That Beaver crashed hard.
That damage isn’t from a dug float or a cartwheel.
Amazing there weren’t any fatalities.
Hope everyone makes a full recovery.
Will be a long road for some for sure.

Drunk boat captain or not, the boat was going in a straight line at a steady speed and it should have been a non-issue for the Beaver to avoid the collision.

I don’t think that’s correct. I think as long as a floatplane’s floats are touching the water, it’s considered a powered boat. And when two powered boats are on a collision course, the boat to the starboard has right of way. That power boat technically had the right of way over the departing Beaver.

Like I mentioned in my previous posts, if he saw him during the slide, it should have been a relatively straight forward 5 degree step turn to the right to continue his take off slide behind the boat. Only he knows why he chose to go in that direction at that time? But yes, certainly looks avoidable.

It’s on the CBC BC website.

Looks like he sees him and is trying to yard it off the water, which naturally digs the heels into the water which of course only slows a floatplane’s ability to plane and get airborne.

You mentioned distracted driving being illegal and you can get a big fine sitting at a light glancing at your phone. Seemed like you were referring to a phone? Anyways… Distraction can be a million and one different things. Sneezing allergy attack. A wasp buzzing in front of your face. A passenger k...

Yeah, I wasn’t thinking distracted like pilot on his phone distracted. He was in a critical take off phase, he wasn’t on his phone! Let’s give HA some credit. But sounds like he had 5 passengers onboard, and he would have had the biggest passenger sitting up front. People love to video everything in...

There’s a better video shot from Brockton Point that’s circulating that gives a closer up better angle of the collision. It’s really tough to watch. Pilot was either totally distracted onboard with something else going on, or just didn’t have the experience to pull back the power a bit and steer beh...

I’ve taken off out of the harbour a thousand times and transient boats motoring through the take off zone is a daily occurrence, especially in the Summertime. You really have to have your head on a swivel and expect the unexpected. I don’t know what was going on in the flight deck, but even if the p...

Many of the miserable are divorced too. And quick to blame their failed relationships on AIDS.

Me thinks most of the time, aviation had/has very little to do with their failed relationships.

THE big mistake I see so many young adults make, is expecting that their jobs will bring them happiness. WORK is a 4 letter word. Anyone who tells you that they LOVE their job needs to get a life. The best case scenario is a job that fulfils a part of you, and provides the means to actually enjoy an...

Some work days are 6 hours long, some are 12 hours long. It all evens out in the end. The joke in my family is I go to work to relax. My wife calls a 4 day pairing a 3-day hotel vacation!

14 days a month is 3-4 pairings. So probably 10-12 of those days include hotels out of town. I bid for weekends off to coincide with my kids elementary school schedules and I’m home 90% of the weekends a year.

As an “older”’guy looking back on 25 years in the industry, with another 15-20 ahead of me, I’ve seen a few things. I’ve flown in the bush, had an extended float career, and have been on the airline side of things now for close to 10 years. One thing that is absolutely 100% in your control is your a...

There’s not a lot of difference between a 1500 hour instructor and a 250 hour wonder in the flight deck of a Q-400. They both face a very steep learning curve. Multi-engine, multi-crew, 705 world, SOP’s, FMS’s, winter ops, busy international airports like YYZ and Boston, de-icing, etc… But Encore ha...

If the boat hit the Beaver on the front left side, then it sounds like the Beaver was the stand-on vessel and had the right of way.

Regardless, glad nobody was hurt.

The OP might want to edit the title. The Beaver did not flip on landing. The Beaver collided while sliding out on the step after landing, with a boat that was travelling at a high rate of speed across the channel. Not sure who was technically at fault, as I don’t know what direction the boat was tra...

I fly for a small corporate flight department where none of us are worried about lay off notices. Bold statement TPC. That’s exactly what the Suncor Flight Department pilots were saying right up until the day they got their lay off notices. Nobody is immune in this global downturn. Here’s hoping fo...

Some good close up views of buddy’s face and body in that video. This industry is so small, I’m sure someone will recognize him before too long and he will be nabbed. You don’t just luck out and randomly start a Beaver. Hopefully the fashion police ad an extra charge to his rap sheet too. Who wears ...

Bullshit. That may be the case for a few, but it all comes down to the company being reactive and not proactive. They got themselves into a position that they realized and started to maneuver out of last year. There are a lot of new low-time pilots that need to fly for two years to gain the experie...

I’m not into hysteria, but this thing is just ramping up. SARS lasted about 6 months. About 8,000 were infected. About 800 people died. People with SARS only spread the virus when they showed symptoms. It spread to a little over 24 different countries. The financial impact on the Global economy was ...

And the sad reason why many of these Encore FO’s can’t upgrade to the left seat at Encore is because they’ve been too lazy to write their A’s! True story.

Let me put it this way: Pilot ‘A’ getting hired at Encore with 250 hours fresh out of college at the age of 23. Pilot ‘B’ getting hired at Westjet, a month later, with 5000 hours of industry experience at the age of 35. But somehow pilot A will be senior to pilot B. Just does not make sense. You kn...

DanWEC wrote: ↑Fri Nov 29, 2019 4:57 pm You do know you won't get her back right?

LOL!!!

If you have a legitimate complaint about being mistreated going through security, then Contact: Sandra Maria Alvarez Supervisor, Client Satisfaction Superviseure, Satisfaction des clients Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA)/ Administration canadienne de la sûreté du transport aérien (A...