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- Wed Jan 27, 2021 7:06 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Sketchy Flight.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 840
Re: Sketchy Flight.
At 8,000 feet ASL how close to shore would you want to fly a 182?
- Mon Jan 18, 2021 11:47 am
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: Fleet 80 wing struts....
- Replies: 5
- Views: 391
Re: Fleet 80 wing struts....
There’s a Fleet Aircraft group on Facebook that’s more about keeping and maintaining them today than it is about their history. Quite a few members own Canucks so I’d start there.
- Sat Jan 09, 2021 6:21 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Furloughed Pilots
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1066
Re: Furloughed Pilots
I’ve been spending a lot more time in the garage/workshop and if I could find a way to make that profitable I’d be unstoppable.
- Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:33 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Getting The First Job Stories
- Replies: 6
- Views: 955
Re: Getting The First Job Stories
I interviewed for my first instructing job with a total whack job. I forget exactly how the interview went but it was unpleasant at best then we hopped in a 152 for the practical portion which I had never heard of any other school doing but whatever, I knew how to fly and how to teach already so it ...
- Fri Jan 01, 2021 7:26 am
- Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
- Topic: COVID vaccination advice for Airline crew
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3476
Re: COVID vaccination advice for Airline crew
I get the optics of it appearing rushed but humans have done some remarkable things when they have had to. As far as I know vaccine testing goes through three several-month-long phases, however those phases don’t really share anything between them. Usually they’re done sequentially to allow time to...
- Wed Dec 30, 2020 7:12 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: What do you wish you had learned before beginning flight training?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 673
Re: What do you wish you had learned before beginning flight training?
Some lessons you learn will seem outdated or more in depth than they need to be (most basic navigation comes to mind - “Why bother when I just put it in my GPS?”) but they are often a critical foundation for success in your entire flying career.
- Fri Dec 25, 2020 9:25 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Who Else Looked Up To C huck Yeager As a Kid?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1276
Re: Who Else Looked Up To C huck Yeager As a Kid?
The takeaway is, don't look at your heroes too closely. You may not like what you find. I never met the man myself but I know a number of people who did. While it’s fun to retell stories of an accomplished person being a jerk it turns out there may be at least as many stories about him being friend...
- Thu Dec 24, 2020 6:15 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: B-17 down in Connecticut
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3416
Re: B-17 down in Connecticut
Hey mods - can ya throw a date on the title of these year-old accident threads?
- Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:07 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Anti-Gravity
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1777
- Fri Dec 11, 2020 7:46 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: More Air Canada cuts.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3154
Re: More Air Canada cuts.
I really hope you were being sarcastic. You can normally chalk it up to me being even dumber than I look but this time around I was being facetious. If there’s no business case for it of course they should suspend service, they are after all a money making organization. Plus if there were to be sub...
- Wed Dec 09, 2020 8:06 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: More Air Canada cuts.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3154
Re: More Air Canada cuts.
Air service to the east coast is rapidly dropping, planes are cheap, there is plenty of qualified laid off staff out there. Why not take advantage of the situation and start your own airline to monopolize this perceived demand?
- Sun Nov 22, 2020 7:06 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Advice for new pilots.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 979
Re: Advice for new pilots.
Choose the one that you like.
- Mon Nov 16, 2020 8:34 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Cessna Windshield Broke
- Replies: 10
- Views: 672
Re: Cessna Windshield Broke
The report is all fine and good, but... how windy was it in there?
- Fri Nov 06, 2020 7:34 am
- Forum: Employment Forum
- Topic: Ramp to Pilot Position Waiting Times
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4278
- Mon Nov 02, 2020 6:41 am
- Forum: Around the Camp Fire
- Topic: "So, you want a rectal exam, eh?"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1031
Re: "So, you want a rectal exam, eh?"
I always thought the necessity of giving that exam was like a cruel joke on all the kids who went to med school with dreams of an easy life after grad and seeing eighteen holes a day...
- Mon Nov 02, 2020 6:40 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Another Navajo Landing on a Road
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1467
Re: Another Navajo Landing on a Road
Cranial-rectal inversion notwithstanding, sounds like they did a pretty good job of setting it down if it could be fuelled, run up, and flown home after.
- Thu Oct 08, 2020 11:33 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Plane takes off with concrete tie down attached in Kelowna.
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3120
Re: Plane takes off with concrete tie down attached in Kelowna.
So far the evidence shows otherwise.
- Wed Oct 07, 2020 11:41 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Electric powered Dash 8 is coming
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2880
Re: Electric powered Dash 8 is coming
A decade ago it was blimps. Colour me skeptical.
- Fri Oct 02, 2020 4:50 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: VIDEO : Student Pilot Crashes the Cessna on touchdown (Nov 2019)
- Replies: 65
- Views: 4673
Re: VIDEO : Student Pilot Crashes the Cessna on touchdown (Nov 2019)
Technically all crashes are on touchdown.
- Tue Sep 29, 2020 7:18 pm
- Forum: Employment Forum
- Topic: Information about Skycare
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3091
Re: Information about Skycare
They seem to fly a lot and take trips I turn down. Make of that what you will.