What causes a float to dart off in one direction like that? It didn't seem like that bad of a touchdown to me. This makes float flying look incredibly risky.

TSB officials are reporting evidence suggests an in-flight break up. If the Turbo Commander has a known history of this it shouldn't be used for some of the roughest flying possible.

Because the objective is to gain command experience. I know you guys think you can just switch seats and be good to go but it's a different ballgame. Being able to fly the plane is the easy part. It's the decision making that is hard.

AC will never run out of applicants and try to get LMIA. Even in a worst case scenario, the applicants will just get worse as pilots leave other carriers. AC knows this, thats why they will always have the leverage that they do to keep the starting FO pay close to the bottom of the barrel. They alr...

Inflight break up is everyone's worst nightmare. probably not much more than 1000 agl when directing the tanker run It's actually much less not more. Is it possible the aircraft hit a single tree that was significantly taller than the surrounding trees? I believe they call it a "snag" or something l...

What's the next step? How do you get out of a union if the government won't let you? Just keep voting down every TA?

Getting a ramp position was highly difficult in my day and was a 1.5-2 year stint. Things could be worse.

Very excellent advice. I was still selling myself through every email I had with the HR people while they were setting up medical appointment or whatever. Mention something interesting or exciting about the flying you did on the day you are replying to them. Use every little opportunity you can to s...

Quit your airline job to go fly a Beech to qualify for a better airline job? What an industry. And people wonder why that AC guy forged his ATPL. He was probably 0.1 hours short in some pointless category like night xc PIC and facing having to pay for it. Sounds like a great way to improve yourself...

My condolences to the families of the deceased and their colleagues at Buffalo. They do the most dangerous job in Canadian aviation and deserve a lot of respect for it.

I wish the best for the Captain's recovery.
Safety starts with two.

It goes both ways. Some of my connections have tried to sabotage my career.

You could do this one weird trick where you get the experience the regulations are trying to ensure by operating a two crew aircraft as a captain.

I wish you all the best luck with your reconsideration of the reconsideration and reconsideration review.

Shouldn't you correct an employee for each individual violation instead of saving them up until the total violations warrant extreme measures?

That's why there needs to be more evidence. To end someone's career you need be 100% sure not just pretty sure. In a criminal case he never would be found guilty. I wonder if he's going to sue Sunwing.

I think it's important to note they didn't directly send the email to the manager who was offended. Fried chicken and watermelon is one of my favorite meals so it's disturbing that my race could cost me my career if another person catches wind that I ordered it. It's actually in my fridge right now....

Is ALPA Canada planning to engage with the government over these sweeping changes to labour law — including the right to strike? This seems like exactly the kind of thing we pay union dues for them to advocate for us. Maybe they have already and are working on communicating that to us? Maybe they'r...

You laugh but not worrying about being debanked means one less thing they can threaten you with to force you back to work.

I'm actually thinking of cashing out my bank account before next negotiations heat up. Just in case.

This will probably end with European style violence. Make sure you cash out your bank accounts before negotiations.

Amazing Airbus gets away with their ridiculous performance.

The federal government is currently working very quickly to strengthen labour laws so no federally regulated employees will be able to strike again. It will take a general strike by all affected unions at the same time for any chance to reverse this. Any ideas please post here for consideration. Al...

I believe that ALPA has adjusted policy on claiming alcohol as an expense and this may be a partial workaround

Again with the alcohol. $2000 a month is quite the party.

I'm surprised they aren't safety wired.