At 8,000 feet ASL how close to shore would you want to fly a 182?

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.

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.

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 ...

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...

Some lessons you learn will seem outdated or more in depth than they need to be (most basic navigation comes to mind - “Why bother when I just put it in my GPS?”)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.

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...

Hey mods - can ya throw a date on the title of these year-old accident threads?

redlaser wrote: ↑Mon Dec 14, 2020 3:53 pm The problem that the guys from Kawartha did not take into consideration is that an aircraft built of Cavorite the anti-Gravity material will float away once you exit the airplane,

Duh:

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...

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?

Choose the one that you like.

The report is all fine and good, but... how windy was it in there?

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...

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.

tractor driver wrote: ↑Thu Oct 08, 2020 9:20 am I’d imagine disaster is far more likely.

So far the evidence shows otherwise.

A decade ago it was blimps. Colour me skeptical.

challenger_nami wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 4:13 pm Student Pilot Crashes the Cessna on touchdown.

Technically all crashes are on touchdown.

They seem to fly a lot and take trips I turn down. Make of that what you will.