That's quite the story.
Thank you for taking the time to post the link.

What I don't understand is why the rescuers didn't go to the other side of the fuselage, where there is a half door in the side of the fuselage for use in egressing the cockpit when the airplane is inverted

I like the legality of filing your destination as your alternate, too.
It has been done.

My career was not typical and therefore neither is my experience on this subject. I was hired directly onto a DC-8 at age twenty two with less-than 275 hours TT, so very little slush and snow without toe rubbers or galoshes to protect my shoes. I tried several different brands of shoes for the ensui...

Wow.
That certainly seems a labour-intensive way of doing it.

Not wishing to appear pedantic but I've got to ask if it is actually a "paint" job.
Wouldn't it be more likely to be a vinyl appliqué?

The Aviation Museum at the Langley Municipal Airport is a Shell distributor.
You can buy individual tubes of grease right off the rack in the gift shop.

I thought that it was only necessary to lead with the aft engine during power-up on takeoff.
Never heard of starting the front engine first. Maybe it's to enhance cooling of the rear engine?

And last night I heard the best-ever transmission from a Tower controller. Airframe and I were chugging around finishing off his Night Rating and Tower misunderstood our desired direction to flight after a touch-and-go, resulting in a long and complicated clearance. Resolving this took several back-...

I don't see any egg there at all and you are indeed right. The scenario I heard of was a pilot filed a flight plan to an airport where the forecast at the ETA was below alternate limits for that airport. In a slow and short-ranged airplane, flying in a huge country with few airports, there wasn't an...

Not quite and I apologize for the poorly-worded question.
What I meant to ask was could we file a flight plan to Airport Y and also list Airport Y as our alternate for the same flight?

A hypothetical ( or maybe not) question: can you also specify your destination as your alternate?

Brings memories off how Russia decommissioned their ICBM's under the SALT agreement. They dug a big trench, lay the missile down so its tail was angled up and then lit it off, the result looking quite similar to this video. I've often wondered how that was possible if it was liquid fueled as the tan...

As a DC-9F/O landing in Sydney one cold day, I saw it when it was awaiting repair, sheltered partly under tarps and resting on wooden cribs, the main gear pushed back up into the flaps and damage to the nose gear. I remember thinking that it would take a lot of manpower and money to ever get it back...

That would assume that they actually might be literate...

My guess would be the difference in the altitudes has to do with the different points where the missed-approach procedure would commence and the different distances from obstacles. If the ILS let one descend until the typical 200 feet AGL, then the aircraft would be closer to an obstacle than an air...

It would appear that the Dalton E-6B only outshines shines the CX-2 at two tasks: true altitude solutions and this technique: on the wind side, put in the dots for the forecast winds at the available altitudes, circle each dot and put the altitude next it (3,6,9,etc.), then turn the disc until the P...

This brings to mind a funny tale about two pilots in a T-bag flying at altitude at night. The GIB went to adjust his seat vertically but grabbed the wrong handle and inflated his life raft instead. It inflated rapidly, filling the rear pit and squeezing him against his harness so hard that he couldn...

I thought that was the second function of the battery in the circuit( really, once the alternator is online and it can sense bus voltage, do we really need the battery except as backup?), to absorb and dampen spikes in the system. There's a reason they're called "accumulators" as they serve the same...

1955 or 56: I was 5-6 years old and my father held me as I stood on the back edge of the centre pedestal of an RCAF North Star, plowing its way high over the frozen Prairies between Winnipeg and Edmonton. One of the pilots put his headphones on me, I remember the yellow, chamois ear pads with black ...

No one has mentioned the "black magic" that happens inside the crankcase-breather lines, why they should run uphill after exiting the engine before being routed down to exit at a spot that is quite specific, why they shouldn't be insulated for the first bit but should near the end. All of these char...

The "ashless" description is interesting. It turns out that-due to the larger clearances and tolerances in the cylinders of air-cooled engines- more lubricating oil will make it into the upper cylinder and become part of the combustion events taking place there, than would in a liquid-cooled engine....

If you mean that having a staff PE who has other positions or interests in the particular FTU that could possibly lead to training to this specific individual's predilections then-yes-I could see how it could become a "puppy mill" without sufficient oversight. However, in this case and most-likely i...

Hey: how come those Pitts wheels are on the bottom?
I thought they were only like that a brief moment before touchdown...

Several years back, I was giving dual on a very-well kept Cessna 170 with the original gear and tyres. Despite excellent visibility over the nose on landing, upon touching down in a perfect attitude, it would consistently charge off to the same side. Some searching online revealed the troubleshootin...