I know most people here think I know as much about aviation as a retarded chimpanzee, but before your next flight I would pull the cowls and do a careful inspection for an exhaust leak. Regardless of opinions about retarded chimpanzees and my intellectual impairment, exhaust leaks can be very seriou...

Where did they close towers during that same time?

Whatever. You asserted that they didn't, which is obviously false. If you're going to try to represent mis-truths as the facts, you're going to have to work a little harder.

Sudbury tower closed recently IIRC. I guess it doesn't count? Didn't the Mirabel tower close, too? Those are just the ones near me. I'm sure there are plenty of other across the country.

what's the downside in not voting, as a protest Hold on a sec. Not voting is NOT a protest - at least, no one registers it as such. Instead it's apathy. Is your time so valuable you really don't have 15 minutes on voting day? no one is counting spoiled ballots Don't rationalize apathy. You underest...

freelance Class 1 instructors who teach on their own private plane

umm ... that's a contravention of CAR 406.03(1) so I don't think you will find many people doing it.

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The flow of data is important to aviation safety, bizjets101 - I get that.

But your excitement over a fatal crash is getting a tad creepy.

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TC doesn't do many private/commercial flight tests any more, unless they're monitoring a new examiner. It's a bit unusual, because of the prevalence of designated pilot examiners in industry. Most people would look around for one of those, first.

Never used it in 20 yrs of IFR flying.

Weirdest thing I probably ever did (wrt civilian IFR) was formation IFR. ATC thought that was pretty strange.

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And on that note, Conrad Black just observed: All parties may wish to remember that Belgium is functioning quite normally, as it approaches its 300th consecutive day without a government. It could be Belgium’s greatest political contribution to the world since it bravely resisted German aggression i...

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Is it cheating to alter your diet beforehand?

Ok, I got niss all wound up.

Who's next?

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