Doc wrote:Do they certify Travel Airs for known ice?? Ban the hood!

Doc, "P's" BE-95s are certified for known icing and have been for many years.

Cheers,
BD

Yep, mine's there. I have that particular aircraft in my logbog... 1989. I absolutely loved my time in that town!!

Safe Flying,
Cheers

BirdDog wrote: Could have something to do with RED FLAG going on in the States right now. They had 10 Mirages and a tanker stop over in YWG a few weeks ago enroute to Nellis AFB I believe. Cheers BD Green Flag just finished 2 weeks ago in Neillis. Max My Bad (at least,partially)...RED FLAG- Alaska ...

Could have something to do with RED FLAG going on in the States right now. They had 10 Mirages and a tanker stop over in YWG a few weeks ago enroute to Nellis AFB I believe.

Cheers
BD

Astro-NOT

sorry...couldn't resist.

Gryphon, holy crap...3 years with the Saint-Jean Moffia....ewww...shudder...ewww! My hats off to you! Capt. Cool,There is a lot of good advice and comments given in this thread... I'm in the training mill myself holding down a great OJT posting while I wait for YMJ and pinch myself everday for this ...

There is one operating out of Stewiacke, Nova Scotia...Sky Diving operation... that is until recently I believe... I guess there are some issues with TC and Canadian certification... I believe it was operating under a loophole (for lack of a better term) with its origininal foreign registration. Che...

It is a great video!!! The reason it is of such high quality is that it was professionally done for a French movie coming out this year. Do a search on the same site for "Its My Life" .... another video from the same movie... therefore same high quality...you will not be dissapointed. Its focus is o...

Its located at DRDC (Defense Research & Development Canada) formerly known as DCIEM (Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine). However, a scan of their website indicates that their hyperbaric chamber is not intended for human applications...In the past, DND had a chamber in both YWG an...

Bad news.... A Canadian Forces Sea King went down off the coast of Denmark during night exercises. Good news...All on board are safe. Press release follows: http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/02/02/seaking060202.html A Canadian Navy Sea King helicopter crashed 50 kilometres off the coast o...

"I'm trying to see it from your perspective...but I can't get my head that far up my ass!!!"


"Never argue with an idiot...they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience"


Happy New Year folks!
Safe Flying,
Cheers

I was refering to the aka: "Mike Hunt"
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av8tor_assrope wrote:Michael Hunter (aka Mike Hunt)

I actually have a buddy of mine with your "aka" name in the aviation business... hell of a guy and his name evokes a chuckle every time by all those close to him every time his name is mentioned.

Safe Flying,
Cheers

Almost forgot, some of our Newfoundland friends may be able to shed some light on this one....not sure of make/model or circumstances surrounding this occurrence but apparently there are some bones located on the approach into Argentia, NF.... visible in the water at low tide.

Another C-46 in Northern MB other than the Shamattawa one mentioned; another one I stumbled across was a Banshee in a wooded area around CQ3.

Safe Flying,
Cheers

Precision Approach Radar (PAR), did some in Greenwood (CYZX) on Rwy 26, very cool and a lot of fun.

Safe Flying,
Cheers

Pretty funny bit from "This hour has 22 minutes", Bubbles goes to Cold Lake...Check it out:

http://www.cbc.ca/22minutes/video.html

Here's a link to a great video from a fellow East Coaster, Terry Kelly. I posted this an another forum thought it appropriate for this thread. We can not say thank you enough, far too many take what we have for granted. Lest We Forget. :( http://www.army.gc.ca/chief_land_staff/remembrance/English/vi...

scubasteve & mellow_ pilot, thanks for the clarification.

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Isis, Wow....that is awesome. Make sure you preserve the log books and never let them go... you can make some serious money for those especially if there is any history... Resist temptation and hold on to them...that's gold! What did your grandfather fly? As for the graveyard or bone yards....I'd ab...

WJflyer, did you build them? Are they factory or custom mahogany? I have just started getting some of the aircraft I have flown custom made out of mahogany… It can be done relatively cheap with custom paint to the specific aircraft you flew. My goal is to ultimately track the lineage of my career wi...

Hey Folks, I was just wondering if anyone else on this forum collects any aviation memorabilia or anything else that may be interesting for that matter. I don’t know where or how it started but it has turned into a bit of hobby of mine. I thought it would be interesting to see what or if anyone else...

Glider '88
Power '89
Later... Inst. Standards and Tow Check Pilot
Now with DND

There is a myriad of suppliers out there that could provide that model. I don't know if there is an off the shelf model specific to Kelowna Flightcraft out there ready to go but you might want to e-mail this gentleman: builderscience@yahoo.com His name is Winston and he will make you a mahogany mode...

I've looked into Athabasca University a few years ago and it looked pretty good for what you want to do. I ended up going another route several years later for various reasons . Make sure you inquire about their credit system as they previously gave credit for your commercial pilot licence...30 cred...