shortest time for you to drive to. All these airports have thier advantages and disadvantages. They are not always obvious. During the 10 minutes used to fly from Boundary Bay to the trading area, there is ample training that can be done. Other comments...

We already have to pee in a cup for our medical. We already have piss tests at construction job sites. This is nothing new and should be expected, given the responsibility of hundreds of people's lives. When you pee in a cup for your medical do you know what the purpose of such is? Had a bit of a s...

Give altitude as VFR.

The toughest part I found in creating these apps is in making the interface intuitive enough that a user can just load it and start. Things I have found that I needed to do include: A utility to create an example aircraft to illustrate how the overall operation of the app behaves. Individual help fi...

Also changing aircraft moment for gear up/down configuration.

Things you might include that I have included on my W&B app: Warnings for overweight stations and intermediate calculations. Ie zfw max landing etc. Ability to set fuel station weight either directly using mass, or by volume of fuel in tanks. Support for consumable stations. Ie deice fluid, maybe sp...

I don’t think you even need the t&g at the end of your 300 for it to count. Just have to cover the distance I though.

What about time on floats spent learning sailing, docking, beaching etc. You could spend an hour or more in the plane and not leave the water.

I believe that the instrument training has to come from a flight instructor to be counted towards cpl time.

AeroW&B is what I use. Stand alone w&b app.

I often had access to The premier lounge in Vancouver simply by virtue of having an Amex corporate card. Not all premier lounges gave this service though.

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Spectrum Airways pays $21/hr for class 3 instructors. You get paid for the time you bill students (PGI, DUAL), no extras (Night Rating Solo Supervision not paid, 16 hrs a month "pilot duty" desk job not paid).”

How can anyplace get away with requiring unpaid work? Isn’t that illegal?

Assuming you are more than 3000 agl.

There is another’s ting to consider. Life is short, and money isn’t everything. What do you want to do? How much do you like your current job? How much do you think you will like being an airline pilot? All the money in the world is useless if you are unhappy with your situation. Ok, well maybe not ...

I don’t think drone trucks are that far away. The google self driving cars already have a safer driving record than human driven cars. Drone surveillance and cargo hauling already happens in war zones. It will come, just a matter of time. Eventually no one will give it a second thought. It will simp...