Any current airline pilot’s trip to where they are today will have, for better or worse, been different from what you will do. This is okay. Opportunities change over time, do what’s best for yourself at any given time but don’t forget to have a life along the way.

Does equipment matter at Jazz? Step one: hit. Step two: quit.

I thought the Max flew fine but sucked at being broken. Do these flights even prove anything we don’t already know?

Just have a means of separating that time later if you need to and in the meantime just keep flying.

Do your homework and don’t let yourself fall behind. Seconded, and I can’t stress that enough. College was the first time I took my homework seriously (figured if I was paying I owed it to myself to do the whole course) and I made sure it was done immediately after class and before dinner every day...

co-joe wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 08, 2020 3:33 pm

It seems to me, the PFO rate is at an all time high

If true, you could also take that as HR taking more risks on who they invite to interview. Casting a wider net should result in more PFOs.

corethatthermal wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 06, 2020 10:45 pm

Freighter?

Kalitta I believe has palletized seating and I assume a history of moving a bunch of troops that way. Just don’t let them sucker you into paying extra for a window seat.

Possibly my favourite part of all this is Flair’s announcement of the sale on Facebook. You don’t have to scroll too far through the comments before you get to people complaining that Flair doesn’t offer service to/from where they want to go and what’s Flair going to do to remedy this??!! Obviously...

Possibly my favourite part of all this is Flair’s announcement of the sale on Facebook. You don’t have to scroll too far through the comments before you get to people complaining that Flair doesn’t offer service to/from where they want to go and what’s Flair going to do to remedy this??!!

Gear Jerker wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 03, 2020 1:56 pm

Back up landing gear lmfaoooo

It’s a crappy way to explain to the public that thanks to dual wheels you can land and taxi in without every passenger being killed or worse. I expect the news agencies were told there are redundancies on every system of a modern airliner, including the wheels.

Also if you’re going to lie to them you better be good at it. Like, sociopath-level good. Get acquitted of murder on your own testimony alone-level good.

PostmasterGeneral wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 27, 2020 8:35 am

We really oughtta just nuke that whole corner of the globe.. oh wait, there’s oil there. Nevermind.

Would it be cheaper/easier to drill a well if you were starting from the bottom of a crater?

Nah, you have to remember that internet people are like dogs that bark from behind a fence.

fish4life wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 21, 2020 3:44 pm

Which makes no sense that tall people aren’t afforded the same luxury for exit row etc

Can relate. The distance from the back of my ass to the front of my knee when seated is longer than the seat pitch in a decent number of airliners. Good times.

goingnowherefast wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 20, 2020 2:56 pm

Salt water on the coast is a no-go, 415s aren't like a Beaver you can rebuild every couple years to deal with corrosion.

I’ve seen an ex-European 215 that lived a life of salt water. There are actual holes in the hull from corrosion, it’s amazing.

The other day I was travelling and managed to get ‘randomly selected’ for further search. Fine, whatever, that’s what we live with now. One of the options I was given by the female CATSA agent was a pat-down from a male agent. While I don’t care who pats me down, I guess it’s a policy of theirs to m...

A321 wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 20, 2020 10:53 pm

Truly, I had no idea the "Plus Size" passenger holds all the cards.

Now you know. Do you have any suggestions for a practical fix for this problem?

photofly wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 13, 2020 11:38 pm

Fine. But with no instruments, how do you know how much and which rudder to use, genius?

The Cessna 150 manual has a procedure for this.

Daniel Cooper wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 12, 2020 10:06 am

So who got woken up by the Nuclear alert? Seems like it was just sent in error.

I think if I was about to be in big trouble for a near nuclear disaster down in sector 7G that I too would try to play the warning off as an error.

Is TC even hip enough to accept an electronic PTR from the school? They still have to send them in when complete, don’t they?

Rooster69 wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 12, 2020 9:23 am

No one is going to send an anonymous person any information about active or retired Air Canada, or any other companies’ pilots.

Well, not for free anyways

freakonature wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 11, 2020 7:58 pm

I see it has an event button? What might that be used for?

Since it looks like it’s out of the NRC I’d guess that button puts a tag of some sort on data that’s being recorded.

I bet you saw Mylar party balloons. They tend to flop on their sides when set free and in my experience enough helium to make them nicely buoyant at ground level is just enough to get them to level off somewhere around 1,000 - 2,000 feet AGL.

So less than an instrument rating but more than VFR OTT?