In France... I believe they speak English for ATC communications. In Québec... you have the choice E/F. :rolleyes: Oh, and the premium for ATC who are required to be bilingual is $800 per year! Not worth it! In France, communications are made in French. English is only used by ATC with foreign airc...

In France... I believe they speak English for ATC communications. In Québec... you have the choice E/F. :rolleyes: Oh, and the premium for ATC who are required to be bilingual is $800 per year! Not worth it! In France, communications are made in French. English is only used by ATC with foreign airc...

Just discovered this bad news now : I feel so sad. He was clearly one of the greatest, a true gentleman pilot and instructor.
All my condoleances to his family and friends.
I owe you a beer. Will miss you.
RIP Peter

Here it is:

http://aviation-safety.net/database/rec ... 20070708-0

As medi-whacked, I am kind of surprised by the way propellers are bent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR-uyJ1kYeQ

Vancouver 2010 : " Do you believe ? " :x Sightseeing float-plane tours banned Security risks cited, operators expect to lose 'hundred of thousands' Damian Inwood, The Province: Thursday, November 26, 2009 Rick Antonson of Tourism Vancouver says the grounding of float-plane charters during the Olympi...

Arrival of the first airbus A380 in the Air France fleet • Very large seating capacity for 538 passengers • Improved comfort, quieter and more spacious • One of the most environmentally-friendly aircraft Today, Air France is taking delivery of its first Airbus A380, the world’s largest airliner, wh...

We have 30 minutes only because the regulation says it so : this is not a limitation coming from the technology, they just have to change the duration for the CVR. On an A320, you have around 40 hours of flight datas (more than 100 parameters) on a simple 128 mb disc coming from the QAR, which is wa...

Due to its very high level of flight, cosmic radiations were a concern in the Concorde. If I am not mistaken, they had instruments to measure those radiations in the cockpit, and had to report the level/time of exposure to these radiations on a log. There's an interesting page from British Airways a...

Apparently, even TC doesn't know : here is the answer I received in 2008 from TC. Thank you for your query. Cross country flight time is any flight that you will conduct, that will require you to navigate along a route to a destination. Transport Canada does not specifically define this term but giv...

I think you should be able to find your answers on the following forum : http://japanpilots.19.forumer.com/

Interview of Pierre-Henri Gourgeon, CEO of Air France : (sorry, in french) http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2009/07/08/01016-20090708ARTFIG00504-af-447-tous-les-scenarios-du-drame-vont-etre-analyses-.php AF 447 : «Tous les scénarios du drame vont être analysés» Propos recueillis par Fabrice A...

Bob, what is your source ? There's nothing in the french medias about this couple since they arrived. In typing her name (Amina Ben Ouargha-Jaffiol) I don't find any trace of this kind of event. About their arrival in France http://www.midilibre.com/articles/2009/06/03/20090603-FRANCE-MONDE-ML-Les-m...

Pilot dies in small plane crash By THE CANADIAN PRESS PORT HOPE SIMPSON, N.L. - The pilot of a small, twin-engine plane was killed Sunday when the aircraft crashed in southeastern Labrador, about eight kilometres short of its destination. The unidentified pilot was the only person aboard, said an of...

When CTV reports the opposite story of what has happened... If you read the press realease n°12 from Air France, and then you read these sentences in the article, there is really to worry about the information we receive every day. CTV "... The French agency investigating the crash, BEA, said Saturd...

Last official press release from Air France concerning the Pitot : " * Paris, 06 June 2009 - 23:09 local time Press release N° 12 Update on anemometric sensors Following the many questions which have appeared in the media on the issue of the Pitot probes in its fleet (the Pitot probe is an instrumen...

4. Crew incapacitation. Then flew straight into a very large cell on autopilot. (maybe one in the bunk, two sleeping on the flightdeck) Might explain the lack of communication with ATC, or other aircraft, and the inability to recover from flying into a very large cell. Other aircraft in the area ne...

A detailed meteorological analysis about this flight :

http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim/af447/

Here is the CVR audio file : [url]mms://play.ansa.it/interviste/atr1.wma[/url]

And the final report : http://www.ansv.it/En/Detail.asp?ID=1083

If you like it, this is a 2005 french movie "Les Chevaliers du Ciel".

But Dreamers/Jack Savoretti on your link is not an original song of the soundtrack.

Great initiative guys. I'm in. It'll be by mail.

My best wishes to you Kirsten and good luck finding the job you want !
Merry Christmas !

They just found a third body.

AuxBatOn : Dire que la réglementation canadienne sur l'immigration est très relax par rapport à la réglementation Européenne, c'est très mal connaître l'Europe ! Une fois franchie une des frontières de l'Espace Shengen, tu ne verras plus aucune douane lors du franchissement d'un nouveau pays. Les po...

Si le visa était "donné à tout le monde", il n'existerait pas de procédure de sélection : hors, ce n'est pas le cas. Il faut compter environ un an pour un Français, jusqu'à environ 3 ans de procédure pour quelqu'un venant d'Afrique par exemple. Et si tu vas sur les forums concernant l'immigration au...