Sad to hear. That guy was a legend! I had my first few medicals done by him when I started flying around the year 2000, and I remember wondering "how old is this guy?". Anyone know? Quite a colourful guy.

Hi there, I’ll take a stab at answering your questions. 1) 4-5 months max for seasonal operations. Mid May at the earliest to mid October at the latest - in Ontario this would be an operator where you got on at the start of the year and stayed till the end of hunting season. I’d imagine the season w...

The opposite of this are the folks who try to say as much as possible, as fast as possible, making their transmission completely incoherent.

There’s a happy medium between these two ends of the spectrum.

LifeAt90Kts wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 8:01 pm Floats! Lots and lots and LOTS of float time.

Yup, good advice. Plus a good bit of multi, and flying boat time too if you can get it (if you're wanting to be on a 215/415). Fire fighting is one of the most recession proof sub industries in aviation.

I've worked for them both, as well as Thunderhook. Wabakimi Outfitters specializes in canoe trips, whereas is it a bit of a side gig for Mattice Lake. Wabakimi doesn't have their own planes, but Mattice does. So if you're wanting to fly, Mattice might be a better bet. That said, working for Bruce he...

Maybe it’s just me, but at first glance this looks a lot like the accident in Kingston a few weeks ago, ie a private US based plane, flying at or near dark in questionable weather.

From what I’ve seen, most operators have responded to the shortage of pilots by lowering hour requirements, with the results we are now seeing. Compared to 5-10 years ago, jobs now are abundant and minimums practically non existent. The other response from operators would be to increase pay for expe...

There were some interviews about this on local radio with the CEO of Harbour Air and the CEO of MagniX. They said that for every hour of flying it will take 45 minutes to recharge. The Beaver will have about an hour and a half worth of endurance, so enough to do a Vancouver - Victoria round trip. TB...

I thought this may have been an early April Fool's article when I saw the headline. From the Globe and Mail. Top seaplane airline Harbour Air switching to battery-powered aircraft IAN BAILEY VANCOUVER PUBLISHED 5 HOURS AGO UPDATED MARCH 25, 2019 15 COMMENTS Open this photo in gallery Greg McDougall,...

By the fall this will all have blown over and be such a distant memory that nobody will remember much or anything at all about the MAX. Unless of course Boeing doesn't fix the issue and it stays in the news for a few more months. People have short memories, and getting shorter.

DAR, I appreciate your perspective as someone who has been through a real life situation. I don't know the specifics of your incident, but I am interested to know how you came to be ejected. Did a seat belt fail, or was the event just that violent? I presume the ejection path would be forward? On mo...

In a floatplane accident, you are statistically much, much more likely to be trapped upside down in a cabin full of water than you are to be ejected. No doubt that in the rare ejection situation having the jacket already on is going to help. My issue is that they are using the many examples of peopl...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/life-jackets-mandatory-seaplanes-transport-canada-1.5044938 It’s been a long time coming, so not a total surprise. Still, I don’t see how life jackets would have helped in the Lyall Harbour example they use in the article, or the many other cases where...

I want to hear more about this $12,000/month Beaver job in Atlin.

It's because North West Company, a major cargo customer of Calm Air in particular, bought North Star Air and will be cancelling their cargo contracts with Calm and other EIC carriers.

FIOL, GDDJ, FHUZ and FUAZ.

Very interesting to hear what the flying was like in those days and the histories of some of the planes. Things sure are different now. You are right about MXR, it is on the coast. I have a few hours in it from when it worked out of Port McNeill. I had a passenger on board one day, a former pilot wh...

http://avherald.com/h?article=4456bd6b&opt=0 A LOT Polish Airlines Boeing 767-300, registration SP-LPC performing flight LO-16 from Newark,NJ (USA) to Warsaw (Poland) with 230 people on board, was on approach to Warsaw's runway 33 when the crew aborted the approach at 3000 feet reporting an unsafe g...

I found this statement from one of the survivors interesting.

In a telephone interview with CBC News, passenger Loralie Sobolik said the first sign of trouble was a leak she spotted as she was boarding the plane, but said the pilot told her there was nothing to worry about.

Pasco Gooses lined up outside the museum in Port Hardy. I mean hangar. Hangar! The airplanes are lined up outside the hangar. My goodness, how embarrassing.

A little air to air fun earlier today.

A few Beavers getting ready to do morning skeds.

Nice! Shots on and off the water are much harder to come by. Nice B+W effect. Where and when and which machine?

One last goose shot then I'll stop.

I've got a couple of bags which I can choose from, depending on the mission. A big backpack which holds everything - nice to have everything in one place, but not always so portable or convenient. If space is limited or I'm on a day trip I'll take a smaller bag which can hold a body with a telephoto...