Doesn't the Rec Permit cut out the cross country requirements of the PPL, though? That's why I thought that there was a restriction... Forgive me - I should just search through the CARs until I find it, but I'm lazy today (actually recovering from being sick yesterday) and hoped that someone may kno...

Unfortunately my weight is on a 2 or 3 years cycle and I am currently at a peak. At my last medical my CAME asked me if I had received the "fat letter" yet?! Apparently they are starting to look at BMI and will sometimes request extra data like cholesterol, etc. He said not to panic if I got it, but...

What are the restrictions on a Rec Pilot Permit - isn't there some kind of limit on cross country distances?
(which would mean that only folks very near the border would benefit from an expansion in cross-border flying)

Brantford Beech Boy wrote:Not sure where the "8 hour duty day" comes from...

That was mostly in response to some previous posters talking about having a "regular" work day

... putting your "time in" is absolute rubbish.... people use their own money to become pilots.. this might be ok if the company you wanted to work for would ultimately pay for your training in exchange for service. Funny, I don't recall any of my (non-flying) employers offering to pay for my unive...

I knew a guy once who was told that a certain company had no pilot jobs, but he asked to be taken on as a ramp guy (which they were in fact looking for). After working for them for a while, when a pilot job came open, they already knew that he was (a) a hard worker, (b) a nice guy to be around, and ...

You're right on the money, AOC - I often have a group of people who have say 4 legs planned (each less than 1 hr) and who anticipate being only an hour or so at each intermediate stop. So looking at that chart, if they get delayed, I don't know if I'd even be able to answer them whether we'd be able...

I think I logged mine at 50% when I applied for my ATPL. They didn't give me any flak, but I was way above the minimum requirements. Here on the east coast, 10% would be a totally absurd amount - we get a lot of fog and low clouds a lot of the time.

They may not require a cert in your logbook, but I knew different folks who would just ask the Chief Pilot/CFI to certify their hours after doing a chunk of time like that. They just write a line that says something along the lines of "I certify all times flown herein with xx club are correct" and s...

The rule of thumb would very much apply to where you are doing most of your flying - down east we have a whole lot more IMC than what you guys are suggesting for a rule of thumb (unlike Wacko who said he might go weeks without logging IFR, I may go weeks without seeing a lick of VMC). I like the tre...

Come out to Halifax, boys! It sits way outside the city and is as easy as pie to find.
Course if you're taking a cab into town it'll cost you $50....

Did they not take out a power pole prior to contacting approach lights? If so then those lights as well as runway lights would have gone dark as the impact with the power pole did cause a power outage at the airport. Or were the approach lights on a different feed. That power line is a different sy...

photofly wrote:I"m going to guess it's not going to be attached to an airplane.

Is it?

That's what has me worried....

Mach7 - do you fly larger aircraft or are you in the same boat as I am, which is preferring step-down to SCDA (but not having to choose anyway since all of our company aircraft have LPV)?

Still looking for comments on difficulty in step-downs on something of significant weight.....

Is anyone else a wee bit scared that someone who is playing with electricity doesn't know what the hardware he wants is called or if certain variants exist?

Not that I know the answer, but I'm not about to try and build something electrical.....

It is because the MAP and the VDP (visual descent point) are different for an aircraft with an approach GS of 130-140 kts. If you see the runway coincident with the MAP there is zero chance of a stabilized approach to landing. And big airplanes that are not stable on approach is a leading contribut...

Excellent point, Mach7 - I personally didn't see the problem with the step down vs the confusion of the SCDA, but since I only fly light twins I can't comment on the "dangers and difficulties" that are supposed to be intrinsic to a step-down on a large aircraft. It's really only recently that TC man...

We have had several individuals working for the company I fly for who came out of school with a horrendous amount of debt and found out that with a beginning pilot job they were living below the poverty line and still couldn't pay off their debt. Most ended up quitting flying and going to get traini...

Wow - you guys have given me a lot to think about (and some of it has to do with how people need to at least be more civil on this forum - rudeness does NOT give your opinion more weight!) That being said - I get where Rockie is coming from, but it seems to relate more to a non-precision approach (i...

The lawsuit fails to target Transport Canada who wrote the regulations permitting approaches with 50% of the published visibility in the first place. Those regulations and the wholly inadequate required visual references to complete a landing are the real culprits here. Tightening those up might fo...