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by KT111
Fri Aug 17, 2012 5:31 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Allowing a Passenger to Take the Controls
Replies: 66
Views: 6669

Re: Allowing a Passenger to Take the Controls

Okay show of hands from those who on their first flight ever were able to take the controls in straight and level flight and give em a bit of a wiggle. Usually in a 172 or 152, cub, or whatever. Seriously. Did you EVER think there was something wrong with that or that it was dangerous when the pilot...
by KT111
Fri Jul 27, 2012 5:33 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: calm air amo
Replies: 23
Views: 3873

Re: calm air amo

Wasnt Calm Air, but after a particularly smokey startup on a -30 day in Frobisher I asked the crew of the FA Hawker if they needed me to call the fire-department.
by KT111
Fri Jul 20, 2012 7:27 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Gotta watch those fabric turboprops
Replies: 14
Views: 2263

Re: Gotta watch those fabric turboprops

Im glad this one turned out ok. Early in my career I was offered a right seat in the D228 with Ministic Airlines out of YWG. I turned it down because I couldnt get past the fabric wing/tail design of this aircraft. I was just talking to Summit`s Ops Mgr 6 weeks ago about this exact senario and if t...
by KT111
Sat Jun 09, 2012 8:57 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Smoke on the wing when a fighter jet do a thight turn
Replies: 11
Views: 3969

Re: Smoke on the wing when a fighter jet do a thight turn

Great thread, would read again. Seen a DHC5 do that on a humid day in CYFB during take off, the props had mad vapour trails coming off them.
by KT111
Sat Jun 02, 2012 3:16 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Visited the TSB today ...
Replies: 3
Views: 1536

Re: Visited the TSB today ...

CSI: TSB anyone?
by KT111
Fri May 11, 2012 4:09 am
Forum: Helicopter Forum
Topic: Your favorite manufactory?
Replies: 2
Views: 4002

Re: Your favorite manufactory?

My all time favorite is the Bell 212S. What a bird.

My second has to be the BSTP 214 because "That is the sound of freedom" my friends.
by KT111
Mon Feb 13, 2012 8:34 pm
Forum: Helicopter Forum
Topic: Bell 525 Relentless
Replies: 5
Views: 7674

Re: Bell 525 Relentless

I love seeing what technology brings to the game. The features of the arc horizon flight deck "seem" pretty intuitive, and to me feel like they belong on a new piece of kit.

Any full time sling wing guys think there'd be many problems adjusting to the cyclic control moved to the right side?
by KT111
Sat Jul 16, 2011 9:06 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Canada looking at building military bases in Arctic
Replies: 45
Views: 5273

Re: Canada looking at building military bases in Arctic

I can agree with the hub strategy. Only speaking for Iqaluit, C-130's and C-17s fly in supplies, troops, and perform search and rescue ops (C-130's) on a semi-routine basis. Why not use the larger and existing facilities such as Iqaluit, Rankin, Yellowknife (and potentially Inuvik) to support movem...
by KT111
Sat Jul 16, 2011 8:22 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Canada looking at building military bases in Arctic
Replies: 45
Views: 5273

Re: Canada looking at building military bases in Arctic

I can agree with the hub strategy. Only speaking for Iqaluit, C-130's and C-17s fly in supplies, troops, and perform search and rescue ops (C-130's) on a semi-routine basis. Why not use the larger and existing facilities such as Iqaluit, Rankin, Yellowknife (and potentially Inuvik) to support moveme...
by KT111
Tue Jul 12, 2011 11:03 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Can anyone think of an uglier flying machine than the R44?
Replies: 60
Views: 10209

Re: Can anyone think of an uglier flying machine than the R4

PZ04 Wilga is a stupid looking plane, IMO and from what I have witnessed, incredibly awkward to fly (and land):

Image
by KT111
Wed May 25, 2011 3:26 am
Forum: Helicopter Forum
Topic: S61 keeps on going
Replies: 15
Views: 5256

Re: S61 keeps on going

I miss CFIBN up here in CYFB, it was good to me, but the B214 they replaced it with just sounds so damned sweet that it's hard to be mad about it at all.
by KT111
Fri May 20, 2011 10:17 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: 126.7 FSS
Replies: 14
Views: 6696

Re: 126.7 FSS

According to the RCO redesign chart, 126.7 is still available in most of Ontario, however I can state that I often have problems raising them. I was just north of Wiarton last week and tried for a few minutes on 126.7. Quick check of the CFS showed the 123.375 frequency, which worked, however not a...
by KT111
Sun May 15, 2011 8:59 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: the coolest thing you saw today
Replies: 42
Views: 6604

Re: the coolest thing you saw today

Embraer Phenom 100
by KT111
Fri May 06, 2011 2:13 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: HELP FIND AVIATION LAWYER DEALING WITH UAV FLIGHTS - CANADA
Replies: 13
Views: 4301

Re: HELP FIND AVIATION LAWYER DEALING WITH UAV FLIGHTS - CAN

IMO it shouldn't be THAT complicated for a person to get the necessary a) Insurance and b) Special Flight Operations Certificate SFOC required to make a commercial UAV flight in Canada. UAVs have a specific definition according to Transport Canada and as such, though preliminary, there are outlines ...
by KT111
Tue Apr 19, 2011 9:55 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Now for our in-flight movie.... brought you by ATC!
Replies: 9
Views: 2202

Re: Now for our in-flight movie.... brought you by ATC!

Cleaner is a good movie.
by KT111
Mon Feb 28, 2011 4:58 am
Forum: ATS Question Forum
Topic: ATC Medical??
Replies: 32
Views: 8334

Re: ATC Medical??

Actually it wasn't asked by the OP - it was a secondary Q - maybe the reading comprehension needs some work? I think "Grimey" summed it up "mickey mouse"??? An employment medical, even if done by a CAME, is still just an employment medical. My Class one also needs a medical - probably more stringen...
by KT111
Wed Feb 23, 2011 1:03 pm
Forum: Bush Flying & Specialty Air Service
Topic: Springhill Farms
Replies: 5
Views: 1710

Re: Springhill Farms

I'd guess that one of the owners is using it to get around because he lives southeast of winnipeg, but it's just a theory.
by KT111
Tue Dec 14, 2010 8:37 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: "C'mon Man......"
Replies: 72
Views: 10725

Re: "C'mon Man......"

at an uncontrolled airport with an FSS:

-A/C calling up pre-startup to ask for wind and traffic information and "put clearance on request". C'mon man!!!! (just report taxi-ing damnit, you'll get your FULL advisory then)
by KT111
Sat Nov 27, 2010 7:46 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Approach plate rant...
Replies: 39
Views: 5729

Re: Approach plate rant...

I always chuckle when someone pronounces the "TIBEG" fix for the ILS DME RWY 35 in CYFB as "Teabag". AFAIK it's pronounced Tie-Beg.
by KT111
Mon Aug 23, 2010 6:05 am
Forum: ATS Question Forum
Topic: NavCanada and GPS
Replies: 13
Views: 4453

Re: NavCanada and GPS

Bets anyone on the year the last standing ILS will be decommissioned in favor/monopoly of a GPS aviation world? Westjet has basically proven through the development of their own RNP approaches that there is operational and safety advantages. I'm inclined to say early-mid 2020. At the rate our techn...
by KT111
Sun Aug 08, 2010 10:29 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: New Transport Minister
Replies: 2
Views: 979

Re: New Transport Minister

. Strahl to the rescue of another department that needs his ... talents. This guy is the biggest puppet I have ever heard of.
by KT111
Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:35 am
Forum: ATS Question Forum
Topic: Military ATC training with NavCanada
Replies: 8
Views: 3262

Re: Military ATC training with NavCanada

DND leases space from Nav Canada. It is the Canadian Forces School of Aerospace Control Operations (CFSACO). I am 99% sure that all training is done by the forces (I'm saying this because I knew a military controller who taught the VFR course and also was a course director). Not that I asked her sp...
by KT111
Wed Jun 30, 2010 1:46 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Bradley Twin Otter Pictures
Replies: 36
Views: 11393

Re: Bradley Twin Otter Pictures

casey wrote:ASS S/N 362 Is now C-FAIY flown by AI
ive seen that plane (AIY) in yfb
by KT111
Sun Jun 27, 2010 9:24 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Approach plates for Inuvik
Replies: 7
Views: 1057

Re: Approach plates for Inuvik

NJ wrote:Descend direct the VOR, report canceling IFR through twelve-five...
sounds similar to yfb
by KT111
Mon Jun 14, 2010 5:18 am
Forum: Bush Flying & Specialty Air Service
Topic: Nicknames?
Replies: 39
Views: 3847

Re: Nicknames?

D228 - "fuckin dornier" (really great when CFUCN was flying in). 'Here comes that FUCN dornier" ATR42 - Hater Twin Otter - "Oh hey Ted" or, "It's that scottish guy again" Joyously coined one morning on a trip out east "Going to Sunny D" (place not an aircraft) A748 Hawker - Oviously the mispronounci...

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