The issue is, it's hard to take about any of this stuff without examining basically every aspect of how man are treated differently from women (and vice versa) in society from childhood to adults. DEI is such a broad phrase it's almost worthless to use. It could mean almost anything to anyone. As a...

Have you ever actually asked a woman why they don't go into this field? Have you ever talked to a woman in the trades? The reason is the men! Well there you go folks. We now know that if the city I live in decides to stop using private companies for trash collection and decides to hire only women f...

First of all, the tiny ratio could be due to girls not even realizing this career field is open to them. Gender norms and influences get ingrained very early on. Females know that every career is open to them now. Can we stop the intentional lies? Do you honestly think that somehow, there were only...

I would call that an irrelevant argument. The more important question would be prior to becoming aware of the hostile professional environment.... what was a male/female ratio in her training class. I bet it was tiny, which proves lack of attraction. Assuming that the same professional environments...

In reality, it doesn't attract very many people but men are much more willing to bite the bullet and do the job than women. In other words, a lot more women will outright refuse to do that job than men when push comes to shove, even if the monetary reward is reasonable. Again, I think you are not v...

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 would call that an irrelevant argument. The more important question would be ...

Perhaps so. Fewer women could be interested in a profession AND there could be systemic barriers for those who are interested. Those two things are not mutually exclusive. Could be this, could be that. A person could come up with all kinds of "coulds" with no actual evidence to back any of it up. I...

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 would call that an irrelevant argument. The more important question would be ...

They refuse to accept the reality that women are just not nearly as interested in certain jobs. They have never once seen a female garbage collector and have probably never seen a female plumber, roofer, pest control person, etc. The reason is obvious yet that can't extrapolate that to other career...

After posting I decided to see what I could find and essentially the most recent census data has all three, pilots, plumbers and electricians equally represented at 5% female If we can accept that women are a lot less interested in plumbing without controversy, why all the backlash in stating the s...

They have never once seen a female garbage collector and have probably never seen a female plumber, roofer, pest control person, etc. The reason is obvious yet that can't extrapolate that to other careers. Had a bathroom renovation done here last year, both the plumber and the electrician on that j...

About 90 % of the Canadian airline pilots are white males. White males represent about 32% of the entire Canadian population. So is the fact that 90 % of the pilots are white males due to 1) Only White males are good enough to he pilots, or 2) Only a very small percentage of the 68% of the Canadian...

186 hours dual, 11 hours solo at the time of the checkride :shock: There are scenarios where this wouldn't be a red flag, but in combination with the other data in the report, it doesn't paint a good picture. Must have been horrible for the passenger. Can you give us a scenario where that does not ...

As for the comments from instructors and the FTU that she was barely competent, how the hell did she pass her ride(s)? I did a checkride at an airline where the captain had a stickshaker event and some worriesome navigation after an engine failure with high mountains around and trouble taxiing afte...

Fairly rare(fortunately), but perhaps a pilot planning on skiplane ops someday will want to use this as a reference.... C-FOXF, a privately operated, amateur-built KitFox Series V aircraft, was conducting a visual flight rules (VFR) flight to and from St-Lambert-De-Lauzon Aerodrome, QC (CST7). After...

If the taxiways turn out to be glare ice, might want to stop and get the sweeping(or urea vehicles) to go ahead of you first. Could take a while. Residual engine thrust could be an issue of really slippery. Maybe have the APU already running in case you decide to shut down engines quickly. Then agai...

Just read through this thread after having finally read the report(by coincidence, my third Air Tindi accident report this year). Almost all of this thread is simply back and forth about THC and little, if anything, about the pilot's actions that led to the accident. There is a brief, hidden clue th...

To be honest, it looks like a panic return after an engine fire indication where all else, was pretty much cast aside in a panic. On the initial climbout, there was an engine fire warning and the engine was shut down. It turned out that it was a false warning. According to the report, the crew(whic...

No anti-skid protection below 10 knots on the E2. This is a good point to remember. It seems that most(if not all) anti-skid systems are only good down to 10 or 15 knots(not sure about the good old Maxarets but they were a mechanical system). Below that, the pilot is the anti-skid. Minor situation ...

cjp wrote: ↑Fri Feb 13, 2026 7:08 am
Sounds like the runway was worse than reported.

In freezing precipitation conditions, the runway conditions should automatically be expected to be worse than reported and treated as such.

Tailwind on approach again like the 747 that went off the end? Tower says wind 070/10 cleared to land runway 14. However, I was wondering why they were not keeping the long runway open to have a good headwind. That being said, if it turns out to simply be a situation of taxiing faster than necessar...

“Plan to exit at the end” is a common phrase associated with overruns in contaminated runway/reduced friction conditions. And while it is NOT the controllers responsibility to fly the plane, it can become a trap if the pilots are not hyper aware of potential reduced friction hazards on the landing ...

But wasn't there a third option? This was to simply do a 360 degree descending turn soon after turning final when they were well above 1000' agl(or could have been a 270 degree left turn from their base leg). It could be at a fairly low power setting as altitude is being lost with minimal controlla...

From TSB via Google Translate(Sep 14/25).... C-GUIC, a private Cessna 185 on floats, was conducting a visual flight rules (VFR) flight near Weldie Lake (N46 43 18, W76 39 35), QC, 40 nautical miles northwest of Maniwaki, QC (CYMW), with the pilot and two passengers on board. Due to engine trouble, t...

Final report: https://tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/aviation/2024/a24a0014/a24a0014.html 1000 hour King Air Captains? Times have certainly changed! If they'd just climbed to the MSA - taken a few extra minutes and flown the ILS this would have been a non event - jmho. Read the report. To be honest...