The extravagant description with overextending debt is something i mostly notice with 35-45 year olds, not so much people just starting out.

What's wrong with flying over a lake at 15 ft to make ripples? If it makes your life easier, why not? Could be useful on bigger lakes as well, depending on your comfort and skill level. It's certainly safer than corethatthermal's proposed technique... Really? How much PIC float experience is this d...

C.W.E. wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 18, 2019 3:36 pm

What's wrong with flying over a lake at 15 ft to make ripples?

How do you safely fly that close to glassy water?

By not looking at the glassy water but by looking at the shoreline/bush/trees?

Gentlemen, Corethatthermal has twigged my memory. We were in this discussion years back and I said there was a way to make the small round glassy water lake more manageable. There is no time to set up a normal glassy water landing. Can't do the 250-300ft/min decent. Make a low pass, not 5 ft low bu...

Oh my. So many quotes just in the trailer alone... Time to start studying!

Looks like the military doesn't have the mandatory 65 retirment age...

I heard it from a friend who heard it from a AC agent that at check in you can check a “carryon” size bag for free regardless of ticket type. This is at check in not the gate. Nothing about this on AC website. Has anyone ever heard/experienced this. Yes. Some colleagues do this frequently as normal...

If you are just looking at yourself, first instructor and then IR will probably be easiest. However, I think you'd be a much better instructor if you did the IR first. For one you'll understand nav aids better (hopefully) and you'll be able to fly smoother and more precise. That would benefit you ev...

Maybe, just hopefully maybe, the government of Canada is updating their website so that it looks like it has kept up with change. A website whose front page looks like it's still stuck in 2004? Not to mention navigating that website... I don't know about anyone else, but I would actually appreciate...

For just about everything in piloting has a procedure, sometimes a few procedures for the same operation, pick the one you like, but procedures, none the less. Aside from some avionics innovations, I can't really think of a need for a new procedure in flying a certified GA plane - it's been done be...

jakeandelwood wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 14, 2019 12:12 pm

The last time I re-arranged my life for a wedding they divorced after 3 months

What did you do?

No, but that is hard to compare. Only 2 pilots vs a bunch of pax. Even if they were wearing no seatbelts, chances are they wouldn't have been hurt.

Faulty parallelism fallacy. Your equate: no seatbelt at all = no shoulder harness. You have no argument. The law is clear, and pilots use there judgment. I guarantee that the pilots on that flight didn't have their shoulder harness on and weren't injured. No I am claiming that both pax and pilots d...

Guys can wear their harness however they like in accordance with SOP/regulation and their judgement/prerogatives. 'Cause there are no overhead bins in the cockpit to hit with your head! I can't imagine not wanting to be strapped into the plane, unless there were a need to be out of my seat. Hmmm bu...

fish4life wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 12, 2019 9:08 pm

Except there is nothing uncomfortable about a lap belt in the back...

Right. Yet the shoulder harnesses in the flight deck apparently are and even give you bad posture?

Wouldn't you agree both arguments sound a bit ... similar?

Why are we talking about the pilots? Everyone unlatched their shoulder belts above 10k unless it’s definitely going to be gnarly. Aha, thank you! I'm assuming that the other posters would do the same. Pilots don't wear their shoulder harness unless it is definitely going to be gnarly. Pax don't wea...

But, the shoulder harness does nothing to keep you safe unless you're decelerating. It then holds your upper torso from tilting forward and prevents hitting your head on the glareshield, like a shoulder belt of a car helps when you have a head on collision. The lap belt is what keeps you in the sea...

... and do you lock down your harness? Not sure what you mean exactly, but I wear my seatbelts/harness the same way at every time in the flight, whether I'm on short final or in cruise. How about you answer my question now? Curious: you are flying at FL320. There is moderate and severe turbulence f...

I fly with pilots that routinely unhook their shoulder harnesses for whatever perceived advantage. I don't get that either. It's just more comfortable, and as mentioned there isn't a safety advantage. Curious: you are flying at FL320. There is moderate and severe turbulence forecasted in the area. ...

Rooster69 wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 12, 2019 7:00 am

How come on every 5 point harness, there is a latch you can press to just unbuckle the shoulder harnesses?

Not sure if this is sarcasm, but mine don't have that anyways. It's all or nothing, yet people still mess around and untighten just the 2 shoulder ones.

I fly with pilots that routinely unhook their shoulder harnesses for whatever perceived advantage. I don't get that either.

The idea is not that you would use the knife to carsh your airplane, but that you would give the knife to another passenger on another flight so they can attempt to hijack the flight.

But it's still ridiculous. If you can do it with a butter knife, you can do it without a butter knife as well

Seems to be a beaver: The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) has confirmed to SooToday that there has been a plane crash in Hawk-Junction, Ont. just outside of Wawa. The plane was a de Haviland Canada DHC-2 Beaver. TSB has stated that they are deploying investigators, who will arrive on the...

Never been asked for mine. Then again with airlines nowadays you never know.

I got one on the way to an interview once. Then I asked the cop if I could answer the phone as the interviewer was calling me to tell me he was running late. Good times...

corethatthermal wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 10, 2019 8:09 am

WHY go to the moon again and WHY go to Mars? We have enough problems on this here little planet to overcome !

If you have to ask, you'll never understand.

Beefitarian wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 10, 2019 7:13 am

I like the gofund me idea but forget Kim jong.
I say digits and I go and live stream it on the internet. He's been to the north pole, let's do this!

I have a great gag planned for when we return through the van allen belt.

Do you think we can do it in a 172?