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by complexintentions
Thu Nov 16, 2023 12:44 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: That was a close one...
Replies: 69
Views: 15183

Re: That was a close one...

8895 wrote: Thu Nov 16, 2023 8:57 am The “NHL of airlines” ladies and gentleman :rolleyes:
Ahhh don't feel bad.

Maybe you'll let you interview again one day. Not everyone gets into the NHL either.
by complexintentions
Tue Nov 29, 2022 2:22 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Personal Callsigns
Replies: 82
Views: 9062

Re: Personal Callsigns

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by complexintentions
Wed Nov 16, 2022 6:15 am
Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
Topic: Cabin Crew Take Iberia To Court Over Huge Luggage Bins On Airbus A350
Replies: 3
Views: 1182

Re: Cabin Crew Take Iberia To Court Over Huge Luggage Bins On Airbus A350

Ah yes.

Canada.

That bastion of low taxes and sensible government.

Oh did I mention the awesome weather and cheap housing?

Yes, we are so fortunate not to live in the hellhole of...Europe. Or 'Murrica!

I love ME!

Signed, every Canadian stereotype ever.

:mrgreen:
by complexintentions
Mon Aug 01, 2022 4:14 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Passport stamp from Iraq? Would it cause an issue?
Replies: 16
Views: 2119

Re: Passport stamp from Iraq? Would it cause an issue?

Israel stopped rubber-stamping visitors' passports many many years ago. Now it has a paper ticket system, and keeps electronic records of your visitor's visa. "Many many?" Actually less than 10 years ago, 2014 rings a bell. Some of us have been expats a bit longer than that. :lol: But irrelevant to...
by complexintentions
Fri Jul 29, 2022 9:29 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Passport stamp from Iraq? Would it cause an issue?
Replies: 16
Views: 2119

Re: Passport stamp from Iraq? Would it cause an issue?

Could try applying for a 2nd valid passport. I did that successfully in the past for a visa application, and it is not entirely unheard of for similar reasons as this. Used to be quite common for Westerners living in the Middle East to hold two concurrently so they could travel to Israel without fac...
by complexintentions
Tue Jul 26, 2022 2:00 pm
Forum: Covid
Topic: Europe explains the reason for airport chaos
Replies: 60
Views: 5985

Re: Europe explains the reason for airport chaos

We are living in the Age of Anti-Enlightenment. A race to return to medieval superstition, huddled around smartphones instead of campfires, fearful and latching onto every bizarre theory that helps to explain an increasingly complicated world to tiny lizard brains. It is not the proudest moment in h...
by complexintentions
Thu Jul 14, 2022 6:49 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Airport traffic mini rant
Replies: 47
Views: 3233

Re: Airport traffic mini rant

I’m afraid that Entitled Small Businessman is always going to be trumped by Entitled Captain. All you’re doing is frustrating yourself.

There are a-holes in all professions, being one yourself won’t cure all the others.
by complexintentions
Thu Jun 16, 2022 9:22 pm
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: Missing Suitcase Air Canada
Replies: 14
Views: 4186

Re: Missing Suitcase Air Canada

I have Airtags, they're great but have their limitations, as pointed out they may show where your bag is, but that doesn't necessarily mean you can do anything about it. My last couple transits across the pond I knew my bag had been left behind before we took off. Saved some time at destination, ins...
by complexintentions
Sat Apr 09, 2022 1:01 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Logging Instrument time
Replies: 110
Views: 13722

Re: Logging Instrument time

As mentioned above you can log it. It's instrument time, not IFR time. My Canadian logbook has "actual, hood, sim" columns under instrument time. My previous UK logbook just had instrument time. Just to clarify; the sim is not simulated, it's simulator ground time. As I stated previously, UK and ma...
by complexintentions
Mon Mar 21, 2022 2:45 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: The wrong's with the industry
Replies: 44
Views: 6186

Re: The wrong's with the industry

This is completely true. It is also true that the industry is vastly more than just "Canada".

Also, once reaching certain thresholds of experience, flying skills are most certainly transferable.

If one has to be convinced that this is the career for you - it isn't.
by complexintentions
Mon Feb 28, 2022 4:53 am
Forum: Covid
Topic: Truckers convoy
Replies: 1591
Views: 90299

Re: Truckers convoy

The same people calling the comparison of Canada to totalitarian regimes ridiculous, were the same people clutching their pearls breathlessly referring to the trucker protest as an "invasion", "occupation", and similar. If one is going to call out nonsense it needs to be exposed equally. Lots of dra...
by complexintentions
Sun Jan 30, 2022 12:13 pm
Forum: Covid
Topic: ARE WE LOSING THE RIGHT TO PROTEST?
Replies: 57
Views: 6806

Re: ARE WE LOSING THE RIGHT TO PROTEST?

rookiepilot wrote: Sat Jan 29, 2022 6:32 pm Has the insurrection Trudeau is in his bunker waiting for, and promised by Singh will happen, started?

Canada is the laughing stock of the world. Winston Churchill our leaders are not.
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by complexintentions
Sat Jan 08, 2022 4:31 pm
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: Long Landing Thread
Replies: 36
Views: 11771

Re: Long Landing Thread

It's very simple - land in the Touchdown Zone or Go- around. No ambiguity. Yep. And it's not because of a "dumbing down" or because the Chief Pilot is a big meanie or some other such nonsense alluded to. It's simply due to the fact landing performance data is predicated on landing in the touchdown ...
by complexintentions
Fri Jan 07, 2022 1:46 pm
Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
Topic: Mobile phone plans - (for Canadian pilots layovers in US)
Replies: 14
Views: 3429

Re: Mobile phone plans - (for Canadian pilots layovers in US)

Pity we can't be like Europe on this continent IMO.Cheap and great coverage over their in my experience. You are correct, Europe is far far better than Canada (not just in mobile, sorry, "cellphone" costs...I digress! :mrgreen: ) But T-Mobile does have plans that have unlimited calling, texting, da...
by complexintentions
Thu Oct 07, 2021 7:26 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Adding a Type Rating from a foreign Licence to a TC ATPL
Replies: 13
Views: 2164

Re: Adding a Type Rating from a foreign Licence to a TC ATPL

I've added foreign non-FAA type ratings to my TC license. But I was actively flying at the time. Presented foreign license with said type rating, record of latest check (what they call PPC in Canada but not anywhere else) and logbook evidence of time on type. $30 later and the rating was on my Canad...
by complexintentions
Tue Oct 05, 2021 3:12 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Pilot Shortage
Replies: 62
Views: 15273

Re: Pilot Shortage

Yeah my financial planner is moving my investments to lower risk on Monday. Curious how that is defined. hahah Yeah I had the same thought. Most would take that to mean selling equities and going to cash, but that's FAR riskier in an inflationary environment. Market timing is for suckers. I've been...
by complexintentions
Thu Sep 23, 2021 7:15 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Aviation and the 2021 Election
Replies: 86
Views: 9529

Re: Aviation and the 2021 Election

Canada's been a socialist haven for ages. They're just stopped pretending anything else anymore. Must suck a bit a bit to be Jagmeet when the Libs out-Commie the NDP hahah! And now Justin and Jag are in bed again for another 2-4 years. Think the money taps were open before now? You haven't seen any...
by complexintentions
Thu Sep 23, 2021 3:31 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Aviation and the 2021 Election
Replies: 86
Views: 9529

Re: Aviation and the 2021 Election

Canada's been a socialist haven for ages. They're just stopped pretending anything else anymore. Must suck a bit a bit to be Jagmeet when the Libs out-Commie the NDP hahah! And now Justin and Jag are in bed again for another 2-4 years. Think the money taps were open before now? You haven't seen anyt...
by complexintentions
Sat Sep 18, 2021 3:01 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Auto Thrust or Auto Throttle?
Replies: 9
Views: 2294

Re: Auto Thrust or Auto Throttle?

Boeing calls the associated automated system Auto Throttle and they're definitely jets. But the actual levers are referred to as Thrust Levers. Go figure.

Auto Thrust is maybe an Airbus term? Dunno.

But it's all semantics really.



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by complexintentions
Sat Sep 11, 2021 3:55 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Pilot Shortage
Replies: 62
Views: 15273

Re: Pilot Shortage

I’m not in the industry, but I agree. 2022 = Boom. Get ready for epic gas prices though, too. Yep. Restrict production and transportation of fossil fuels when there's no viable replacement for them, then increase demand exponentially. Don't exactly have to have a doctorate in Economics to know what...

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