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by RatherBeFlying
Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:21 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Renewal ADBs Coming Out - Check Them Carefully
Replies: 12
Views: 1360

Re: Renewal ADBs Coming Out - Check Them Carefully

I emailed my TC Regional Service Centre. Interestingly they said I'm still on the list to receive another ADB, even though I just got a new one. Even better, they emailed temporary license and medical with June expiry in pdf format so I only need to carry one ADB. So if stuff is missing from your ne...
by RatherBeFlying
Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:18 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Renewal ADBs Coming Out - Check Them Carefully
Replies: 12
Views: 1360

Renewal ADBs Coming Out - Check Them Carefully

Mine was expiring January 1; so, I sent in my renewal November. Because of supplier issues, TC issued an exemption extending ADBs until August. Good News: Renewal ADBs are coming out. Bad News: Validity period shortened four months by issue delay (common TC lackadaisical customer service) Recent rat...
by RatherBeFlying
Tue Jan 30, 2024 10:51 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Aircraft Registration Process on Import
Replies: 7
Views: 338

Re: Aircraft Registration Process on Import

The FAA faxes the deregistration to TC HQ in Ottawa. Your regional office won't be able to find it until such time some weeks later when a TC clerk bestirs him/her-self to dig out the deregistrations from who knows how many feet of curled up fax paper and keys them into their excuse for a computer s...
by RatherBeFlying
Mon Nov 13, 2023 5:00 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: another black eye for the industry
Replies: 26
Views: 4503

Re: another black eye for the industry

I suspect that the lap strap on a wheelchair is as strong as the lap strap on an airline seat, notwithstanding that aviation authorities will expend considerable bureaucrat hours/years? on the question. Its been crash tested to SAE J2249/ISO 10542 http://www.ezlock.net/safety-lab/ As with trains, th...
by RatherBeFlying
Sun Nov 12, 2023 9:28 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: another black eye for the industry
Replies: 26
Views: 4503

Re: another black eye for the industry

These people make a wheelchair locking system that can be fitted to accessible vans: http://www.ezlock.net/ For aircraft a version could be designed to fit into the seat track. Of course, the regular seat would have to go in the hold (where the wheelchair would have gone otherwise). Engineering woul...
by RatherBeFlying
Mon Sep 18, 2023 6:10 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Diabetes paranoia - in desperate need of guidance
Replies: 19
Views: 2117

Re: Diabetes paranoia - in desperate need of guidance

If there's any family history of diabetes, you really want to stop it before it happens. Your family doctor will want to test fasting blood sugar and A1C (Dr Google can tell you what levels are good or concerning). If you don't have to go on meds, you have nothing to report to TC. Weight control and...
by RatherBeFlying
Tue Aug 01, 2023 6:51 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: New Minister of Transport
Replies: 17
Views: 2664

Re: New Minister of Transport

Let's not forget that Lisa Raitt was Minister when Edmonton City Centre Airport tenants were expropriated with short notice. Oh yes, the province was also under a Conservative government. To rub salt in the wounds, Lisa mandated a gold plated public consultation process fortunately after the refugee...
by RatherBeFlying
Sun Jun 04, 2023 9:57 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Importing a NON Airworthiness Aircraft
Replies: 10
Views: 1154

Re: Importing a NON Airworthiness Aircraft

Do you really want to do this: Set up a US Trust and Delaware corporation to own the aircraft. Insure through the Delaware corporation. Get a US pilot license. Find a US airport close to your place with the local FSDO onboard with your plans. Most importantly, sign up with the EAA and find somebody ...
by RatherBeFlying
Fri Apr 07, 2023 7:03 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Half of all PT6 production now destined for sectioned engines.
Replies: 4
Views: 1234

Re: Half of all PT6 production now destined for sectioned engines.

Combien de poisson's d'avril ont mordu l'appât ?
by RatherBeFlying
Fri Mar 24, 2023 5:47 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Ontario to Alberta via a 172
Replies: 22
Views: 2028

Re: Ontario to Alberta via a 172

The Northeast corner of Lake Superior catches the Southwesterly flow across a couple hundred miles of lake. The air picks up lots of moisture that produces clouds, fog and rain when it meets the steep shore. I've seen two planes sitting out the weather - a float plane in Gargantua Bay and an agplane...
by RatherBeFlying
Sat Jan 21, 2023 9:06 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Dealing with Civil Aviation Medicine
Replies: 45
Views: 10345

Re: Dealing with Civil Aviation Medicine

Childhood conditions, such as asthma and ADHD, commonly resolve themselves by adulthood. Until TC requires reports from your pediatrician, don't ask mommy and daddy for help filling out your TC medical form. My GP spotted an elevated blood glucose level and sent me to the dietician. In the mean time...
by RatherBeFlying
Sun Dec 18, 2022 10:50 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: $100K Catering bill for Canadian government plane
Replies: 29
Views: 2739

Re: $100K Catering bill for Canadian government plane

When I was working for Wardair, employees were billed something like $25 for the quite decent meals back in the '80s.

Serious inflation afoot.
by RatherBeFlying
Mon Sep 12, 2022 4:55 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: CAMEs ‘Fit to Fly’ Standards for post surgery recovery after significant injury?
Replies: 7
Views: 1082

Re: CAMEs ‘Fit to Fly’ Standards for post surgery recovery after significant injury?

Poilievre in his victory speech last night pointed out that the government can't run a passport office. Same applies to TC Aviation Medicine.
by RatherBeFlying
Wed Aug 24, 2022 5:42 pm
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: Conair loses fireboss pilot ok
Replies: 13
Views: 3200

Re: Conair loses fireboss pilot ok

It's going to be a while before single engine firefighter aircraft crashes catch up to the multi engine toll.
by RatherBeFlying
Mon Jul 25, 2022 6:33 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Please Contract TC Administration to Rogers
Replies: 1
Views: 530

Please Contract TC Administration to Rogers

Dear Minister Alghabra, Rogers got its act back together in five days . Since the onset of the pandemic, the aviation community has been stuck with wait times exceeding five months for medical certificates, registration transfers, licensing and ratings. Please transfer Transport Canada administratio...
by RatherBeFlying
Mon May 23, 2022 7:45 am
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: Missing plane Wawa
Replies: 39
Views: 10202

Re: Missing plane Wawa

That's really high terrain, especially for Ontario. Serious lack of options for a forced landing. That stretch is one of the few places that the highway is pretty much the only option (not many wires crossing the road). I've seen an agplane parked by the road south of Agawa Bay waiting for weather.
by RatherBeFlying
Wed May 18, 2022 8:23 pm
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: R-44 Fatal Accident - Alberta
Replies: 29
Views: 7099

Re: R-44 Fatal Accident - Alberta

But you want to put a requirement on the night rating that's more onerous than that required for the instrument rating Going from point A to B under the hood is a very small subset of what has to be done to obtain an instrument rating. When you do lose visual reference in night VFR, it's instrument...
by RatherBeFlying
Tue May 17, 2022 8:42 pm
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: R-44 Fatal Accident - Alberta
Replies: 29
Views: 7099

Re: R-44 Fatal Accident - Alberta

For a night rating, pilots should be required to do a night cross country under the hood.

The ones that can't handle it will understand why they should stick with day VFR - or get a TSB report for a tombstone.
by RatherBeFlying
Fri May 06, 2022 7:06 pm
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: Cherokee 140 near Sioux Lookout
Replies: 59
Views: 12457

Re: Cherokee 140 near Sioux Lookout

Wouldn't surprise me if the pilots were asking for signatures in their logbooks.
by RatherBeFlying
Tue Apr 26, 2022 9:35 pm
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: Missing plane Wawa
Replies: 39
Views: 10202

Re: Missing plane Wawa

Lk Superior stays mostly open over the winter. The lake is bounded by high ground on the east and north coasts; so, any south westerly flow can pick up moisture that produces cloud over high ground, especially in low temperatures. I remember sitting at Smoky Point by my canoe watching a succession o...

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