It appears some crow eating is required on my part. As it also appears things have changed very much for the worse since I retired.
I had heard that TC and NavCanada management where being a bunch of pricks these days but I was unaware as to the extent.

My apologies to all concerned.

SP

Hey grand poppa, if you ask and ask the same pilot over and over again politely what you're required to have (by CAR's) and they still mess it up. Then ya, write them up. Maybe then they will learn how to do their job! Correct young Grasshopper. :D But you sure as hell don't have to do it the first...

Considering how many people I've had to write up for not calling 5 minutes prior to the estimated time of starting an IFR approach lately... I HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO WRITE YOU UP . You've just told me you've violated CARs. Did anyone ever tell you that you were hired as a Flight Service Specialist N...

Boss Hawg wrote:Probably a dumb question but while we're on the topic here, what's ROFL mean?

ROFL: Roll On the Floor Laughing.

ROFLMAO: Roll On the Floor Laughing My Ass Off.

Check out this link for all you ever wanted to know about Internet Acronyms
http://www.gaarde.org/acronyms/?lookup=A

You missed one.
Retired.
Or does that fall under unemployed

I am not sure that this is all that unusual.
Here is a similar shot that I captured at Calgary in 2003. There was nothing unusual at all about the landing.


Cheers
Steve

OK, so the ERAA has been trying to close CYXD since the 60's...damn!! G Ah………both airports were run by Transport Canada until about 1990. The ERAA has been running them since. I guess you could say XD has been in a slow decline since 1942 when there were about 1500 landings in 24 hours :wink: . O.K...

J31, with all due respect my man U can't blame the current situation at YXD on that "one operator". Admittedly they did push the ERAA, but if you remember there was a time not too long ago when full 737's flew into XD. The ERAA has been trying to close XD ever since they built the International...i...

lilfssister wrote:

swordfish wrote:

Then that would be YMM...home of the ghost ATC tower

Ghost ATC tower

The tower NavCanada closed and then moved the flight service staff into?

Blue Streak wrote:Hi,does anyone have any photos of Jetsgo aircraft by chance?

There are 339 of them if you go to Airliners.net and do a search for Jetsgo.
http://www.airliners.net/

CAL wrote:ok what the hell is a blog?.....and what is her website:)
To be an airline pilot...........ahhhhh

A blog, or online diary.

Link to her Blog: http://queenofsky.journalspace.com/ but don't bother trying it as thousands of others are trying to access it and overloading the server. bang head

Quote from the BBC website, "Ms Simonetti was suspended on 25 September pending an investigation and has since lodged a complaint with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)."
Working link:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3955913.stm

Tower Controller in a former life.
Now nuthin' I just enjoy life, I'm retired.

Plane moving too slowly before takeoff, investigators say. A Boeing 747 cargo plane that crashed last week while taking off from Halifax International Airport was not travelling fast enough to lift off safely, investigators into the accident say. Full story at any one of the following three URL's: h...

So are these the new colours and are all the aircraft going to be painted like this?

On average over the five years up to and including 2003 the average mix of itinerant movements has been approx 84.5% IFR and 15.5% VFR at Calgary International Source Aircraft Movements Statistics Annual Report TP577 available in PDF format at http://www.tc.gc.ca/pol/en/report/TP577/tp577.htm Cheers...

THE faa type who thought up the approach names must have been a Sylvester and Tweety fan. He/she also must have been old enough to remember the black TV star, the late Flip "The Devil Made Me Do It" Wilson I would hazard a guess the FAA had nothing to do with the actual make-up of the approach char...

Yoyoma wrote: Is it:

ITAWT - ITWA - PUDYE - TTATT

I thought I saw a Pussy Cat???

Did you also notice that on the Missed approach you are to climb to 3000 direct IDEED (I did) and hold.

A long time ago when the earth was green there was all kinds of animals... oops sorry I digress. Back in the late seventies Time Air got their new Shorts Skyvans. When the first one arrived in Calgary it was taxiing past the tower when one of the crew proudly asked the ground controller "What do you...

In the early 70's at Fort St. John one day the following was heard.

Tower: Empress xx Cleared to land, check the gear down.

Empress xx: Gears on its way.

Tower: You mean you didn't bring it with you?