COLD LAKE -- Cold Lake firefighters in full gear took part in Sunday's 4 Wing (CFB Cold Lake) 5K walk/run to honour William Hilts, the pilot who died battling an area wildfire. Hilts was fighting fires in an Air Tractor AT-802 "Fire Boss" amphibious water bomber for Conair Aerial Firefighting, under...

3. You can step taxi a Goose at 90 knots on the water without overheating the engines. I did 120 nautical miles in a snow storm once ...... it took 2 hours to drain the hull in Ocean Falls. Why would you step taxi for 120 miles? Seems a bit crazy to be step taxiing at 90 knots in a blinding snow st...

With regards to the Overtime question, the entire Aviation Industry is governed by the employment standards and labour code of Canada. In this legislation it is dicted that an employee who works over 8 hours a day or 40 hours per week be compensated for their time at 1.5 times of regular pay. There...

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Yes they will. I submitted mine years ago and while it was taking weeks for Transport to approve friends who had submitted a hand written one, it only took them 3 days to go through mine.

What is the name of the jumpseat coordinator at Jazz? If anyone knows, could you PM me their name and email address.

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Also, are these crashes not the first for Pasco they just occurred close together? No they are not. I can think of at least two others, one was a Goose, and the other was a Twin Otter. No one died in the Goose, but the Twin Otter had 3 fatalities. The Goose was pilot error; the Twin Otter was maint...

Cat Driver wrote:

Ask about Res Bay, Grise Fiord (which has generally accepted wind limits as well), and Mary River

Ahhh, Res Bay, I landed a DC3 there one night with a 50 knot 90 degree X/wind in zero zero blowing snow

Cat Driver wrote:

The hardest thing about flying is knowing when to say no.

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