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by rapid602
Mon Aug 11, 2014 3:10 pm
Forum: Flight Training
Topic: Advice?! Brantford Flying Club vs WWFC?!
Replies: 36
Views: 7190

Re: Advice?! Brantford Flying Club vs WWFC?!

Remeber this .... it is your money ... and you are hiring someone to teach you fly ... I would personally go to each of the schools you are interested in .. set up an appointment to meet with someone who will show you around ... meet some instructors ... check out the planes .... and see which one m...
by rapid602
Mon Aug 11, 2014 3:10 pm
Forum: Flight Training
Topic: Advice?! Brantford Flying Club vs WWFC?!
Replies: 36
Views: 7190

Re: Advice?! Brantford Flying Club vs WWFC?!

Remeber this .... it is your money ... and you are hiring someone to teach you fly ... I would personally go to each of the schools you are interested in .. set up an appointment to meet with someone who will show you around ... meet some instructors ... check out the planes .... and see which one m...
by rapid602
Sun Mar 02, 2014 4:37 pm
Forum: Flight Training
Topic: Configuration and pilots failings
Replies: 6
Views: 1514

Re: Configuration and pilots failings

Worked for a company as an MU2 Pilot and just before I got there a Pilot flying solo was positioning the aircraft to an airport and flew the thing approx 120 feet down the runway on the belly and got it airbourne .... Quite the feat for an MU2 good job keeping a round aircraft off the props and gett...
by rapid602
Tue Dec 03, 2013 11:49 pm
Forum: Flight Training
Topic: IFR software for practice
Replies: 17
Views: 2692

Re: IFR software for practice

I had a forced feed back joystick and gave it away but it was great fun running off the end of the runway or crashing on purpose. I bought a saitek yoke and throttle system with extra throttle and rudders for about $400. You can set it up so you have 2 throttle 2 props 2 mixtures. it has several but...
by rapid602
Mon Dec 02, 2013 2:38 pm
Forum: Health & Fitness
Topic: BMI and sleep Apnea
Replies: 27
Views: 19806

Re: BMI and sleep Apnea

I have had sleep apnea for years .. and use the Super Charger lol ... when I got sleep apnea my wight went from 180 to 296 .... CPAP ... my next size was 21 inches.... I am now hovering 200 and my neck size is 17 inches..... That cpap rocks I can stay up for like 36 hours at a time and drive late at...
by rapid602
Mon Dec 02, 2013 2:08 pm
Forum: Flight Training
Topic: IFR software for practice
Replies: 17
Views: 2692

Re: IFR software for practice

I use MS Flight sim X on my desk top with throttles rudder pedals and a yoke. real world plates and maps and the gps rocks !!!! You can buy a higher end lap top from places like Factory direct .... on line ... for really cheap. I just bought a quad core lap top with a high end graphics card for $400...
by rapid602
Sat Oct 05, 2013 1:09 pm
Forum: Corporate
Topic: N512JT Gulfstream 5 (Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment)
Replies: 10
Views: 9194

Re: N512JT Gulfstream 5 (Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainmen

A few years ago my buddy was an AME on one based in Canada (Southwestern Ontario) and I seem to think that it was flying an N Registration and I think we had the conversation of flying an N Tail # in Canada). The pilots were Canadian. The answer was that the aircraft was not type rated by Canada. I ...
by rapid602
Sun Aug 11, 2013 6:19 am
Forum: Aviation Videos & Photos
Topic: CF-BBQ Waco Bi-Plane 1937
Replies: 6
Views: 1210

Re: CF-BBQ Waco Bi-Plane 1937

Awesome video to watch over my morning coffee.

Thank you for posting this.
by rapid602
Sun Aug 11, 2013 5:56 am
Forum: Flight Training
Topic: Instructor Rating - PGI
Replies: 32
Views: 9760

Re: Instructor Rating - PGI

I wish you were my flight instructor when I was learning how to fly. I remember hearing my first instructor yelling Flair Flair Flair as I was watching the runway coming up o hit us ..... thinking to myself .. "what is a flair " Moral of the story ... don't always assume the student knows ... I real...
by rapid602
Sun Aug 04, 2013 12:13 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Night Medevacs
Replies: 68
Views: 6252

Re: Night Medevacs

Interesting all the pioints of view on medivacs .... There is good reading here. I just wanted to add about the waste of Government money here. I think Doc mentioned that. I started doing Medivacs with Bearskin in the mid late 80's and then for a company out of Sault Ste. Marie. There were some trip...
by rapid602
Fri Jul 26, 2013 4:46 am
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: TSB at site of downed Cessna 185 east of Keswick ON July 25
Replies: 16
Views: 3368

Re: TSB at site of downed Cessna 185 east of Keswick ON July

Is that a Cessna ???? looks like a Piper Commanche !!!

Sorry the link above has pics and say its a Beech.

Either way I hope every one is going to be OK.

Fly Safe All.
by rapid602
Wed May 22, 2013 9:15 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Pilot License Number Meaning
Replies: 43
Views: 9870

Re: Pilot License Number Meaning

When I started flying in Ontario in 1979 the Student Pilot Permit was X2#####, Private was YZP 2#####, Commercial was YZC plus the digits and ATPL was YZA plus the digits and now no letters just the digits. The numbers have always stayed the same. My licence was alway 6 numbers, I had a PPC once and...
by rapid602
Sat May 18, 2013 6:31 am
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: DHC-2 Plane Crash May 2008 YXL (Pilot`s account)
Replies: 54
Views: 9254

Re: DHC-2 Plane Crash May 2008 YXL (Pilot`s account)

Thank you very much for sharing such a very personal story. Gives you an appreciation to make all of the Saturdays that you have left to live, Important Memories. Glad you are well and hear to share. To the Colonel .. sir you say some pretty powerful things and there is wisdom in your comments, alth...
by rapid602
Sat May 18, 2013 12:55 am
Forum: Flight Training
Topic: Night Rating or Tail Dragger Training
Replies: 28
Views: 2734

Re: Night Rating or Tail Dragger Training

I was looking into renting at the Woodstock Flying Club they show a Piper J3 Cub and my buddy rents in Burlington and he said that they have a Piper Cub as well.

I hope this helps.

Fly Safe All
by rapid602
Thu Apr 25, 2013 6:47 am
Forum: Flight Training
Topic: G1000 or similar training
Replies: 4
Views: 744

Re: G1000 or similar training

I am pretty sure that I saw a dvd training video when I was in Sportys Pilot shops web site. I know that Microsoft Flight Sim X has some aircraft in there that have the Garmin 1000 in them and you acutually fly them in the simulator right on your computer.

Hope this helps. Fly Safe
by rapid602
Mon Apr 08, 2013 2:25 pm
Forum: Flight Training
Topic: Looking forward to this
Replies: 20
Views: 2497

Re: Looking forward to this

Colonel ... I watched that video and it was GREAT ... thank you for sharing that. Some of the best flying I ever did was in my buddies Champ ... in the summer, after supper watching the sun set over Lake Superior, with the door up or off. MU 2 and Citation and yet the Champ wins every time. That was...
by rapid602
Wed Apr 03, 2013 5:44 am
Forum: Health & Fitness
Topic: Aspertame and vision problems.
Replies: 18
Views: 14520

Re: Aspertame and vision problems.

Below is a part of an email ... I kept in my email inbox since 2008. This is Nasty Stuff and please read it and do your own research ... but the public has the right to know ~~~ Diet soda is NOT a diet product! It is a chemically altered, multiple SODIUM (salt) and ASPARTAME containing product that ...
by rapid602
Wed Apr 03, 2013 5:37 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Soft Drinks & Flight: Aspertame Content
Replies: 27
Views: 4199

Re: Soft Drinks & Flight: Aspertame Content

I just posted a link on my Facebook Page about this stuff. It is appearently nasty stuff. It turns poisonous at 86 degress F, and your average body temp is 98. But I saw something on the news about it the other day and they said that "It is widely known in the aviation industry among pilots NOT TO D...
by rapid602
Thu Feb 28, 2013 2:41 pm
Forum: Aviation Videos & Photos
Topic: Bob Hoover- Shrike Commander Performance
Replies: 2
Views: 814

Re: Bob Hoover- Shrike Commander Performance

I saw Bob Hoover at Oshkosh in the late 70's fly the Shrike Commander.

WOW .... the man was an airplanes best friend.
by rapid602
Thu Feb 28, 2013 2:22 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Multi FO time vs. Single PIC time
Replies: 23
Views: 2329

Re: Multi FO time vs. Single PIC time

Just an insight to down the road a few years. Alot of people who start in the right seat and stay in the right seat have trouble with the 25 hours ( I think thats the number) of PIC NIGHT CROSS COUNTRY to meet the requirements for the ATPL. 500 or 600 hours of PIC is much better looking than very li...

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