This is common practice among Canadian Regionals. For years they have always tried to draw no more than 1-2 people from a certain 703/704 per class, very understandable. It's the same concept as running a sustainable fishery. "Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs." The regionals don't wan...

Of all the silly correlations to make, this one takes the cake.

I knew a guy who had a heart attack a few hours after he got laid... think we all should be celibate because of that?

Really....

I've used SPOT in the past with good results, but if you are travelling in the high arctic, do some research first to find out what the coverage of the SPOT tracker is. The only place I ever lost coverage was flying between Nome Alaska and Anadyr Russia. They have no coverage over the Bering sea in ...

There is an interesting article on the website "Simple Flying" about the overhang of used Dash 8 400 aircraft on the market:

https://simpleflying.com/flybe-collapse ... perations/

The big challenge will be competition from used Dash 8 400 aircraft that are up for sale. Almost exactly one year ago, FlyBe in the UK folded up, and at the time they shut down, they had 54 (fifty-four) Dash 8 400 aircraft in their fleet, all of them relatively young aircraft. That big group of curr...

Jerz: If you are going to Nome, make sure you have firm hotel reservations. There's only one decent hotel in that town (The Aurora Inn), and it has a habit of filling up frequently. I got stuck in Nome once (had to divert there on a flight from Yukon to Anadyr), the Iditarod dog race was on that wee...

If you are planning to proceed south from UHPP, pay attention to the upper winds enroute. I departed UHPP once in a Twin Otter, heading south, encountered 90 knot upper winds on the nose at FL 100, wound up turning around and going back. If I recall correctly, I was airborne for about an hour before...

Depends on how much he had to drink the night before...

Hi J31: Wow, very interesting. I had never seen that before, because I only worked on the Series 300 and 400 aircraft manuals. The information you cited made reference to a "Model 1", which is actually the "Series 1" - that consisted of the first 5 or 6 aircraft made. When I retired in 2013, only 1 ...

...there is one instance of [Twin Otter] reduced T/O weight and I believe that's structural at colder than -40 due to landing gear. Maybe that's changed as well. I have not read or heard of such a restriction before, nor am I aware of technical bulletins or operator advisories about such a landing ...

I think if you re-read my statement, it is correct....reduced VMCa with autofeather. That being said, you explanation of why there is a difference is interesting as I always wondered why VMCa would somehow change. Hi Pelmet: Attached below is an image of the limitations section of the supplement to...

Going from memory, I believe that autofeather reduced the VMCa from 68 to 64 knots. Maybe somebody can confirm. It would be interesting to know if this is the same on the -400 series. Hi Pelmet: Your memory is pretty good, although you have the numbers reversed. The AFM supplement that addresses op...

If you're unable to maintain directional control, it's probably an even worse idea to go flying... Hello Digits: I didn't state that pilots cannot maintain directional control - in almost all cases, once a pilot becomes proficient at handling engine failures during the takeoff phase of flight (max ...

https://news.usni.org/2020/06/12/skydiving-plane-rolls-into-parked-mv-22b-osprey-at-san-diego-airfield-damaging-both This accident reminds me of an event I had many years ago up in Tanquary Fiord(nice place). We overnighted in the Twin Otter. A lot of captains would pull the CB for the hydraulic pu...

Let's start with an example of a navajo. Accelerate stop somewhere around 3000 ft, single engine stake off distance probably around the same. This airplane is now taking off from a 10000 ft runway, with a V1 calculated for a 3000 ft runway. You have 7000 ft of extra runway that is not taken into ac...

I thought the 2Otter had a reduced T/O weight for autofeather inop... No, that's not the case. If I recall correctly, there is a slight increase in Vr - which results in a longer accelerate-stop distance - if the autofeather system on a Series 300 or Series 400 Twin Otter is inoperative. There is n...

Hello YJL: Welcome to the AvCanada forum community. I concur with wingg's answers, above. The great difficulty in providing an answer to question 4 (how many years before things get back to normal) arises from the fact that pilot hiring has historically been a cyclical phenomenon - and that history ...

DJH: I think that the first thing you need to do is find out what the actual payload of a 185 or 206 on amphibious floats is, then determine how much fuel you need to load to get from your home location to your cottage in Northern Ontario - keeping in mind that you don't have refuelling facilities a...

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The Cessna SkyCourier offers significant advantages over the Twin Otter for operators who don't need the short-field take-off runs of the Twin Otter. The main advantages of the SkyCourier vs. the Twin Otter are cruise speed, payload, and range. The cargo door on the SkyCourier is also much larger th...