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by Canoehead
Mon Jun 19, 2023 3:07 pm
Forum: Jazz Aviation LP - Air Canada Express
Topic: New hire bids
Replies: 1604
Views: 739679

Re: New hire bids

Fact: Jazz is losing more pilots than we can hire. Fact, Jazz can't find ATPL pilots, and is mostly hiring low time CPL pilots. Fact, our training department is slowly eroding. The above are facts, what you are saying is spin. And all it does is piss off the pilots at Jazz that know we are in deep ...
by Canoehead
Mon Jun 19, 2023 10:40 am
Forum: Jazz Aviation LP - Air Canada Express
Topic: New hire bids
Replies: 1604
Views: 739679

Re: New hire bids

What a load of nonesense! You mean that is all you could find. We are about to lose 40 pilots in the next month, and you are claiming we only wanted to hire 16. Just like Colin saying in the earnings call Jazz has no trouble hiring "qualified" candidates. Apprently that means anyone with a CPL, bec...
by Canoehead
Mon Jun 19, 2023 9:10 am
Forum: Jazz Aviation LP - Air Canada Express
Topic: New hire bids
Replies: 1604
Views: 739679

Re: New hire bids

swervin wrote: Fri Jun 16, 2023 5:33 am Apparently 6 no shows in the last class.
The last class had always been planned to be 16.

One "no show" actually advised in advance that they wouldn't be there - too late to fill the spot for the Monday morning start however.

15 started on June 5th.
by Canoehead
Tue Apr 25, 2023 12:26 pm
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: Mis-set Cruise power
Replies: 20
Views: 3575

Re: Mis-set Cruise power

Yes. When parking the airplane, you put the condition levers to "start feather" before shutting the engines down, as well as when starting the engines. When in flight, the props would self destruct under such high torque loads, so the airplane won't allow the props to actually go into feather, at l...
by Canoehead
Sun May 16, 2021 7:55 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: A bush flying legend has passed
Replies: 17
Views: 3507

Re: A bush flying legend has passed

Sorry for your loss NWONT. I flew in and out of YPL a bunch, spent many hours droning around the area in a turboprop doing medevacs so very likely heard Pete on the radio at some point. Still, not lost on me the fact that guys like Pete were the forerunners and trailblazers to what I loved (love) do...
by Canoehead
Fri Apr 23, 2021 9:08 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Does Anyone Remember the Maple, Ontario Airport ?
Replies: 42
Views: 38311

Re: Does Anyone Remember the Maple, Ontario Airport ?

Someone mentioned King City Airport... The buildings are all gone now. Beamish and the following company no longer seen anywhere.
Just empty land.
by Canoehead
Sat Mar 13, 2021 6:18 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Transport Canada Contact/ Medical
Replies: 15
Views: 1711

Re: Transport Canada Contact/ Medical

You can also try emailing the National Office.

NCRCivAvMedicineInquiries-EnquetesMedecineAeroCivRCN@tc.gc.ca
by Canoehead
Tue Mar 02, 2021 8:22 pm
Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
Topic: Potential Airline Bailout
Replies: 233
Views: 44722

Re: Potential Airline Bailout

He's an effing drama teacher and he can't even act like a professional. I'm curious, what was your first job out of school? Should we all make fun of you because of your first job after finishing school, ofc assuming you did finish... JT did a bachelor of art in literature at McGill, then a bachelo...
by Canoehead
Mon Mar 01, 2021 2:31 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: TSB Investigation - Canadian Approach Minimums
Replies: 46
Views: 8594

Re: TSB Investigation - Canadian Approach Minimums

Thanks BTD. I had forgotten about that one.
by Canoehead
Sun Feb 28, 2021 9:00 pm
Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
Topic: Potential Airline Bailout
Replies: 233
Views: 44722

Re: Potential Airline Bailout

The difference is, regardless of the mistakes or ill-advised decisions that the Pearsons, Mulroneys, Clarks, Chrétiens and Harpers (...even the original Trudeau) made in the past, they at least had the best intentions of the country at heart. They were "Statesmen". Justin Trudeau is not. This guy is...
by Canoehead
Sun Feb 28, 2021 8:37 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: TSB Investigation - Canadian Approach Minimums
Replies: 46
Views: 8594

Re: TSB Investigation - Canadian Approach Minimums

So you will eventually see a few SA CATII approaches pop up across the country. It will get the job done. Until some airplane ends up off the edge because they lost the centerline (no lighting). It's 2021. WTF do we do everything so mickey mouse in Canada? It's embarrassing. Back to reading about o...
by Canoehead
Thu Feb 25, 2021 3:56 pm
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: CYNJ CADORS
Replies: 31
Views: 6171

Re: CYNJ CADORS

It appears there are lots of pilots who don't know the rules? Almost all seem like valid write-ups to me. So what's more likely? That Langley has a massively above-average fleet of idiots and somehow every other airport in the lower mainland has managed to avoid them? Or that there's something else...
by Canoehead
Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:17 pm
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: CYNJ CADORS
Replies: 31
Views: 6171

Re: CYNJ CADORS

It appears there are lots of pilots who don't know the rules? Almost all seem like valid write-ups to me.

It's not hard.
by Canoehead
Mon Feb 22, 2021 5:23 pm
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: Debris falls from 777 during emergency landing.
Replies: 35
Views: 5391

Re: Debris falls from 777 during emergency landing.

geodoc wrote: Mon Feb 22, 2021 3:44 pm More on the fan blade(s) failure:






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Juan does a great job on these.
by Canoehead
Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:41 am
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: CYNJ CADORS
Replies: 31
Views: 6171

Re: CYNJ CADORS

The other thing to keep in mind is that Nav Canada is in the process of reducing service where they can (and really they've always been about saving money) so it stands to reason that Controllers and FSS Specialists would be wanting to "justify" their jobs in any and every possible way, including CA...
by Canoehead
Mon Feb 08, 2021 7:22 pm
Forum: Flight Training
Topic: Motion in flight simulator
Replies: 18
Views: 1789

Re: Motion in flight simulator

I will add that this is my 31st year training experienced training pilots for initial Approved Check Pilot delegation. I actually created the ACP course training standard for TCCA in 1989. I think it qualifies as descent experience. Last point that was intended in the paragraph you didn't like: I'm...
by Canoehead
Mon Feb 08, 2021 1:44 pm
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: Preventing Double Flameouts
Replies: 8
Views: 3494

Re: Preventing Double Flameouts

Air Nova had a couple with the Dash 8 years ago. One out of YQY and I thought there was another out of YYT or YDF but I can't find it right now. There's been a mod done to the intakes to help prevent this as well as new SOPs for the Dash 8 in terms of checking intakes. To my knowledge there's been n...
by Canoehead
Sun Feb 07, 2021 8:31 pm
Forum: Flight Training
Topic: Motion in flight simulator
Replies: 18
Views: 1789

Re: Motion in flight simulator

I have no idea worldwide, I can only speak for my operation. Your generalization about little effort being put in to ensure instructor quality seems to be quite blunt and rather broad. I agree on the first 10 words of the following quote, but the rest of those 3 lines certainly don't apply where I w...
by Canoehead
Sun Feb 07, 2021 7:27 pm
Forum: Flight Training
Topic: Motion in flight simulator
Replies: 18
Views: 1789

Re: Motion in flight simulator

All of the ones at my company have.
by Canoehead
Sat Feb 06, 2021 12:39 pm
Forum: Aviation Videos & Photos
Topic: B1-B Lancer
Replies: 4
Views: 3879

Re: B1-B Lancer

Back in the good old days, I remember the B1-B at the Shearwater Air Show. The Americans used to bring a ton of hardware there, and they flew several machines too. I will never forget the B1-B entering stage left from behind the hill (spectators sat on a great hill for viewing), wings swept back at ...

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