DHC-1 Jockey, What you have is a good idea with a poor plan for implementation. The good idea is to reduce the output of the FTUs. The bad idea is to do it via superfluous academic requirements. Academic study does not a good pilot make. You really don't need much more than grade 10 math to be a lin...

An excellent piece of journalism that includes ........ Which brings us back to: As for the CBC expressing an opinion. I suspect that I would have more success getting a blind man to understand the concept of mauve that I would in getting you to see the CBC for what it is. Seriously guys, I posted ...

Oh, what the hell. It's only a matter of time before you get this thread locked anyway. Here ya go.
[url]http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2012-2013/2012/ ... r.html/url]

I'm not sure where your "20 years of neglect" comment comes from - on an inflation-adjusted basis, i.e. using 2012 dollars, spending fell from 1988 through about 2001, then increased every year from 2001 to 2010 inclusive before reducing slightly in 2011 (I don't have 2012 figures yet). The 2011 sp...

I didn't ask for your opinion on the F-35, I asked you to provide a single instance where the CBC expressed any kind of opinion of it of any kind, political or otherwise. Well Dude, here's the thing. The title of the thread is "The F-35 is not dead", not, "The CBC is a self perpetuating lobby group...

The CBC is pointedly apolitical both out of mandate and necessity. :smt044 :smt044 :smt044 :smt044 :smt044 :smt044 :smt044 :smt044 :smt044 :smt046 Thanks Dude, that was just the laugh I needed to start my new year. As for the F35, I don't have an opinion for or against. All I'm saying is that the F...

Speaking of, does anyone know of where one could aquire some good videos on frostbite and hypothermia? Preferably graphic ones. Contact your local community college and try to speak to one of the EMT/paramedic instructors. If memory serves their text books have the sort of pictures you are looking ...

'Course, working for DND, and wanting those shiny new toys so badly, you've got a really accurate and unbiased view of what those social programs do. Hm, a soldier that wants the tools to do his job properly. Cashier the disloyal bastard. Mind you, it's also why we don't let the CBC decide on DND's...

Good points Frosti. Perhaps it's time someone explained to the powers that be that defending the nation requires money and a radical shift in thinking.

Here's a little bit of heresy to think on. Why are we so insistent on operating only a single type? Get something suitable for doing intercepts over the high arctic, and another type for multi role missions. Yes, yes; That would be costly, and might require cut backs at the CBC or that the average b...

Rum soaked or not, his rants usually have better content and more entertainment value than most others (mods included).

Doc,

I'm getting around to setting up that thing we talked about. Been busy mudding the drywall in my basement.

shimmydampner wrote:Yeah! All those civilian flights can suck it.

Well, if you want to pony up the extra taxes for a permanent SAR presence in the arctic, I'm sure it could be arranged. If you're really serious about go on a hunger strike and demand that Harper meet with you to discuss it for a week or two.

Colonel Sanders wrote:Last time Niss and I were playing Dungeons & Dragons,
he told me that it was part of SETI.

Geek. All the cool kids play Risk.

NAV CANADA contracts Environment Canada to produce GFAs, TAFs, and other avation forecasts. Your complaints should go to the forecasters, not the information distributor. Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 5:38 am My complaint is going to the guy that is charging me for something and then delivering a shitty...

Rockie, I'm not going to introduce that amount of thread drift other than to say if there is genuine political will there is a way.

Azimuth, what has that got to do with aviation?

We've noticed it at work to. Nobody at work has any faith in the GFA anymore.

This other thread might be worth a look see.
viewtopic.php?f=54&t=85903

Rockie, I understand why you think Canada could never defend it's territory against a serious attack. Your thinking is stuck inside a uniquely liberal box.

trampbike wrote:The intention is to procure a fighter to protect us from emerging and future threats. Think Russia, China, North Korea

Bang On.

Akoch, I call BS. Nobody who had successfully trained as an officer of the CF would display such a complete lack of understanding of the CF military ethos. Back to the F35; There are a couple of very good reasons that Canada has not been attacked recently. The first and foremost is geography. There ...