Hanger Talk Survey

[mike53]

Pasted from the COPA National website. Looking for your real world flying experiences.So if you want to contribute your stories,take the survey .

Hangar Talk Survey

Within the aviation industry, a pilot’s number of hours is used to measure his or her expertise. This may be an accurate method of quantifying hands-on piloting skills, but what about the complex thinking skills that are crucially important in the event of non-standard or emergency operations? ...

... To evaluate this issue, a research project is being conducted by Dr. Suzanne Kearns, of the University of Western Ontario, in partnership with Seneca College. The purpose of the research project is to collect several hundred examples of real-world scenarios that pilots have encountered during the course of their flying experience. This is being accomplished via an online survey available at: http://www.hangartalksurvey.com

[Pratt X 3]

Pretty current survey...

Hangar Talk Survey 2010

If you would like to be entered into the prize raffle please enter your name and contact information (phone number or email address) below.

The main raffle prize for this survey is $500 which will be awarded on December 15th,2010. However, all responses submitted before September 30th, 2010 will additionally be entered into an early bird draw for one of two $25 Tim Hortons gift cards.

Keep in mind that your personal information will only be available to representatives from Seneca College’s research office. Researchers will have no way of associating your questionnaire response to your name. Your confidentiality will be protected to the fullest extent by law.

I submitted my experience about the one time I was driving a taxi between flying jobs. I followed my flight attendant girlfriend on a flight so we could talk about fixing things and going back to the way they were. Little did I know that more than half the passengers and all the flight deck crew would get food poisoning and I would be the only person on board who could land the plane. Despite my drinking problem and the frequent flashbacks of losing my squadron mates over Macho Grande, I persevered and landed that airplane. Made me the pilot I am today.

[Hedley]

Wonder what she would make of KK7?!

And stop calling me Shirley.

[Pirate Pilot]

Just a minute....A survey by an accredited university....Gov't MONEY. "A Government of Canada federal GRANT has just been awarded to the participating members of the website "AVCANADA" to assist in the survey by Dr. Suzanne (hehehe) on the afore mentioned blah, blah, blah. The minister is pleased to announced the sum of money (some $7,538,642.50) being arrived by the retired flight instructors of Ontario club and confirmed by Dr. J. HEDLEY Lamarr will be paid (by arrangement) in small bills no larger than $100's on completion of the above mentioned survey" Members of AVCANADA are encouraged to participate to the best of their ability and a measure of recompense (may) be in order. BEEEEGGGG Party at Hedley's...Fly the Pitts, Fly the L39, Fly the 421, It will be grand.

[Hedley]

I once had a runaway Hobbs meter in a rental. It was my most terrifying experience in an airplane, except for that one time at Band Camp when I got a paper cut on my tongue.

Honestly, I had no idea how I was going to come up with the $182,452.68 that I owed the flight school after I landed. I still have nightmares about it. I wake up, screaming at night, the bed sheets all wet, hearing Celine Dion singing in my head.