All that extra "granny gas" cuts payload. Payload pays the bills. Operational dispatch complies with regulation (20, 30, 45) and contingencies, sometimes even using "dynamic contingency recalculation" at an intermediate location on the flight plan route to save even more. Tankering isn't uncommon, e...

That 45 minutes reserve is a planning figure for departure, not a landing minimum. A landing minimum may be specified in an ops manual, but it is not regulatory. 45 minutes is a dinosaur from the days where you guessed the winds and didn't know your ground speed, or fuel or fuel burn with any accura...

Thanks for the link CpnCrunch, interesting read. How to incorporate into flight training? Like VRS, LTS is always there nibbling at the edges of utility work (bucketing, doing log booms pirouette with 25 knots of wind at 20'), you develop a 'feel' for it and never let it fully develop. Wouldn't say ...

Not impressed with the fire suppression response at Langley. Isn't there a response standard for that category airport, as shown in the CFS? The airport is in the middle of town, surrounded by fire stations. If the pilot hadn't gotten out he would have be toast, no pun intended. And what about train...

WTF is Maj. Emmanuelle Gratton, an Air Task Force Commander, talking about "not all aircraft have transmitters". Irresponsibly ambiguous for a SAR Commander. Why is tracking so discouraged by the aviation authority in Canada? FWIW, all operators I fly for insist on it. Anyway, you doubters can see t...

Anyone flying privately or commercially in the 21st century without Sat tracking is a fool. Sat-based ADSB in Canada provides pretty good tracking but lots of cheaper options too.

Wreckage spread ( 2 km) suggests inflight breakup.

Need more info. Gulfstream departs 06L after the 787 and causes a conflict because of flying runway track instead of heading??? So busting the 250 knot limit wasn't a more significant factor? Do we assume the 787 was told to fly runway track or heading? There can't be a significant difference to lat...

Yep, one RVR only on the ILS , below limits so approach ban, if we felt lucky we'd try the opposite runway (no rvr, no ban). But seriously, long runways can have localized weather and the other end might work out. Tools in your toolbox.

What, no Flair bashers concluding fatigue on this one??

Bwahahaha

There are thousands of jobs that practically require longer shifts. No doubt you could suggest "Fatigue" as a factor for every airplane crash. But airline flying, really?? Sit back in a lazy-boy seat (sheepskin covers, mmmm) all day, hand fly a couple minutes every few hours, maybe a sore pinky from...

Maybe an engineer can explain the findings to me. It wasn't corrosion, it wasn't maintenance inspection frequency, it wasn't the elevator spar. It was a the safety ring snap that locks a locknut, allowing the threaded barrel to back out until the elevator control disconnected.That component would ha...

Once again I find myself questioning a TSB report -seems to say that they flew in icing conditions, iced up, and fell out of the sky. Doesn't jive. Stall speed on a 231 is 57 knots, it was flying more than double that at 114, lots of margin. The report doesn't say what approach was being flown, so a...

It probably should be said here that there are very significant differences in flying a fixed wing at night, and a helicopter at night, especially one eager to chop its own tail off. Yeah, helicopters don't really have the same positive stability as an airplane. In IMC or night without a horizon it...

Try a boat marina or farm gas, they typically are no-ethanol and you save road tax. Test with a few drops of food coloring and swish. Check the octane, usually it's around 90 which is good for the C150, and pretty close to the 91 required for a 160 hp O320 -especially if you mix with some residual 1...

Overweight has as much relevance as whether or not the news reporter writing it was overweight. Did not cause the crash. In fact that they got to Ontario proves they were handling the weight competently. More troubling is their ground track and the implications to flight conditions. But how much ove...

TSB going hang the pilot for a GFA? It is always pessimistic- you'd never fly winter. The TAF at both ends wasn't bad, and the METARS even better. The 182 that took off from the farm strip looking for him didn't seem to have any difficulty getting up, seeing the burning crash from several miles away...

Everybody was transporting passengers and freight with their private aircraft and private licenses during the fall floods in BC. And there is provision for some compensation in CARS (costs offset), conditions ignored by both the pilots and the regulators. Ratting out a fellow pilot, compiling eviden...

Does anyone know if this was the pilots airplane?

No. Pilot has been identified and the airplane owner has been identified on the media links posted (CBC, Vancouver Sun, etc).

The irony that by choosing GA he incurred the same penalty he was trying to avoid.