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- Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:25 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Metro 3 ( dangerous as they say it is )
- Replies: 56
- Views: 6127
Re: Metro 3 ( dangerous as they say it is )
Metros are shitty planes operated by shitty companies in shitty conditions with shitty pilots. Bit of an insult to say shitty pilots. Maybe pilots with shitty training due to working for shitty companies and a lack of good Metro sims. I mean to say that they lack experience. What does a typical Met...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:30 pm
- Forum: Around the Camp Fire
- Topic: A crash I witnessed early in my career and some lessons learned.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1906
Re: A crash I witnessed early in my career and some lessons learned.
That was a very touching story, thank you for taking the time to share it. I’ve lost a few friends over the years to this industry, but my experiences were always second hand: a phone call I had hoped to never receive, or being shocked to stumble across the news of a crash and slowly piecing togethe...
- Wed Aug 30, 2023 10:13 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: BRAVO — For a job never really done.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1572
Re: BRAVO — For a job never really done.
Well said and totally correct. Going way back several decades ago and my PBY-5A aka Canso days, 8000lbs of water, trying to be strategic where to unload. The early morning departures, flames jumping across tree tops. One engine failure, other precautionary shutdowns, a dump door stuck down . A very...
- Wed Aug 09, 2023 11:03 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: GA Pilots: Make your voices heard. Block Function
- Replies: 92
- Views: 4422
Re: GA Pilots: Make your voices heard. Block Function
I’ll add in my $0.02: i started browsing and following avcanada in the late 2000’s as I was starting my PPL. I’ve found the opinions expressed on this site (some dating back to old threads that have been buried long ago - but still very searchable!) to be invaluable in shaping my idea of how to best...
- Wed Aug 09, 2023 8:20 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: GA Pilots: Make your voices heard. Block Function
- Replies: 92
- Views: 4422
Re: GA Pilots: Make your voices heard. Block Function
Rookie How I experience this forum and how you do seems to be quite different. If I had any beefs it is that it can be a bit boring, especially the interminable inside baseball discussion on the minutia around airline collective agreements. I think of Avcanada as like being at the company Christmas...
- Sat Jul 22, 2023 5:58 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Cessna 441 hard landing
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3385
Re: Cessna 441 hard landing
Looks to me like they got too slow and stalled it in. People do that. Happened at the local airfield where I fly yesterday. Faulty airspeed indicator blamed. Hard landing inspection done and a test flight flown. Airspeed indicator was just fine. A bit more ancillary info I am holding back on but th...
- Sun Mar 05, 2023 9:49 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Aircraft disabled on ylw runway ...
- Replies: 77
- Views: 7198
Re: Aircraft disabled on ylw runway ...
No weather to cause a missed? That wind can easily give moderate turbulence on the approach. A million other things outside of the pilot's control can cause a missed, unstable approach, aircraft or vehicle on the runway, birds... point is, in a 705 aircraft you need to brief and be ready for every ...
- Sat Feb 25, 2023 1:19 pm
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Calgary Flight Training
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3830
Re: Calgary Flight Training
More questions: What class instructor would you get? Class 1 or 2 is ideal. Avoid Class 4. Can you stay with the same instructor for most of the training? Switching instructors is a pain and usually ends up costing you more. Details on airplanes and simulators they have. What kind. How many. Age. A...
- Fri Feb 24, 2023 4:01 pm
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Calgary Flight Training
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3830
Re: Calgary Flight Training
A flight school should be charging you for a flight once you return from said flight. Ie “you’ve flown 1.4 hrs, and 0.3 ground briefing time with the instructor, your total today is $X.” Quite commonly practiced to have a credit card on file, but asking for cash up front for services not yet rendere...
- Fri Feb 24, 2023 3:09 pm
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Calgary Flight Training
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3830
Re: Calgary Flight Training
As previously mentioned: absolutely stay away from paying up front. I have seen this scenario play out for the worse so many times. CFC and SATC are just fine. MRU is fine too, however it is quite expensive and I’d argue that an aviation diploma is a bit of a waste. The college program is good if yo...
- Sun Feb 19, 2023 10:23 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Sleep Apnea
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2936
Re: Sleep Apnea
That’s called a Mandibular Advancement Device. Unfortunately for pilots, TC doesn’t consider MAD a replacement for CPAP.
- Mon Feb 13, 2023 7:28 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Trudeau takes out a UFO
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2445
Re: Trudeau takes out a UFO
Jesus H Christ… here we go
- Mon Nov 07, 2022 8:32 pm
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Choosing the right college program.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 996
Re: Choosing the right college program.
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.Havinash4768 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 07, 2022 7:20 pm And by the way are you guys actually pilots? if so where do you work lol.
- Fri Sep 30, 2022 3:53 am
- Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
- Topic: De Havilland Canada in Calgary News
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4088
Re: De Havilland Canada in Calgary News
Is this Viking building aeroplanes under the name DeHavilland, or is this something that came from Bombardier carrying the name on? Either way it's great news. I think. It's Viking. Hopefully they don't mess up the ducks as bad as they did with the 400 series Can you expand on this for the ignorant?
- Tue Aug 16, 2022 3:53 pm
- Forum: Employment Forum
- Topic: Is it common to get hired with lapsed IFR for jobs that require PPC?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1238
Re: Is it common to get hired with lapsed IFR for jobs that require PPC?
I would hate to be passed over during the interview process for a job I really wanted because I didn’t bother to be current.
- Mon Aug 01, 2022 8:24 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: FTDT App for Canada
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1234
Re: FTDT App for Canada
This would be helpful. The new regs are messy.
- Sun Jul 31, 2022 1:24 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Best family life jobs
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3548
Re: Best family life jobs
Morningstar in YYZ offers Monday to Friday FedEx cargo flying on the Caravan, and it sounds like QOL is decent on the 757 as well. From my experience corporate aviation can be a good match on QOL IF you find the right airplane with little or no charter and a good owner, or something with a rotating...
- Sun Jul 24, 2022 2:28 pm
- Forum: Covid
- Topic: Europe explains the reason for airport chaos
- Replies: 60
- Views: 6057
Re: Europe explains the reason for airport chaos
OP was too fond of lead paint as a kid.
- Sun Jul 24, 2022 7:00 am
- Forum: Covid
- Topic: Europe explains the reason for airport chaos
- Replies: 60
- Views: 6057
Re: Europe explains the reason for airport chaos
Intercom chimes in the cockpit: “Hey it’s the in-charge… there’s some guy freaking out back here saying both engines are failed because the Illuminati control the fuelers and they’ve given us tomato juice instead of Jet-A. He keeps referring to himself in the third person as “Jerry Don Quixote” and ...
- Fri Jul 22, 2022 8:08 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: They are dropping like flies.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1831
Re: They are dropping like flies.
Man dies on the other side of the planet.
JerryDonThomasRig: tHe vAcCiNe!
JerryDonThomasRig: tHe vAcCiNe!