As shortages of experienced pilots takes hold (it’s not going away because it is systemic), a lot of pilots like these are coming out of the woodwork. They “tick the boxes” for regulatory or experience levels (ATPL, TT, MPIC, etc) but their actual experience is dated, not current, irrelevant, or inc...

Unstable approach, tail wind ,down slope . Apparently right hand brake locked up with anti lock brakes ........... no one hurt all that really matters . Right no one was hurt, bending a perfectly good airplane because of bad PDM is fine, as long as everyone is okay afterwards. “Perfectly good airpl...

There is virtually zero accuracy to any of the aforementioned misinformation. Where you people come up with this, likely some kind of desire for attention, is beyond me. BRO Bottom half of the seniority has a half life of two years. Heavy attrition of experienced guys from the top half. One year up...

PostmasterGeneral wrote: ↑Sun Feb 01, 2026 2:49 pm Gulfstreams go faster than Globals, Bob.

Really….

https://bombardier.com/en/aircraft/global-8000

There isn't a business jet on the market that is more gorgeous than the new Gulfstreams. Thats just looks though. Not sure how reliable they are. Not sure why you are bragging about Bombardier though. What a mess of a company. It might look nice, but can you stand up in the cabin? G650/700/800 cabi...

In other words.. typical FAA letting the fox guard the henhouse that lead to doors blowing off and planes flying themselves into the ground. Whats the market for Gulfstreams in Canada, anyway? Americans buy Gulfstreams because they are American. Americans buy Globals because they are the best. Just ...

Do you guys think Air Canada would remain a viable airline if Canada were to become part of the United States? Obviously they'd have to more than double pilot salaries to retain any crew but otherwise would they be able to compete with US legacy airlines? The problem in this scenario is that Canada...

Investment has been leaving Canada for a decade. If our O&G exports to the US are displaced by Venezuelan oil, we are in serious trouble (and I don't just mean charter airlines). Except it hasn’t. It’s been leaving oil and gas in Canada as well as the rest of the world because it has the same long ...

CL-Skadoo! wrote: ↑Tue Jan 13, 2026 7:06 am How are they retaining such talented drivers?

They aren’t.

They lowered experience requirements and it’s a revolving door. Think Jazz or Encore but you get to drop stuff from airplanes.

Yeah it’s perfectly possible to go even knife edge and not stall. But you’re not recovering before you hit the ground if you do it at 300 feet unless you were climbing when you initiated it. It’s likely they were already descending due to the loss of lift from the bank angle, and rather than fix the...

Autoland will permeate all GA sectors, though. It’s too good of an idea not to. CAPS comes with a performance penalty and becomes increasingly impractical with a larger aircraft which is why it’s pretty much limited to Cirrus and a few smaller planes. Ill say this again. CAPS (Cirrus Airframe Paric...

Autoland will permeate all GA sectors, though.

It’s too good of an idea not to. CAPS comes with a performance penalty and becomes increasingly impractical with a larger aircraft which is why it’s pretty much limited to Cirrus and a few smaller planes.

TSB final report: https://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/aviation/2023/a23w0158/a23w0158.html Thanks for posting. This should be required reading for all pilots (and especially low time pilots working the ramp waiting for a spot). 4 approaches, all home-brew? Going down to 50'? I've worked in t...

First rule of anything automatic is to not mess with it. I can’t say that I would do anything different in the situation. Even hitting the PTT might disable it. I wonder if anyone can shed any light on what training is involved? Like if you accidentally activate it can you turn it off or override it...

SpyPilot wrote: ↑Thu Jan 08, 2026 2:02 am oldncold: Grammar cop here. You should also revisit your school of writing.

It’s Boomer-speak and a well recognized and soon to be protected vernacular. Like Cockney, Jamaican Patois, or African American English.


Gobbless.

Absolutely disgusting. Anyone going there knowing this deserves it. Sorry you had to go through this abuse going in without having any clue what expected you. Hopefully you left within a month after seeing this. Canadian aviation industry is a sickening 3rd world country. It’s not Canadian aviation...

So… I’m kind of reading between the lines here. The TSB explicitly says that its reports are not for legal purposes and can’t be entered as evidence. Am I to understand that Wilderness Air basically looked for a reason for this plane shouldn’t have been flying in the first place outside of the repor...

Why did these doctors not train in Canada? Seems a no brainer that if you want to live and work in Canada that as a Canadian you’d get your training here.

I’m sorry but I don’t think that Canadians that went to Harvard or Johns Hopkins want to be a GP in Flin Flon.

**** wrote: ↑Fri Dec 12, 2025 4:17 pm Great news for the other countries that will benefit from the work they do.

That means every time a German A340 or French A330 or a British A400 comes through, we are benefiting, right?

It sounds like New Zealand on 267 every summer.

Don’t.

All you have to do is look at what was achievable in the 1970s/1980s vs today and the amount of effort and money required to do so. In the 70s and 80s.. a high school drop out could get a decent paying union factory job in his hometown, buy a detached house, and raise a family with money to spare on...

Bunch of boomers retiring and going "what are we gonna do with all this time and money?" That's a great point. We're in a good industry to cash in on the boomer bucks. Many of them are traveling constantly. Hopefully the Instagramers will also continue that trend and continue to chase international...

“Winning” And just remember when you look at US per capita GDP and average wages…. wealth inequality is massively higher south of the border. For every Delta pilot making half a mill a year (for now)… there’s a lot of skilled US workers making less than the Canadian average wage. My last trip to the...

The real reason for ramp is cheap indentured labour. And anyone knows that it’s all up to the trainer whether you pass or fail. I could sewer each and every one of you given the chance and I’m sure you could do the same to me. Whether it’s regs knowledge, obscure passages in the AFM or supplements, ...