Having owned, abused, lost and twisted all types over the past 40 or so years - from Beer store 9.99 specials to Maui Jims and everything in between (no, never owned Louis Vuitton or Gucci or Prada, but I did wear some traditional yellow-lense cat-eye Vuarnets back in the 80's... we just had to!...)...

Had he come from the opposite direction, he could have taken then entire dragstrip clubhouse, garages, crews and spectators... This clip, unfortunately, has tremendous educational value. Reminds me of the B52 airshow crash where the pilot was also feared by crewmates and ended up killing a bunch of ...

The following statement was posted in the forum at "Les Ailes Québécoises" about the C-185 crash at Mont Laurier: C-FFWD a écrit:Selon les informations officielles que j'ai obtenu: 1- Il n'y aura pas de rapport d'accident par le BST. 2- La cause de l'accident aurait été un recul de siège du pilote p...

North Shore wrote:Difficult to comment without getting into Quebec-bashing, but I'll forge ahead..

North Shore you give a poor example as a moderator. Nuf said.

I would spend on such safety before spending a billion $ on light rail. Well, I'd spend it on the light rail in a heartbeat. It would take cars and buses off the road which will reduce fatalities every year, as opposed to your option which might prevent one large accident like this every couple dec...

Of course, bus routes should not cross busy railroad tracks on a daily basis. Permanent fix can only be an underpass for bus traffic. This accident was essentially a RUNWAY INCURSION. Do you have any idea how much it would cost to implement this? Even in Ottawa, which doesn't have that many grade c...

There must be a mods convention or they are on a bike rallye as they have locked threads for a lot less shyte...

From all reports, the rail issues seem to have been ok. Sadly, the family of the bus driver is doing the best PR campaign it can to protect his name and deflect blame. The brakes on the bus likely did not fail as the driver would have noticed before passengers started to scream a him (to stop). Ther...

Beefitarian wrote:I don't think sam's intentionally trying to be malicious.

Disagree totally beef, sorry. His inference to the Battle of the Plains of Abraham was blatantly obvious and malicious, and was obviously unrelated to aviation. TPC said it best, stie.

Thank you CD. Anyone knows how the survival suits used compare to others such as the famously thick, lined and sealed poopysuits used by SeaKing crews?

It bothers me that they died of hypothermia after only an hour in survival suits. Are the suits adequate? Can they be closed up in the water if comfort requires keeping them unzipped in the cockpit? Will they still do the job if some water got in before they were zipped up? I must have missed a pos...

Me,i know nothing,meh. I do hope they put a little bit more effort into this investigation,than they did with some of the previous sad and rather pathetic attempts at previous sideshows. It is not really a safety investigation if all they do is look for ways to blame the pilots. TSB investigators a...

not recent to be sure but good basic advice on floatplane ops

http://tinyurl.com/anqn6c7

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Love it... of course I would...

Quand je faisais mes permis j'ai amener beaucoup de gens faire des tours d'avion...surprise...je suis encore en vie. Comme RenegadeAV8R as dit, il y aucun danger a faire ca. On l'a tous fait, moi y compris, et les étudiants le font encore. Anyway, je suis d'avis que notre "psyche", ou notre "tête",...

Il n'y a aucun danger associé avec le fait que des passagers "payaient le gas". True enough, mais il y avait un danger associé avec le fait qu'elle avait des passagers, trois hommes, qui ajoutent du poids, des pressions, un itinéraire fasconné à leurs désirs (la fromagerie...), etc. Mon argument es...

Bon bein, la leçon à tirer est pas évidente pour Joe public comme ces mecs du gymnase... Comment éduquer les gens qui ne sont pas rattachés à l'aéronautique du danger que représente les pilotes privés qui cherchent des suckers pour "payer le gaz?"... Ouch,... tough one...

Changes in Latitudes wrote:...but every last one of them think they're they one to fill Leonardo Dicaprio's shoes. ...Same goes with aviation...

Well looking on the bright side, the odds of making it as an airline pilot are a heck of a lot better than filling DiCaprio's shoes..!

Don't know what the PRK procedure is, but I am quite sure laser surgery is quite safe these days. There is an immense sense of pride and satisfaction to be a CF pilot, and I can sense you already know this and you want this. You probably know as wel that it is an officer job first, and a pilot job i...

Many people I know - especially the renters I deal with have much more expensive things they do, yet always complain that they don't have money to fly as much as they would like. Two differnt fellows one who showed up in his Ferrari, the other in his BMW both told me about how much they spent on th...

The Aussie pilot was extremely lucky... it's only a matter of time.... a Red Bull pilot will crash and die before too long... let's hope it's not going to be the Canadian

mr.jinks wrote:Used to be used a lot to ferry Adrianne Clarkson around on personal time.

wrong department.... Clarkson was flying with Col Russ Williams!

Bad, quite bad.