Pa-31's into U-city, Woody's, 2 feet off the channel on your way back empty from JF3 with beers waiting at the hanger, mexician ILS into YVT, night medivac's in a snowstorm, frozen breaks in JMF and all the rest. :D 8) FM fun with cabbies and diggers, Pho in La Ronge, fish fish fish and acrobatics ...

AvWeb's recent release, March 29 2014 Space-Based Tracking System Launches in 2017

The company doing it: Aerion

How is the whole paving 1000ft into a lake thing going for Porter? They should prepare to feel very uncomfortable in the next few months with Encore flying around their turf, and a train to Pearson. Better make another offer Deluce. Okay... Last I checked, WS is already serving the same markets tha...

You can taxi a Q400 with one in feather but no operator will do it . Simple reason is cost. Typical fuel savings with one in feather on the Dash 8 100 and 300 are good. Even better on the Q400, but due to the added torque and strain on the nose gear, the cost of repair and maintenance out weighs th...

Personally I believe after things get sorted out and all the bugs worked out that it will also be a well loved jet by all parties. I think at the end of the day, the only parties who will end up hating the C-series are Airbus and Boeing. :wink: And two others: No Jets T.O. & Community Air :wink:

FICU wrote:

aileron wrote:Well here is your answer: Range Capabilities - Straight from the source

What it doesn't answer is the amount of payload it can lift to make that range estimate.

Okay, here is your easy button: Range Capability Assumptions

As fanblade has shown above, there is plenty of reason to be highly skeptical of the numbers. I support Porter, but even as a CPL/IFR student, the published takeoff run/range numbers from BBD and Porter's plans to go as far as LAX seem unrealistic. That said, we are all assuming the plans are to go...

And thank you to the Peanut Gallery... Obie/Cargo Fire, thank you for your wonderful and insightful echoing of some so-called aviation experts out there - whom for the most part are un-marketable wannabes who pounce on an opportunity to be heard. And now, enter stage left, drum roll please - Reality...

Very well said Gino.

Mr. Andrew Fenton, pilot and aviation enthusiast died Saturday April 13th 2013 in Fort St. John, BC.

Many folks here would remember his website Jetthrust dot com; his handle was Jetblast.

Blue skies my friend, may you have eternal peace...

Beach 200 wrote:The intake on the engine cowling is in Porter colours. WTF??

We had 4 remaining options; we likely released them back to Bombardier.

Fanblade, et al, the quoted figures are for balanced field ops - straight from the CP. A lot of homework was done prior to this decision, we didn't just fall off the turnip truck you know! WRT Runway End Safety Areas, NPA 2010-012, is not exclusively EMAS systems (Engineered Materials Arresting Syst...

If the runway is extended, I doubt the 737 Max or 320 Neo could operate... the 737 Max will be 42,000lbs heavier than the urban CS100 and the 320 Neo is reported to be over 600kg heavier than the "classic". The PCN may also over-ride too. I'm sure the TPA would love to have WS and AC operate from th...

I fear this may be a case of history repeating itself. This reminds reminds me an awful lot of Wardair's expansion plans in the late '80s. I hate to say it but, I think Bean's assessment of the situation over on the AEForum is unfortunately the most likely scenario. I would expect no less from TheB...

To the family, friends and colleagues of the crew lost in Antarctica my heart goes out to you...

Just Curious, Bob, I did not know you in the flesh but your posts here on AvCanada reverberated like an old friend - I will miss you.

Try: Royal Aeronautical Society
And:Flight Safety Foundation

Gilles I commend your hard work and perseverance; thank you, you are a true professional.

Why wouldn't WJ just look at buying Porter then? It's not for sale. for now... best way to kill competition is to buy your competitor. Well that might be great in the short term, but as I recall the history doesn't support your opinion in the long run: PWA & Wardair --> Canadian --> Air Canada --> ...

rigpiggy wrote:Why wouldn't WJ just look at buying Porter then?

It's not for sale.

NavCanada was conducting flight checks for 08 today; yes 26 has an ILS with a 4.9deg g/s.

Christmas/New Years we fly direct between CYTZ and CYHZ; therefore our longest scheduled is Halifax back to Toronto - so far...

Each year I sum up, on a dedicated page in my log-book, the flying made. If I tally up all the hours and find a discrepancy, then I asterik the incorrect entry with a number and add that footnote to my dedicated summary page stating the reason. I initial the correction, and recalculate the running t...

Since I don't know you, let's just say that I hope you don't work for certain Alberta -based 704 operator. Time in the sky, helo, Cessna or Concorde... TC doesn't specify, they just mention flight time. LOL! No worries there JC, I'm not at Borek! Having said the above, I am not in the practice of o...

I believe this is a bit gray, and there is no specific guidance or circulars advising "flight time" restrictions, but I do not think you would violate your total flight if you flew privately on the side. The reason for my belief is that the cars only specifically state "flight crew members" in the a...

Have a great trip Panama Jack, no practical information for the flying end of seeing the falls as it was at least 24 years since I flew over and around to see it from the air. I was a young buck and in the seat next to my dad who rented the Cessna on that adventure, seeing it from the air was enough...