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- Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:21 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Renewal ADBs Coming Out - Check Them Carefully
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2011
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...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:18 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Renewal ADBs Coming Out - Check Them Carefully
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2011
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...
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 10:51 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Aircraft Registration Process on Import
- Replies: 7
- Views: 347
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...
- Mon Nov 13, 2023 5:00 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: another black eye for the industry
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4625
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...
- Sun Nov 12, 2023 9:28 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: another black eye for the industry
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4625
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...
- Mon Sep 18, 2023 6:10 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Diabetes paranoia - in desperate need of guidance
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2141
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...
- Tue Aug 01, 2023 6:51 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: New Minister of Transport
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2678
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...
- Sun Jun 04, 2023 9:57 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Importing a NON Airworthiness Aircraft
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1157
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 ...
- Fri Apr 07, 2023 7:03 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Half of all PT6 production now destined for sectioned engines.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1249
Re: Half of all PT6 production now destined for sectioned engines.
Combien de poisson's d'avril ont mordu l'appât ?
- Fri Mar 24, 2023 5:47 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Ontario to Alberta via a 172
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2064
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...
- Sat Jan 21, 2023 9:06 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Dealing with Civil Aviation Medicine
- Replies: 45
- Views: 10717
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...
- Sun Dec 18, 2022 10:50 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: $100K Catering bill for Canadian government plane
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2762
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.
Serious inflation afoot.
- 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: 1106
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.
- Wed Aug 24, 2022 5:42 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Conair loses fireboss pilot ok
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3211
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.
- 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...
- Mon May 23, 2022 7:45 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Missing plane Wawa
- Replies: 39
- Views: 10237
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.
- Wed May 18, 2022 8:23 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: R-44 Fatal Accident - Alberta
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7113
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...
- Tue May 17, 2022 8:42 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: R-44 Fatal Accident - Alberta
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7113
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.
The ones that can't handle it will understand why they should stick with day VFR - or get a TSB report for a tombstone.
- Fri May 06, 2022 7:06 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Cherokee 140 near Sioux Lookout
- Replies: 59
- Views: 12544
Re: Cherokee 140 near Sioux Lookout
Wouldn't surprise me if the pilots were asking for signatures in their logbooks.
- Tue Apr 26, 2022 9:35 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Missing plane Wawa
- Replies: 39
- Views: 10237
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...