Europe, you get a restricted ATPL until you hit your 1500 hours No you don't. There is no restricted ATPL in EASA regulations (Europe). You're likely referring to the concept of a 'frozen ATPL'. That refers to a CPL holder who has passed all ATPL written exams. But it's not an official concept. It'...

How are the troubles in the Middle East affecting Canadian airlines?

Emirates is operating near emptry flights. Any major issues for Canadians? Fuel price could have disastrous economic consequences, any other airline specific threats out there?

pelmet wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2026 2:06 am
Is it possible that the F/O suggested slowing down to avoid exceeding the maximum gear speed? That would seem to be a good callout, depending on how it was done.

That's exactly what happened

cncpc wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2026 12:07 am It manifested in the lad calling the hung gear, and then directing the captain to slow down. Neither of those things would have been in his training or in any SOP.

Does NWAL not have a 'gear up and locked' or similar call in their SOPs when the gear cycle is complete?

Pardon my very limited bush experience, but is it considered normal ops to fly fast after take-off to blow any residual snow off the wings? Wouldn't the ability to get off the ground mean that the wings are providing enough lift at lower speeds so you managed to cheat death? Swept-wing jets can get...

I am not punching down on Flight Attendants; however I do believe in keeping it real and honest. I trust (by your posts) that you are not a Pilot? Find me another job that you can get with ZERO Prerequisites, take a few week company paid course, a lifetime of free workwear, a Pension and an excelle...

Like besides limiting supply would it actually lead to more knowledgeable ATPL holders after they write the exam? Yes. Definitely. Quite a bit of knowledge on general turbine principles that in North America even barely get touched on during typerating courses. More in depth airline level performan...

If you are not "assigned" a "STAR Runway Transition" you can only go down to 6000 ft in this case. If you are "assigned" a "STAR Runway Transition" you can go down to 4000 ft. Can we at least agree on that? The question is what is your definition of "assigned". To me, it needs to be a statement fro...

It's definitely on the pilots if they don't use the holdover times correctly, but to be fair, the table headers don't help much. I remember thinking that people were joking around when telling me that light snow in the table doesn't match light snow in the metar. It would probably help a lot if the ...

Eventually there will be no difference. For now, full unrestricted ATPL holders might have a slight advantage because companies might not have the COM changes in place to fully deal with restricted ATPL holders, or might be slightly hesitant om hiring their first one. Then again, a full ATPL will mo...

10 seconds of descending before impact is a long time for no one to take corrective action by increasing pitch. The gear not fully retracting isn't critical when you are in such a high area of vulnerability. The PM calls the malfunction and immediately goes back to monitoring the climb. The PF says...

Grab the controls and pull up instead of just calling descending. Well yes, but that's not the issue I was asking about. I'm trying to find out why a captain would *not* want to know about a gear retraction failure/issue when he calls for gear up. Or how the FO can keep that information to himself ...

Read the report, and get back to us. Wonderful insightful reply. Yes I read the report. Just because the captain and/or FO got possibly distracted too much by the failure, doesn't mean the FO should keep the failure of a system to himself. I'll ask you again: what's the alternative? You want the FO...

I can't imagine that the Captain would have been happy to have the FO interrupt the process with non emergency info about a gear light still red at just over 100 feet Why not? I certainly would want to know if my gear didn't go up when I asked for it. Don't they have something in their SOPs such as...

I know it was allowed in the past, and I have done it, but I've heard the rule has changed. The CARS say no, but it doesn't say anything about an exemption for "non revenue" flights, which seems silly to me as why would anything be more or less safe if the flight was revenue or not. The argument my...

This will/should be defined in your ops manual. It might be more restrictive than just the cars.

I don't think there's anything preventing you from doing that flight single pilot without autopilot.

Hey Postmaster why the attitude? Did you mean to quote the original poster and not me? I wasn't asking about the altitude, I haven't flown to major airports in the US very much, never been to Phoenix, and I'm wondering how JAMIL can appear to have 2 different tracks after it for 08. According to th...

I'm surprised the TSB report put so much emphasis on wing contamination. The real issue seems to be fiddling with the engines to reduce airspeed at 100 feet above ground instead of just climbing. Scary to see blackhole get another highly experienced pilot. Could be because he was concerned with inc...

According to the STAR plate notes, you'd continue on a track of 108 after JAMIL for RV for 08. Yet on the approach plate, JAMIL is on the loc, straight in on 078. It's likely your STAR will be cancelled before you reach JAMIL. If not,it likely means they can't give you an approach yet and so you fl...

I've also personally spoken to a female plumbing apprentice who quit because she found the professional environment extremely hostile to women. She was sad about having to quit because she really enjoyed the actual job. I have a feeling a lot of men don't like the culture for certain apprentice job...

But, the drug cocktail in her system was wild and clearly impairing. This is why regulators the world over are trying to crack down on non-reporting and are so difficult to deal with when it comes to medication use. People like this who claim to be using an OTC seasonal allergy medication only - bu...

On October 20, 2021, the pilot passed her Private Pilot Airplane Airmen Knowledge Test. On May 14, 2022, she passed her private pilot (single-engine land) practical test, at which time she had accumulated 193.2 hours total flight time. Of those hours, 182.6 were dual instruction received; nearly al...

On October 20, 2021, the pilot passed her Private Pilot Airplane Airmen Knowledge Test. On May 14, 2022, she passed her private pilot (single-engine land) practical test, at which time she had accumulated 193.2 hours total flight time. Of those hours, 182.6 were dual instruction received; nearly al...

Sounds like a political statement without much effect. Also seems hard to enforce, especially in non unionized airlines where salary discussions will happen.

Speedbrakes wrote: ↑Fri Feb 20, 2026 6:15 am In addition to runway condition codes we might need to start taxiway conditions codes.

How would that work in practice though, 15 minute long ATIS messages?

Did these planes do something different than all the others who did not slide off? Or was it just pure luck?