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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

The search button. The search button will give you all of the advice above and more in many threads.

Gonzodriver wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 20, 2019 10:02 pm

"Army Cook"..."grain of salt"......I see what you did there!

Army cook? I would have found that hard to swallow as well.

shimmydampner wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 17, 2019 7:32 am

I suppose poor spelling, punctuation and grammar are fine though.

Well, you can't expect him to reveal all his secrets... He has to keep something in reserve. Oh, wait...

They might be mentioned in the AIRAC updates, but I never read that section. And they aren't available to the public...

jakeandelwood wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 14, 2019 11:24 am

im suprised it has a plane in it, not full of cars and boats like all the hangars in YYJ

#notallhangars. Some complexes are enforcing a must-have-an-aircraft policy. At least, we are.

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."

Heliian wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 11, 2019 10:29 am

I don't understand what's so difficult about the new site, you might be doing it wrong.

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.

Maynard wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 10, 2019 2:56 pm

\And the kicker had he/she checked the notams it never would’ve happened. Double whaaaamy.

Maybe they did check the NOTAMs and the important one was buried in the hundred others and somewhere between two about the 737 Max8.

PilotDAR wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 09, 2019 5:09 pm

FAR 23.25: 170 pounds per seat;

An excellent example of a regulation that needs updating. It's been a long time since 170 lbs was the average passenger. Certainly in North America if not elsewhere as well.

charrois wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 04, 2019 3:40 pm

...I think space-based ADS-B is a great idea in theory... to a degree.... but that's contingent on the whole world adopting that convention and associated avionics, not just Canada.

Um... It's only the US that *isn't* adopting it. Most of the ROW *is* going with space-based 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...

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...

: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...

leftoftrack wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 29, 2019 12:18 am

not 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

It would. "NOTAMS are available online. Goodbye!"

Wouldn't be the first time a CADOR was written with information that wasn't factually accurate, either.

Not only the last one flying... It's serial number 1 so it's also the first one flying.