In what sort of situation would you be starting any floatplane while tied to the dock, other than to warm up a piston? Is this how they do it at Harbour Air or other busy docks? I’ve spent my whole career flying floatplanes both piston and turbine and have never once started up while tied to a dock...

In what sort of situation would you be starting any floatplane while tied to the dock, other than to warm up a piston? Is this how they do it at Harbour Air or other busy docks? I’ve spent my whole career flying floatplanes both piston and turbine and have never once started up while tied to a dock,...

Cirro.

The same goes for all types of marginal weather, not just crosswinds. Flight schools don’t want the liability so it falls to the first employer to train their new hire on things they should already be competent at.

Great info, thanks everyone for the replies.

C-FPHS. What do they use it for - Hauling freight? Support? Moving execs? Seems like a lot of plane for any of those missions and there would be many far more economical options. Where do they go with it? I’m genuinely curious. The tracking is blocked at least on FlightAware. I saw it on the ramp ye...

I wonder where those left hand prop blades ended up.

I read that they hit a bird and declared mayday. It’s hard to imagine how a bird strike could lead to this outcome but I don’t fly Boeings.

Right hand prop looks feathered.

PilotDAR wrote: ↑Fri Jun 14, 2024 2:47 pm

Drunk boat captain or not

The boat captain continues to have a responsibility to maintain watch, and avoid a possible collision, whether he is the stand on vessel or not....

All that is true of the Beaver pilot as well.

That was not my experience there at all.

The talent pool for float pilots is shrinking every year. In my opinion float pilots are an endangered species on their way to extinction. Operators that are willing to open their check books and pay decent money will be able to find pilots. Cheap/stingy operators won't be able to find pilots and m...

For years and years I never got charged the $55 for the medical. But then every few years a final notice or equivalent would appear in the mail demanding several hundred bucks in back fees or they would send it to collection agency. I always wondered why they didn’t have my address for routine bills...

An amphib gets you twice the maintenance and half the load vs the same plane on straight floats. If you are trying to make money, straight floats is the way to go. Amphibs are for private guys or government.

I never understood the hate for polarized glasses. It's all I use and I love them. Colours are richer and more saturated with increased contrast, meaning everything looks better. There aren't too many screens in the planes I fly but I can see them all clearly. And if you are flying floats it helps y...

Looking to see if anyone has a Husky, Cessna, or even Beaver on floats or amphibs they would be willing to rent out block time on. Looking in the Sudbury/Parry Sound area. Could also be interested in a partnership opportunity for same if anyone knows of one available. Thanks!

I use the Lightspeed Zulu in a -2 and 3T, works great! Better passive noise cancelling than Bose but I still always keep a spare set of batteries in my bag.

I didn’t see this posted anywhere yet. This sounds like it could be one of the Telus machines? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-island-tahsis-inlet-100-plane-crash-transportation-safety-board-1.6883650 Two people are dead and two injured after a plane crashed on Vancouver Is...

https://www.snnewswatch.com/local-news/rescue-crews-searching-for-missing-plane-6629206 Search efforts are continuing for a second day for a plane that has been reported overdue. Joint Rescue Coordination Centre Trenton tweeted that a search is ongoing for a Cessna 208 plane that had been travelling...

There it is, I knew I had seen the 44% number somewhere. https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/almost-half-of-canadians-sympathetic-to-concerns-and-frustrations-of-ottawa-trucker-protest Leger surveyed 1,546 people between Feb. 4 and Feb. 6 and found that, while 62 per cent of all respondents stro...

The 44% who say they support truckers, which is more than enough to win an election. I don’t know where you got the 44% number but let’s go with it. Now subtract 44 from 100. What result do you get? Is that number larger than 44? No? There you go. There it is, I knew I had seen the 44% number somew...

The 44% who say they support truckers, which is more than enough to win an election. I don’t know where you got the 44% number but let’s go with it. Now subtract 44 from 100. What result do you get? Is that number larger than 44? No? There you go. I was wrong. It's actually 54% as per this Angus Re...

Unfortunately (for him), we are united against him. We are? Who is this we? The tens if not hundreds of thousands of people from across the country who lined the roads and overpasses in sub freezing temperatures in January to cheer the convoy on. The folks who raised over $10 million in the space o...

Trudeau has dug himself quite a hole, and he just keeps digging. It will be interesting to see how he gets himself out of this. In doing so he has united the country is a way not imaginable even a month ago. Unfortunately (for him), we are united against him. JT is usually a savvy politician but he ...

Like this? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/dozens-windsor-essex-hospital-staff-1.6185369 172 Windsor, Ont., hospital staff suspended without pay for not getting COVID-19 shots Suspended workers have until early October to get 1st first shots or face termination About 172 staff members at Wind...