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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

That’s called a Mandibular Advancement Device. Unfortunately for pilots, TC doesn’t consider MAD a replacement for CPAP.

Jesus H Christ… here we go

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.

Sir, this is a Wendy’s.

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?

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.

This would be helpful. The new regs are messy.

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...

OP was too fond of lead paint as a kid.

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 ...

Man dies on the other side of the planet.

JerryDonThomasRig: tHe vAcCiNe!