Jet Jockey, When did you fail your AC interview? Let it go, move on, and harbour no ill will to those that made the cut. It will be better for you than holding on to this mental anguish. All the best at AT. Cheers. LOL... OK dude I'll bite! For the record I'm not at Air Transat or Sunwing or Westje...

Now with GPS/WAAS we can have LPVs at many airports/runways with ILS like precision in both lateral and vertical guidance with minimums as low as CAT I approaches (200’ AGL) that don’t need any temperature correction like an ILS approach (except of course for your DA/DH correction). In point of fac...

You'd know that had you been reading instead of fuming at the "Air Canada attitude". For the record I was busy writing something else and had not seen your post before submitting mine and it is a well known fact that you do have an "attitude" at Air Canada. In house rules have changed. Good! It loo...

Pull your head out your ass Jet Jockey. I am well aware of AC short sightedness with regard to GPS, and don't think there isn't a lot of internal pressure from many people including yours truly to rectify that and other problems. Those are internal though and they did not directly cause this accide...

75 feet is not much Jack, on a RNAV approach the FAF crossing altitude has to be within 100. The crew did what they were supposed to do, and at MDA they thought they saw what they were supposed to see given Canada's inadequate required visual references and risky approach ban regulations. Too bad n...

After the FAF, they were below the charted altitudes the whole time. Perhaps this could have been caught earlier on and gotten themselves back on the proper path. Don't make it seem trivial the 75' below. The flight path was not once corrected, and they flew the entire final segment below the chart...

It is my understanding that the newer Airbus delivered to Air Canada did have the GPS/WAAS system.

The older versions did not but I think since the accident they have perhaps started a retrofit to them.

170 to xray wrote:I heard they were being replaced with Bombardier product.

I also hear the pilots were told that their jobs were safe until July!

DAC is done. Textron repo'd their airplanes. Not the version I heard. I would not believe anything when it comes to DAC... One thing is for sure, the aircrafts were flown back to Cessna. One story goes they were in talks with Bombardier to get some of their aircrafts and Cessna learned about it and...

Simple question...

Can the Airbus 320 pilots on this forum tell us what is the minimum altitude AGL for autopilot use is when conducting a NON precision approach?

"The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) will hold a news conference on 18 May 2017 to make public its investigation report (A15H0002) into the 29 March 2015 collision with terrain involving Air Canada Flight 624 at the Halifax Stanfield International Airport, Nova Scotia." When: 18 May 2017...

Sad... Very sad!

That male flight attendant was a lose canon. At least the captain seemed to be more involved in this case. If I were the captain of this flight I would have told that attendant to get off the aircraft regardless of the facts so as to "buy peace" with the other passengers.

In the first incident on the takeoff out of EBBR, they rejected at 82 kts and returned the aircraft to the gate.

In the incident out of Montreal for London they actually continued the takeoff... The wheel was found somewhere down runway 06L.

I see SIDs and STARS filed on most of our flight plans, especially when they are complicated like in Europe.

Continue and landed in LHR minus the wheel.

Another A330 did a reject takeoff in EBBR for the same reason about a month ago.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/ ... -1.4073463

There maybe two operators in Canada paying north of $200K. Unless you know someone, good luck getting on. If you don't mind flight planning, setting up customs, making hotel, rental car, limo arrangements, getting catering, getting aircraft ready, updating flt plans, and customs multiple times beca...

Both types of jobs have their "pros" and "cons"... There are only two real airlines in Canada, Air Canada and Westjet. 1- If you are for arguments sake at Air Canada or Westjet with lots of seniority and you have a good salary with good benefits then I'd say to stay put. 2- If you are at a regional ...

A 182 also crosses the threshold at 75kts? All the bells and whistles make up for the fact that you're probably crossing the numbers at 130-140? I'm no expert on 604, but can't you get CAT II approval? Yes we have CAT II authority here in Canada, the USA and Europe for both 604 and 704 ops. CAT II ...

In this day and age I can't believe with all the equipment we have in our aircrafts (WAAS, LPV capable, HUD, EVS and auto pilots certified to 50' AGL) that as a 604 operator with professionally trained crews, we are still using a CAT I minimums (1200' RVR/quarter of a mile and a 200' DA), the same a...

I am OK with the 12 hours off duty between flights (we already use that). 12 hour off duty break down: 30 minutes after the flight to shut down the aircraft, paperwork, etc. 45 minute drive home. 8 hours of sleep. 45 minutes in the morning to shower, shave, eat and get ready. 45 minutes to drive bac...