Nearest good size airport with VMC seems to have been KBUF. I wonder if they talked to ATC at all.

CYHM 130900Z 32005KT 3SM -SN OVC008 01/01 A3011 RMK SC8 PRESFR SLP205 CYHM 130800Z 28002KT 3SM -SN FEW024 OVC045 01/01 A3013 RMK SC2SC6 SLP211 CYHM 130700Z 35003KT 10SM -SN FEW030 OVC046 01/01 A3013 RMK SC2SC6 SLP214 CYHM 130600Z 01003KT 10SM -SN FEW004 BKN060 OVC080 01/01 A3016 RMK SC2SC5AC1 SLP222...

Cap'n Tripps wrote: Plane in crash off Pelee Island ice-laden, overloaded: report

That part of the quoted article applies to the 2004 Caravan crash, not yesterday's crash.

I am struggling with the same question over and over Yup. And fresh email from the TSB suggests extra information is not easily forthcoming: Thank you for your message and for your interest into the investigation report on the occurrence A13C0150. Flight Data Recorder (FDR) data are included in inv...

Well, with all respect, if you think that a TPE331-11 spinning at 96% at zero torque is a garden-variety engine failure then I really have nothing to add. Fair enough - I don't know how weird that is. OTOH, if one ignores the gauges and flies by the seat of one's pants - i.e., experiences the yaw, ...

Well, below is an excerpt from the accident report. That is manufacturer's contribution to the accident. Should we not board Metros now because our trust in them is shaken? The other part is difference in nozzle overhaul ... That part sounded like a type of flaw that results in a fairly garden-vari...

Ki-ll wrote:Was the crew of this fight trained and was the airplane certified for this occurrence?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauda_Air_Flight_004

(No, but that seems to fit into the "airframe is broken" class of failure, like UA232.)

The aspect is such that the engine is neither in NTS mode, nor feathered. Yes, it was a partial engine failure. Since the aircraft lacked autofeather, it was up to the pilots to do that. Add to that the fact that engine gauges were showing normal indications on all but one parameter and you have a ...

The crew encountered a condition which happens twice in a million flight hours. It was not a simple engine out condition, hence no one trains for it and the airplane is not certified for that either. It was a partial single engine failure on final. What aspect of it exactly is untrained-for and unc...

Um, yaw? Dead foot, dead engine a new concept for some of you I guess? Good point ... the TSB report doesn't even mention pilot error in the findings as such; doesn't that seem unusual? _Should_ they have been able to identify the nature ... etc.? 3.1.3. The crew were unable to identify the nature ...

It would have been helpful to see a transcript of the CVR and the data curves from the FDR, to figure out whether they were aware of the airspeed loss, and to explain the power reductions tens of seconds before the crash.

Jellyman wrote:Twin engine training needs to change

Could you elaborate?

If I was weathered in using a rental outfit such as you describe and they tried to charge me I would refuse to pay (knowing I would never rent there again) and let them take me to small claims. If they did (unlikely) somehow the media would find out and we all know how they LOVE terror in the sky s...

Thanks y'all for the advice. We opted to land at Springbank and drive, due to my inexperience and (now expected) far-less-than-perfect weather.

I'm a >1000hr flatlander CPL/MIFR Aztec pilot. I'm trying to set expectations with my passengers (family) about hopping over the rockies in early summer. Being new to mountain flying, and having a few days' buffer, I plan to try it only if weather is great (low winds, apprx SKC), over the top at 10,...

<i>Tick, tick, tick: Time's running out for Porter Airlines
JOHN BARBER</i>

Barber has been babbling about CYTZ for years now. There is no need to start taking him seriously.

chipmunk wrote:...3 years ago yesterday.

Two.
http://www.avcanada.ca/forums2/viewtopi ... 5930#45930

Ralliart wrote:Anyone used the Garmin iQue 3600a?

Yes, happy with mine for six months now, both in the airplane and in the
car. Same display capabilities as the 295/6, plus PalmOS software,
plus more compact size, plus cheaper! Minus water proofing.

What are typical IFR alternates that people file for a trip to Thunder Bay? The only "nearby" airports seem to be on the US side, or >100nm away, with non-precision approaches only.

Any check pilot who demands that I wear such an unorthodox device will not be flying with me on any check ride. I sympathize, and consider occasionally sufficient self-discipline as "equivalent" for logging purposes. However, these devices are hardly unorthodox (having been used for probably five d...

If you're up at FL270 and ontop of a layer basking in the sun and blue sky for your entire enroute portion I still log this as actual. You don't have reference to the ground and therefore can't be legally VFR. Never heard of VFR-over-the-top? It's funny just what sort of contortions people are doin...

Skill? What is "skill" in relation to two 10000-hr ATPL's ... Skill is way down the list- behind attitude, experience, and leadership qualities Fair enough, "skill" encompasses the totality of performance. This is where the seniority concept becomes a necessary evil ... becomes the tie breaker I do...

xduster wrote:When i ask for it "If able we'd like to do the contact approach" Center comes back with "If able contact approach approved"

I guess that answers whether it's legal. Sounds like a good idea then.

Since i don't meet the requirement of a contact at this time. I ask "If able (once below the cloud deck and meetiing the requirements) that i'd like to do the contact". But what exactly are you doing by telling the controller this? Not requesting clearance for a contact approach, since you can't ac...