Gee, that $100k degree only AC requires, doesn't seem to be much use then, no? Go ahead and show us all your mental math for creating a cold wx corrected 3.5 degree slope, and then tell us all how you'd break SOP and adjust the FPA to chase this made up slope. I'm not trying to be insulting, but se...

They could have used mental math, but again, I don't think most pilot are trained for this. "Trained?" Like, a course? In how to do simple arithmetic? Wowsa. I'm sure there's an app for that? :lol: When I read a post like cliffjumper's, it's pretty much the point in a thread where I just shrug mild...

I don't feel like the fact that they didn't have this available was 'damning' to the crew. Or, are you suggesting that they should have pulled out the calculators and created a Alt/Dis crosscheck chart from scratch, using 3.5 degrees? They absolutely did have it available, the Jepp plate - as Eric ...

I think you just supported my point. The crew planned 3.5, the chart was 3.08. Once 3.5 was planned, they had no easy way to cross-check on the way down, because the altitudes vs distances were totally different from those published on the chart. Again, if you compare the alt vs dis on figure 1, to...

The best article I have read recently about how corporatism did more to take Boeing to the bad place they are now, far more than than any single design decision on any single aircraft. A warning for all companies really. How Boeing Lost It's Bearings - The Atlantic The difference between doing MCAS ...

The "tiger" label is fitting. You put a tiger of an aircraft in the hands of a culture of pilots trained to be sheep, what you would expect to happen, happened. The era of training pilots to tame tigers is long gone, so the solution is to neuter the tiger. Personally I will always keep my whip ready...

Yes, but Eric you've actually lived and worked extensively in S. Asia, so of course you have to hear criticism from folks who've never done the same...

New Boeing MCAS training curriculum:

- If undesirable trim movement is encountered, disconnect trim system.

* Some similarities to previous runaway trim training may occur *

I too have to wonder how the military only "realized" this could be an issue two months before the deadline to implement it. The satellites for space-based ADS-B were being launched in 2017 and it's a no-brainer that it was coming, particularly for trans-oceanic flights. More likely just the excuse...

Thanks gents for the suggestions. @ahramin, I did email the licensing officer directly to her TC email, and have spoken to her several times on her direct line. It's not so much the inability to contact them, but being told more than once I'll be called back or contacted and then...nothing. And yes,...

I too have to wonder how the military only "realized" this could be an issue two months before the deadline to implement it. The satellites for space-based ADS-B were being launched in 2017 and it's a no-brainer that it was coming, particularly for trans-oceanic flights. More likely just the excuse ...

Just a follow-up on my attempt to add the B787 rating to my Canadian license. I originally applied with a huge packet of substantiating documents on August 1 when I was home in Canada. At the time I did a TC medical ($125), ECG ($55), paid the rating fee ($30) and subsequently the medical licensing ...

Your last point is how any climate denier justifies throwing away the opinions of the environmentalists... "So what's your solution?" and when they don't have one, you dismiss their position. The problem is, and this is the same problem with Greta, that they aren't the experts. The environmentalist...

Nah. I'm hoping the 12 year prediction is correct and doing my best to burn my share of fossil fuels in every way imaginable. "Save the planet"? Please. The planet will survive. Us as a species? Maybe, maybe not. Don't really care, which is my default position for all things I have no control over. ...

I admit I'm at a loss as to how recording flight details by hand makes them more true than entering them on a computer and then printing them, but i guess that's why I don't work for the government... I always thought that if a document accurately recorded the particulars required in the CAR's (poin...

Yeah think I'll go that route, just swear an affidavit. Don't even really need the rating as I'll never fly on it in Canada, which is just as well as it's taken a few months already and still not done. Just wanted to add it for posterity and it's grown into an epic project: had to do a medical, ECG,...

This question is for anyone who's used a printout of their electronically logged hours when applying for a license or rating, but particularly if that rating was obtained outside of Canada. I went through the process a few years back and it was painless: fill in the application, submit the supportin...

I always just select business travel. I am there on business so it's correct. Nope. Not correct. Just usually accepted as the closest option available at the kiosk. Airline crew may be there "on business" but not as defined for a B1 business visitor visa. Examples of what a B1 visa is intended for ...

The Chinese strive to maintain face at all costs. They are truly screwed with HK: if they don't intervene forcefully they will lose face at home. If they pull another Tiananmen Square, they will massively lose face internationally and they know it. IMO the only reason the tanks haven't rolled yet is...

Wow! Are you my new internet bully? If you can't maintain a civilized discussion, you can always resort to a personal attack. But then, most people will just avoid you - which is what I will be doing. Likely why the discussion ended. Nice job shutting down this thread. Slow clap... Yep, the thread ...

My file is sealed. It was 35 years ago. If some authority anywhere in the world asks me if I was ever charged, the answer is no. They will never find out. Is it a lie or is it just semantics? Dont care, the answer is no. Well, no, despite your weak self-justification it's not "semantics" it's still...

I was on track for a EU passport pre-Brexit, and the other solution marry my European seems a bit overkill...

Think I'd still rather bumble along with the Canadian passport than have to do an interview just to get a visa for the good old US of A.

The question is: "Have you ever been convicted of an offence for which has pardon has not been granted?" And your answer is no. And for that matter, if it's asked any other way the answer is still no. And arrests mean nothing. No. The wording is key. The question you quote is a Canadian legal requi...

I left the industry 10 years ago and maybe thats the only reason I can afford my own home today. We'll see how it goes when I get back in. But yea, it's not just aviation, wages are stagnant almost everywhere. I left Canada over 10 years ago and I can easily afford my own home. Just don't want one ...

Source is Wikipedia so take it for what it's worth, but the B767 has a glide ratio of about 12:1. The B787 has an estimated glide ratio of approximately 21:1. The wing is bonkers. Burns no fuel in cruise but the flipside is it's a PITA on descent and approach at times. A fun scenario in the sim is t...