I think in From The Ground Up it said something about most GA aircraft are designed to handle something like a crosswind component of 20% of the stall speed so if that 15 knot wind ended up perpendicular 90 degrees to the runway while you are on short final it might be a problem. During the crappy w...

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Thumbs up for the Harv's Air pilottraining.ca thing. I did the PPL thing --- I'm not sure if you they can actually verify if your logged on online time (or if you are actually awake) but for PPL one you will absolutely spend more than 80 hours watching and studying all the videos and passing all the...

The way I understand it --- a lot of instructors are time building for their airline dreams. Why would an instructor want to put their student in a simulator?? Does that not take away their PIC time? Perhaps the school has serious maintenance issues or all their airplanes are currently being used? P...

I'll have to throw the "Where's the best flight training school in Calgary?....Or am I totally deluded to even think of training there?" questions back at the original poster :wink: I suspect all the schools in the CYYC or CYBW area are questionable as seen from the lack of recommendations from anyo...

I'd be careful about that. I went to this one place, took the ground school but because of an instructor shortage hardly got to fly at all --- the place was way too busy. There was a guy who sat next to me in ground school who actually went into a partnership with his pilot buddy and bought a plane ...

I was at work at an oil company as usual. I've watched the CBC news just Sunday and here's how they explain it: Somebody came up with the idea of selling really low rate mortgages to American families...the catch is that it's like those credit cards with a low "introductory" rate (but these rates sk...

Springbank Aero Flight Training at the ESSO... guaranteed availability the same day ;) Yeah --- I used to fly at the CFC but gave it up and hope to do it somewhere else and also still waiting out the whole instructor shortage thing. Considering how busy CYBW is --- I wonder why Springbank Aero is s...

Canadian PPL involves doing spins and spin recovery -- FAA does not. FAA allows you to design your own aircraft AND FLY it with-out Government design checks and without a license (as a far as I know it from back in the 90's)!! BOTTOM LINE: Canadian standands are stricter and in my opinon "safer"! Th...

Yeah---the poster before me said there's an internal server error...looks like TC is doing some maintenance stuuf over the weekend and hopes to have things running during "prime time" week day office hours. I haven't read those CADORS links but I hear what you are saying. I have my own business and ...

Well...let's take a different spin on things :mrgreen: and look at it from at least a dating prospective. I think being a pilot is a "cool" job (at least in most people's eyes). Wouldn't you want a gal that hooks up with you because you're cool instead of one that hooks up with you for your cash? Mo...

If you are willing to bash china for what they are doing in that country, you have to be willing to purchase products that are only made in canada, US, New Zealand, Australia, european countries. boycott wall mart and these other corporations who thrive off of sweatshops and NEED them to stay in bu...

Isn't it about time everyone stop trying to fool themselves that everything in the world need to be 'perfect' to be enjoyable? Imperfection can be beautiful. My wife isn't a beauty model but I love her all the same. Do we need a 'perfect' fireworks display, do we need to see a full stadium to be ha...

... and people wonder why they take 50 hours to solo, and 100 hours to their private pilot licence There is absolutely no motivation for an instructor to do otherwise. If an instructor spends an excessive amount of time with a student, they earn more money, and are less likely to have Transport com...

I was going to take helicopter lessons many years back and pondered the differences between fixed wing and rotary wing. One question I had was -- what happens if a helicopter engine quits?? Well you are supposed to "auto-rotate" down to safety. Then I hear of choppers going down killing all passenge...

I just wanted to say that -- although I have never met anyone at Harv's -- and only exposure was through their web training program -- I spoke to Adam a few month's back (after ejecting from my former FTU) -- that Adam seems to be a hands-on" guy and a "straight-shooter". I signed onto my former FTU...

http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/calgarybusiness/story.html?id=a231b2bc-937c-47e8-8b91-8e94eed6b59f Pilots face fines for quitting jobs Herald News Services Published: Saturday, July 12, 2008 Chen Jianguo quit his job as a pilot for Xiamen Airlines Co. after working 90 days straight. His emp...

Hi Haz: Where I'm at -- I paid like $200 per flight including 1/2 hr briefing and 1 hr flight. I would've paid $300 if it were to be done right from instructors getting fair good wage and if that's what took to keep the AME's and aircraft running so I would feel safe renting from the place. I'd say ...

I can't believe what's happening to the training industry?? I heard Harv's got closed (by TC) but then Pennisulair?? I understand economics and can afford the training...my theory is that a lot of the old timers (or at least people who run FTU's come from the Walmart school of thinking -- drop price...

OH MY GOD!!!

I've always heard good things about them. I took their ground online ground-school and it was the best dollar I spent in training and they won my respect.

How the hell can TC shut them down instead of the place I was at??

This has to be bogus!

Tell me it ain't so!

WTF!!

Instead of visiting Walmart tonight -- I decided to go to the Calgary Stampede and invest in some homegrown economy. I ended up paying $9 for a cheese-burger and $8 per Budweiser, spent something like $55 on a cowboy hat (Made in Mexico) and bought a few shirts which inadvertently went to the Chines...

Okay, folks; I'm going to go ahead and call today The Point Of No Return. Global economic power will now firmly and permanently switch from the West to the East. Thank you, all you Walmart-shopping, lowest-possible-price-hunting, non-voting, fucking idiots. You will now see, from this point forward...

Thanks guys -- I didn't know that coasting in gear on a standard transmission fuel injected car does not actually use gas. By doing some of those hypermiling things I managed to get my milage from 9.4 Litres/100 km down to 7.5 Litres/100 Km (according to my car's computer) and managed to get my fuel...

Hi There! That thread about the Toyota Prius vs. Hummer kinda inspired me to write this and ask a couple of questions. There is a new practice out there called hypermiling (meaning to drive in the most gas saving efficient way possible to squeeze the most out of every drop of gas). I know most of yo...

“at the end of the day if you're not a well informed consumer you deserve to be ripped off... i think.” I think a lot of people actually did their research and ended up in a mess anyways. As Tizz mentioned in the original post – these are International students fleeing “big brand name schools across...