If you got your pass then give me a ping when you get there and I'll buy you a beer or three!

Ok, I've read enough of the whinefest here, and I'm going to defend COPA. You guys are really clueless about how these predators operate. God Bless you for naivety. The reason -- yes I'm certainly presuming -- that COPA is singling out pilots, is not what might happen at an event. It's the chance o...

Given the number of runways that PPLs do - and will - use that don't have slope guidance I believe its better training to learn to land entirely visually, and ignore the PAPI or VASI, if there should be one. Absolutely this!! The only value for PAPIs is as I said before to be a last chance warning ...

I don't understand what a PAPI is for if you don't use it. Several months ago when doing night training my instructor was very specific fly the PAPI correctly. It's very odd at 500 agl to drop to 40° and "push" the thing to the runway I'd strongly recommend you go back to your instructor and ask wh...

Here's a link to a post with a number of activities in the U.S. that you may want to build into any summer travel plans you have. 50th Anniversary No sense clicking the link if you happen to be one of the people who believes it never really happened. :wink: But even then you could still go to one in...

Try passing on some info. Actually the below thread was awesome for that. Whole bunch of different pilots passing on their personal scary flights or errors in judgement. It's interesting not everyone chooses to share. I wonder why? http://www.avcanada.ca/forums2/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=132382 Ridicule...

Here's a question - if you were designing the world's first airplane with today's infrastructure of predominantly paved runways so that prop clearance and roughness of the operating surface wan't a primary concern, would you build in dynamic instability that would manifest itself almost solely in t...

I believe that a good instructor is a good instructor regardless of what machine they are teaching on I cannot share that opinion. An instructor who is competent on one/some types, could be an ineffective instructor on other types! Would a good instructor in a 152/172/182 also be a good person to t...

Here's a question - if you were designing the world's first airplane with today's infrastructure of predominantly paved runways so that prop clearance and roughness of the operating surface wan't a primary concern, would you build in dynamic instability that would manifest itself almost solely in th...

Anyone that misses PDW should starting pulling off their fingernails, one each day for 10 days. On the 11th day you'll miss not having another one to pull off. That'll get you over it.

Very sad.

I heard it was a PA12 though, not that it really matters.

It is unknown how poor the acceleration was. If it was obvious, one would think there would be a quick RTO. Perhaps it was just a general suspicion but not confirmed. It can be a difficult thing to analyze. I completely agree and that's why I said I normally don't like to second guess after the fac...

Personally I'm not a real fan of parking brakes for anything but parking. They aren't called run-up brakes after all. :wink: I really don't like second guessing after accidents/incidents but can't help myself this time. The thing that gets me is that the pilots apparently admitted noticing that the ...

Wow, this an old resurrect, but WTH.....

I like the way you want people to think that you have 1500 hours and yet this is the 1st time you've used the internet. One, or both, of those things is likely false. But maybe I'm just grumpy because my Mom made me stay in my basement room because I didn't get the lawn mowed. :evil: But really, I s...

Much of this sounds a bit like having checklists to check the checklists. :rolleyes: If there really are items you need to have an internal checklist to cover (not things you do just for your own peace of mind) then shouldn't you be reporting it to the company you work for or the people who own the ...

The horrors, just this alone must make it unbearable......

"tout trafic conflictuel s'il vous plaît aviser"!!!

Maybe no common frequency is their solution to getting rid of the exasperating annoyance of ACTPLA! Seriously though, they have way more aircraft flying to way more airports and without a common enroute frequency there's not carnage in the skies. Is it possible that a congested common frequency isn'...

Idle Sunday morning curiosity, but I wonder how many pilot's lives/careers have been significantly damaged due to a bond and how many companies have been significantly impacted by shortages due to pilot's bailing very soon after starting? Not theoretically but actually. And actually damaged, not jus...

The reverse of this is...I don't understand why partial panel isn't tested on the IFR flight test. Because they save it for the IPC (from the new version of AC 4004-004 issue 3 effective 2019-02-15) (4) During the IPC, the candidate will be assessed on the following: (a) Unusual attitude recovery: ...

Pissed off the instructor/owner, who couldn't soak me for more on the "flight simulator" POS the flight school had at 50bucks an hour or something, because I had all the lessons worked out already... saved me money for sure. I'm sure you were a joy to teach. Not having you around as long very likel...

That linked article is more a "rah,rah" booster article than well researched business info, IMHO. Below is a Stats Can sourced list of air traffic. Edmonton International isn't do any better than any other airport in Canada, at least since 2010. And City Centre closed in 2013 with no significant eff...

Canada's all about diversity....... https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2019/january/30/nav-canada-seeks-ads-b-antenna-diversity?utm_source=epilot&utm_medium=email&utm_content=adv&utm_campaign=190131epilot ....and for those who don't like clicking links, here's the text. NAV CANADA SEEKS AD...

And just in case I'm not the only one here that doesn't (now didn't) know what a DAR is ......https://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/civilaviation/ ... 01-917.htm

Talked to the owner of a flight school today with 9 C172's about tailstrikes. He says that they get them on a very regular basis in terms of a scrape of some sort on the tiedown ring. That being said, he did also stated that structural damage was rare, although they change the tiedown ring regularl...