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- Wed Dec 04, 2019 7:46 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Do you log landings
- Replies: 22
- Views: 886
Re: Do you log landings
90 days/6 months corrected, my bad. Maybe it's just me, but I found landing and taking off to be the easiest part of night flying. The harder parts for me were flying without much reference when you're away from the lights of the city, and finding the airport when coming back to it. It seems odd tha...
- Tue Dec 03, 2019 7:35 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Do you log landings
- Replies: 22
- Views: 886
Re: Do you log landings
Fair enough. Why does five quick touch and go's after night begins not meet the intent of the regulation? Because it seems fairly clear to me that the intent is that you go off and do five flights, not just five tight circuit landings. Thereby expanding your experience flying somewhere at night, no...
- Mon Dec 02, 2019 7:36 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Do you log landings
- Replies: 22
- Views: 886
Re: Do you log landings
It's fairly common to see someone taxi out and bang out 5 quick circuits solo right after the sun sets, and then taxi in and load up with people. It meets the wording in the regs, but it sure doesn't meet the intent. Five quick circuits right after sunset doesn't meet the regulation at all. For fly...
- Sun Dec 01, 2019 10:54 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Do you log landings
- Replies: 22
- Views: 886
Re: Do you log landings
I only log take-offs and landings for night flying. I barely seem to get enough to stay current these days for night flying. Often requires some circuits before taking friends for a flight. It's fairly common to see someone taxi out and bang out 5 quick circuits solo right after the sun sets, and t...
- Thu Nov 28, 2019 7:14 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Do you log landings
- Replies: 22
- Views: 886
Re: Do you log landings
I log them because the number goes up higher than my total hours... :P Seriously though, I had a discussion once with an old airforce pilot who pointed out that the number of landings was more indicative of the level of experience than the number of hours total... One can fly for 4 hours and do one ...
- Wed Nov 27, 2019 7:43 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: The challenges for us all in flying green
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1836
Re: The challenges for us all in flying green
Your whole "carbon footprint" needs to be in the equation, so some single person who rides his bike to work everyday and flies his Cessna 150 for a couple hours on a sunny Sunday gets shamed by these "Greta green freaks" for doing so? Meanwhile some human breeder with 5 kids living in a mcMansion g...
- Tue Nov 26, 2019 7:36 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Whats the best headset to get
- Replies: 12
- Views: 663
Re: Whats the best headset to get
The search button. The search button will give you all of the advice above and more in many threads. This fellow is a seasoned veteran of AvCanada. His next post may be about purchasing a type rating on a metroliner. :lol: Unlikely... I've never flown anything with more than one engine or a turbine...
- Tue Nov 26, 2019 7:35 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: A Field Guide to NOTAMs
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1320
Re: A Field Guide to NOTAMs
And the headings in plain language, along with the NOTAMs themselves. A selection box that lets you identify your aircraft type, and have NOTAM's auto-select things that are relevant. A Cessna 150 won't care about a ramp weight restriction, for example. Or that the helipad is closed. Or that JetA is...
- Tue Nov 26, 2019 7:28 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: The challenges for us all in flying green
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1836
Re: The challenges for us all in flying green
Two hard surfaces rubbing creates byproducts. Regenerative Braking isn't two hard surfaces rubbing. It's a coil moving through a magnetic field to generate electricity. The bigger problem with the "greenifying" of aviation is that there isn't an economical way to do anything for light GA aircraft. ...
- Mon Nov 25, 2019 7:26 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Whats the best headset to get
- Replies: 12
- Views: 663
Re: Whats the best headset to get
The search button. The search button will give you all of the advice above and more in many threads.
- Fri Nov 22, 2019 7:42 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Joining the RCAF at 37 years old
- Replies: 42
- Views: 3874
Re: Joining the RCAF at 37 years old
Army cook? I would have found that hard to swallow as well.Gonzodriver wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2019 10:02 pm"Army Cook"..."grain of salt"......I see what you did there!
- Sun Nov 17, 2019 12:43 pm
- Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
- Topic: How to ensure you fail an AC interview
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4400
Re: How to ensure you fail an AC interview
Well, you can't expect him to reveal all his secrets... He has to keep something in reserve. Oh, wait...shimmydampner wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2019 7:32 amI suppose poor spelling, punctuation and grammar are fine though.![]()
- Sat Nov 16, 2019 8:26 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: VTA Changes
- Replies: 4
- Views: 878
Re: VTA Changes
They might be mentioned in the AIRAC updates, but I never read that section. And they aren't available to the public...
- Fri Nov 15, 2019 7:36 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Hangars for sale.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 935
Re: Hangars for sale.
#notallhangars. Some complexes are enforcing a must-have-an-aircraft policy. At least, we are.jakeandelwood wrote: ↑Thu Nov 14, 2019 11:24 amim suprised it has a plane in it, not full of cars and boats like all the hangars in YYJ
- Fri Nov 15, 2019 7:32 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: ADS-B
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1861
Re: ADS-B
This sounds a lot like "hey, we're jut going to keep moving on this the way we planned... Y'all just catch up once you decide on some regulations."
- Tue Nov 12, 2019 7:43 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Just Leave the Aircraft Behind
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1283
Re: Just Leave the Aircraft Behind
Well, my comment was only tongue-in-cheek as many have reported how horrible the new site is. Personally I find it usable, although it's high time we switched to a plain language format.
- Mon Nov 11, 2019 9:10 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Just Leave the Aircraft Behind
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1283
- Sun Nov 10, 2019 8:49 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Small aircraft operators making ‘gradual drift’ toward unsafe flying, says TSB
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1666
- Tue Nov 05, 2019 7:28 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: ADS-B
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1861
Re: ADS-B
Um... It's only the US that *isn't* adopting it. Most of the ROW *is* going with space-based ADS-B.
- Mon Nov 04, 2019 7:30 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: ADS-B
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1861
Re: ADS-B
While ADS-B-out may be *part* of the reason upgrading the jets is "too expensive," I would bet a lot of money that it's not the only reason. Other upgrades were likely cooking already, and ADS-B may just have been the straw that broke the camel's back. Diversity compliant systems aren't *that* expen...
- Fri Nov 01, 2019 6:54 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Commercial Solo Time Requirement
- Replies: 56
- Views: 1691
Re: Commercial Solo Time Requirement
I self-studied my private groundschool, which was questioned by my FTU when I went to learn to fly. I told them I wasn't paying for a groundschool course when i'd already studied it myself and passed all the practise exams. They asked me some questions about some obscure things to see if I knew my s...
- Tue Oct 29, 2019 6:42 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Cirrus chutes
- Replies: 88
- Views: 5176
Re: Cirrus chutes
:Once the large chute deploys, the descent rate is about 1,700ft per minute (518m) – so the impact you'd expect on the ground is equivalent to “jumping from a 4m tall ledge,” says Travis Klumb, Cessna’s director of flight operations." The Cirrus also has sacrificial legs that will crush to absorb a...
- Tue Oct 29, 2019 6:39 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: New NOTAM website - old site withdrawn
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3801
Re: New NOTAM website - old site withdrawn
It would. "NOTAMS are available online. Goodbye!"leftoftrack wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2019 12:18 amnot sure why every pilot in Canada doesn't phone FSS and ask for all the notams at the applicable airports. after 45 min with each caller, something would have to change on their end
- Thu Oct 24, 2019 6:30 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: C-gfxk (okotoks flight school) off airport
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3009
Re: C-gfxk (okotoks flight school) off airport
Wouldn't be the first time a CADOR was written with information that wasn't factually accurate, either.
- Tue Oct 22, 2019 6:30 am
- Forum: Aviation Videos & Photos
- Topic: RARE twin engine Evangel 4500 in Penticton BC
- Replies: 3
- Views: 439
Re: RARE twin engine Evangel 4500 in Penticton BC
Not only the last one flying... It's serial number 1 so it's also the first one flying.