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by Squaretail
Wed Feb 14, 2024 12:35 pm
Forum: Bush Flying & Specialty Air Service
Topic: Ferry piston aircrafts across Canada
Replies: 12
Views: 937

Re: Ferry piston aircrafts across Canada

I'm with BPF. Every ferry flight that I've done has been a pain. Planes almost always sell because they don't fly enough and planes that don't fly have maintenance issues. Now throw in crossing multiple weather systems, time constraints and you have a recipe for a very difficult trip. But every fer...
by Squaretail
Tue Feb 13, 2024 5:00 pm
Forum: Bush Flying & Specialty Air Service
Topic: Ferry piston aircrafts across Canada
Replies: 12
Views: 937

Re: Ferry piston aircrafts across Canada

Risk is dependent, how long has the a/c been sitting, was it well maintained. WX is it's own risk, you have to be willing to say it's not happening today whether it's IFR with no suitable alternate in rate or VFR through the passes. 200 hour brand new CPL’s are going to pretty much by definition no...
by Squaretail
Wed Jan 17, 2024 4:05 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Doctors in Alberta for an FAA Medical
Replies: 6
Views: 997

Re: Doctors in Alberta for an FAA Medical

rigpiggy wrote: Sat Apr 15, 2023 9:39 am The guy in okotoks is the one I use. Ex flight surgeon
Trying to book this and found out Dr. James in Okotoks retired. His replacement in Okotoks still does TC medicals, but not FAA ones.
by Squaretail
Sun Nov 26, 2023 12:56 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Hand flying Cirrus
Replies: 32
Views: 3385

Re: Hand flying Cirrus

sorry to go off topic but whats the nightmare problem with the engine mounting on an early 210? i haven't heard of that in my decade of owning one, have i just been lucky? All the 210s, and the 205 and early 206s the engine is mounted on the cantilever box which doubles as the housing for the nosew...
by Squaretail
Thu Nov 23, 2023 1:47 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Hand flying Cirrus
Replies: 32
Views: 3385

Re: Hand flying Cirrus

My advice would be if you have a nice 182, stick with that. While the 210 and Cirrus are nice planes, for the price of the Cirrus or the extra costs of the 210 you can put a lot of gas through a 182. 210s right now aren't holding their value, so expect to take a dive on resale if that's a concern. N...
by Squaretail
Sat Oct 21, 2023 10:32 am
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: Fatal helicopter crash Prince George
Replies: 15
Views: 3099

Re: Fatal helicopter crash Prince George

Lost Torque Event?

Not rotorhead, just guessing.
by Squaretail
Sun Oct 15, 2023 2:14 pm
Forum: Bush Flying & Specialty Air Service
Topic: Mountain Flying with critical engine failure.
Replies: 6
Views: 1606

Re: Mountain Flying with critical engine failure.

archstantun wrote: Sat Oct 07, 2023 8:43 am

The guy had his ATPL as well with something like 2000 hours. He wasn't a noob.
Means nothing. ATPL is a piece of paper. No two pilots with equivalent hours are the same. Some will be awesome, some won't. Some will have learned something in that 2000 hours, others won't.
by Squaretail
Fri Oct 06, 2023 9:14 am
Forum: Employment Forum
Topic: Tons of applications, underwhelmed by response
Replies: 15
Views: 3357

Re: Tons of applications, underwhelmed by response

Do what most of the kids are doing now, go do a season of survey. Lots of 172s running around the country, usually based out of somewhere that's name doesn't begin with Fort or end with Lake, that could be considered civilized. Most do a season or two and get up to that magic 1000 hours which makes ...
by Squaretail
Thu Sep 07, 2023 9:07 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Missing Aircraft in BC
Replies: 11
Views: 1804

Re: Missing Aircraft in BC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missing_aircraft

Lists 3 during that time period, though it is definitely not comprehensive.

Aviation Safety Network claims that 100 aircraft have went missing and never found globally since 1948, so the 40 alone in BC is probably an over-estimation.
by Squaretail
Fri Aug 25, 2023 7:13 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Stop captive advertising
Replies: 13
Views: 963

Re: Stop captive advertising

That you continue to use this website tells me your capacity for tolerating ads in your face is way higher than your initial post would indicate.
by Squaretail
Thu Aug 10, 2023 6:07 pm
Forum: Flight Training
Topic: The Wrong Way to Teach Force Landings
Replies: 37
Views: 1829

Re: The Wrong Way to Teach Force Landings

I don't mean to say, but BPF don't you work for the regulator? If you feel FTUs aren't up to snuff, don't you have the power to do something about it? Personally I disagree with your assessment of the cause check. In my experience, unless you are into more complex types, power losses in little airpl...
by Squaretail
Wed Aug 09, 2023 6:41 pm
Forum: Flight Training
Topic: The Wrong Way to Teach Force Landings
Replies: 37
Views: 1829

Re: The Wrong Way to Teach Force Landings

While there may be type specific likely causes to be discussed, technique wise, there isn't any practice material. If one feels that students should be well versed in various different levels of power loss, you should also be worried about losses with different flap configurations, weights and bala...
by Squaretail
Wed Aug 09, 2023 2:47 pm
Forum: Flight Training
Topic: The Wrong Way to Teach Force Landings
Replies: 37
Views: 1829

Re: The Wrong Way to Teach Force Landings

There is nothing that says training has to end after receiving your PPL though.
Of course, but that's usually type specific stuff though. Well beyond the realm of the PPL flight test and associated training which seems to be BPF's beef.
by Squaretail
Wed Aug 09, 2023 2:45 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: GA Pilots: Make your voices heard. Block Function
Replies: 92
Views: 4366

Re: GA Pilots: Make your voices heard. Block Function

Right now there are 5300 people on this site. 5200 are unregistered guests. 100 registered posters out of 5300 are willing to engage, comment, contribute. On the entire site. Does that sound healthy to anyone? Most people visit AvCanada for the job ads. If you require registration to see the job ad...
by Squaretail
Wed Aug 09, 2023 2:32 pm
Forum: Flight Training
Topic: The Wrong Way to Teach Force Landings
Replies: 37
Views: 1829

Re: The Wrong Way to Teach Force Landings

3) For every actual total engine failure there are probably 3 partial engine failures, yet this possibility is almost never mentioned in flight training yet alone actually practiced. It is actually a more difficult scenario as there will be lots of ambiguity as to what is happening and what is the ...
by Squaretail
Mon Aug 07, 2023 1:21 am
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: piper pa32 crashed last night near kananaskis village
Replies: 90
Views: 18430

Re: piper pa32 crashed last night near kananaskis village

Any idea of Pilot experience level? I don’t know, but listening to the audio....rather tentative and requested a tailwind takeoff. Having listened to it, my impression about the requesting the tailwind take off was a matter of thinking they would save a minute amount of time by not taxiing as far, ...
by Squaretail
Mon Aug 07, 2023 1:13 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: A lifetime of learning when to fly....
Replies: 46
Views: 3811

Re: A lifetime of learning when to fly....

The doctor/lawyer/businessman trope can be attributed to the careers that afford them the money to get themselves into trouble. Well we don't talk about poor folks doing stupid things in airplanes, because poor folks can't afford airplanes. So folks who own airplanes tend to be either a) smart succ...
by Squaretail
Sat Aug 05, 2023 12:13 pm
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: piper pa32 crashed last night near kananaskis village
Replies: 90
Views: 18430

Re: piper pa32 crashed last night near kananaskis village

I am wondering in cases like this if the pilot was really confident or if he was on the fence about going. Something that stands out to me is that a definite factor in his risk assessment would be the fact that it was 5 other guys he was hauling, none of whom seem to be of perhaps an older and more...
by Squaretail
Tue Aug 01, 2023 6:56 am
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: piper pa32 crashed last night near kananaskis village
Replies: 90
Views: 18430

Re: piper pa32 crashed last night near kananaskis village

Young man leaves behind an expecting wife. He has only owned the aircraft since June. I feel for the families of all involved. https://www.gofundme.com/f/willard-kirk-mealey Young guy. Hard to imagine he had a ton of experience. You'd think with wife expecting it would change your risk assessment p...
by Squaretail
Sat Jul 29, 2023 12:18 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Can you take the PPL written before flight training
Replies: 13
Views: 1020

Re: Can you take the PPL written before flight training

While I applaud the desire to get ahead, I always recommend that people get their medical, and at least do a flight or two before you do too much worrying about written tests. Although unusual, it wouldn't be the first time someone dove in, then did one flight and realized it wasn't for them. Get t...

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