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- Thu Aug 17, 2023 12:12 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Diamond Crash
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5106
Re: Diamond Crash
Statement from Cooking Lake Aviation posted on their website: ON FRIDAY AUGUST 11TH, ONE OF OUR AIRCRAFT WAS OUT ON A LOCAL TRAINING FLIGHT WITH A STUDENT AND INSTRUCTOR ONBOARD. THE AIRCRAFT DID NOT RETURN AT IT’S EXPECTED TIME AND WAS REPORTED OVERDUE AT 8:30PM. SEARCH & RESCUE (SAR) WAS IMMEDIATE...
- Sat Dec 08, 2018 4:27 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Whats your Shortest non stop flight?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 10643
Re: Whats your Shortest non stop flight?
KSTP to KSGS, 4.5 nm and KGSP to KGMU, 6.8 nm. Both in a jet, they make for quick flights.
- Mon Sep 24, 2018 10:11 am
- Forum: Employment Forum
- Topic: Integra Air
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4540
Re: Integra Air
Integra Air is no longer operating.
- Thu May 17, 2018 8:46 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Love Flying, hate travelling
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4473
Re: Love Flying, hate travelling
I got into this business 14 years ago to travel and see places. After living out of a suitcase for the last half of that, the novelty has wore off, and the reality is, like the last poster said, there is little time or opportunity to see anything when you’re stuck at the airport hotel, on min rest, ...
- Sat May 12, 2018 7:24 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Flair struggling?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7025
Re: Flair struggling?
I thought history had already demonstrated that the ULCC model doesn’t work in Canada. I never expected this NewLeaf/Flair venture to last as long as it has.
- Fri May 11, 2018 9:21 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Thyroid
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1670
Re: Thyroid
Check PMs
- Tue May 08, 2018 12:25 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Westjet's new Dreamliner livery & logo
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4334
Re: Westjet's new Dreamliner livery & logo
But on a long haul flight will they serve anything more than cookies or bits and bites?
- Fri Apr 27, 2018 2:25 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Navajo lands on the street in yyc
- Replies: 155
- Views: 30872
Re: Navajo lands on the street in yyc
I’ve never flown a Navajo so I have no experience with it. How reliable/accurate are the fuel gauges?
- Fri Apr 27, 2018 12:54 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Citation down North of Kelowna
- Replies: 188
- Views: 132439
- Wed Mar 28, 2018 4:12 pm
- Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
- Topic: AC 737MAX passenger seats
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3052
Re: AC 737MAX passenger seats
Also the lavs are getting smaller and smaller. I don’t know how anyone above average in size even fits in there. The location of them at the very back of the galley also must be annoying for the FAs.
- Thu Feb 15, 2018 12:43 pm
- Forum: Corporate
- Topic: Walmart Canada?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 11774
Re: Walmart Canada?
My understanding is that the current captain salary is around $120k
- Sat Feb 03, 2018 11:28 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Air Georgian wheel falls off on take off - YYZ
- Replies: 31
- Views: 8175
Re: Air Georgian wheel falls off on take off - YYZ
I’ve had the pleasure (misfortune?) of flying on Air Georgian only once. I have never seen an airplane with so many MEL placards in the cockpit in my life.
- Tue Dec 12, 2017 6:25 pm
- Forum: Employment Forum
- Topic: New Pilots
- Replies: 70
- Views: 17427
Re: New Pilots
Back in the day I got a job flying a Caravan with only 1000 hours and I thought I had won the lottery. Now everyone thinks they’re entitled to fly a 705 jet with the same. Times have sure changed.
- Fri Oct 27, 2017 2:55 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: How are People Filing IFR Flight Plans?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5796
Re: How are People Filing IFR Flight Plans?
ARINC Direct
- Fri Oct 27, 2017 12:54 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: 26 Oct 2017 - 2 dead after plane crash near Springbank Airport, west of Calgary
- Replies: 84
- Views: 22325
Re: 26 Oct 2017 - 2 dead after plane crash near Springbank Airport, west of Calgary
Wow. You can hear the stress in the controller's voice. It must be difficult to keep it together in that kind of situation.
- Thu Oct 26, 2017 7:32 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: 26 Oct 2017 - 2 dead after plane crash near Springbank Airport, west of Calgary
- Replies: 84
- Views: 22325
Re: 26 Oct 2017 - 2 dead after plane crash near Springbank Airport, west of Calgary
I flew in right after it happened and took off again shortly thereafter. The accident site was less than 1 mile south of the departure end of RWY 17 and just slightly east of centreline. Very sad.
- Thu Oct 26, 2017 2:23 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: AC in SFO. Again...
- Replies: 72
- Views: 16751
Re: AC in SFO. Again...
I agree that this is probably nothing more than finger trouble. I found myself in the opposite situation once, having been cleared for takeoff and given the departure frequency, I dialled it in and accidentally hit the swap button. As (bad) luck would have it we did a rejected takeoff and I announce...
- Fri Sep 08, 2017 1:06 pm
- Forum: Employment Forum
- Topic: Will the Canadian "pilot shortage" reach U.S. levels?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6593
Re: Will the Canadian "pilot shortage" reach U.S. levels?
What a shame. All the low time newly minted pilots clamouring for an airline job right off the bat. While the airlines certainly offer predictability and eventually stability, the northern and bush flying I did early in my career remains my favourite work to date. I did have the good fortune to work...
- Fri Sep 08, 2017 12:25 pm
- Forum: Employment Forum
- Topic: 14/3 schedule
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4633
Re: 14/3 schedule
I'd think the bad should be obvious. You only get 3 days off in every 17 days. I see no good in it at all.
- Mon Aug 07, 2017 9:37 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Where to keep logbook
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3261
Re: Where to keep logbook
I keep it in iCloud.
- Tue Jul 11, 2017 1:22 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: AC Lining Up with a Taxiway SFO...?
- Replies: 830
- Views: 111273
Re: AC Lining Up with a Taxiway SFO...?
I can see how this might all be a lot of hoopla about nothing. Flying the approach offset to the right is the correct procedure. I've landed 28R before and kept it offset maybe a little longer than necessary due to another airplane off my left wingtip. Given that 28R is not the usual departure runwa...
- Wed May 24, 2017 7:40 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Halifax crash report coming Thursday
- Replies: 518
- Views: 77741
Re: Halifax crash report coming Thursday
No doubt it was a bad day. That has always been a bad approach with the terrain and misleading lights on the approach. But how about this; for decades, AC and other Operators pilots made thousands of approaches like this without any of the "Magic" which is now available. This was done safely and su...
- Tue May 23, 2017 6:25 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Sunglasses recommendations...?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8822
Re: Sunglasses recommendations...?
I recently lost my prescription sunglasses (also Ray-Ban) and just replaced them. I decided to try something different and got brown tint. I hate it. It makes the EFIS screens look terrible. Once I get back home I'm getting the lenses swapped out for green/grey again. By the sounds of it, you're ove...
- Sun May 21, 2017 6:03 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Halifax crash report coming Thursday
- Replies: 518
- Views: 77741
Re: Halifax crash report coming Thursday
Assuming it's within the limitations of the aircraft, it's often a good idea to leave the autopilot on a little while longer when transitioning to visual cues below MDA/DH. In poor visibility conditions it's easy to drift above or below the glide path otherwise.
- Fri May 19, 2017 4:56 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Halifax crash report coming Thursday
- Replies: 518
- Views: 77741
Re: Halifax crash report coming Thursday
Does that help? You should have taken a course on humility while you were at it. If pilots of your generation never succumbed to human error and CFIT was merely a recent phenomenon, perhaps you'd be justified in all your pontificating. Nobody goes to work intending to have an accident, and I believ...