From the Sunwing MEC, May 28th 2025 ... Last Sunwing Flight Today marks the sad day of Sunwing Airline’s last commercial flight. After that, the call sign will be used one last time on a lease return flight to Europe. It’s an inglorious end to a glorious airline. It certainly is the end of a great r...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british- ... -1.7505377

Anyone have anymore insight into this problem ? Lack of pilots ?

Any stats on how many pilots are retiring before 65 ? Average retirement age ? How many die before age 65 ?

Ah yes the dreaded Arctic low level inversion eddies. I can't remember how many times I almost bought the farm after encountering the sudden 1 knot airspeed loss on departure.

A year later and the identity of the Captain has still not been released or reported. Why ? Someone on this forum must know.

With the Dash's Ops spec, if the runway has CL lights, 50%, otherwise it's 75%. As for RNAV's it's 50%. Runway 07 at YOW does not have high-intensity runway centreline lighting, so you need 1600 RVR to shoot the CAT-I ILS but only 1200 RVR for the RNAV (GNSS) Z LPV. I'm not sure I see the logic in ...

Listening to LiveATC this morning with the fog in YOW. Dash Port Q400s were landing off the RNAV-Z to runway 07 when the reported RVR was 1200. There was also a Porter E295 that said they needed 1600 RVR for the ILS, which I thought was the standard OP SPEC RVR minimum in Canada on a CAT-I ILS. So I...

Looks like the B737-800F Chrono was using was returned to Kelowna Flightcraft, last cargo flight was on December 2nd between YFB-YWG. That route now being operated by Cargojet B757's.

https://www.ch-aviation.com/news/147349 ... s-b737-800

Not very likely short of massive damage to the aircraft and systems. 1 bad wheel sensor will mess up 1 wheel - but will not affect the other 7. The braking system has 3 different systems...Normal, alternate, and reserve. with separate components. In reality there is no real single point failure for...

How close to tdz/short final is this tower’s 050/7 anemometer reading Timeline on the LiveATC 0900 UTC Archive 09:24:40 Tower - "wind 040 at 7 knots" 09:26:01 Tower - "wind 050 at 7 knots" 09:27:04 Tower - "Cargojet is 4.0nm final" 09:27:24 Tower - "wind 060 at 5 knots" 09:27:44 Tower - "Cargojet i...

every picture of the accident I've seen has reversers and spoilers stowed. In this video starting at 9:31 there is a good head on view of the aircraft. You can see one outboard spoiler on each wing appears to have remained extended. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rgPiV4WxrI Presumably the hydraul...

You're not calling for FLAP 20+ on the STAR. And I'll ask again, how does CJT get their performance data for an abnormal landing? QRH? ACARS? It's been a few years but it was common when landing 08L off that STAR for ATC to slam dunk you high to final when traffic was light. A lot of pilots would s...

I don't think i would trust those numbers. I highly doubt a Boeing 767 - with any flaps - could stay airborne and flying below 120 kts I'm skeptical as well but as I mentioned earlier there is a video that pans from the threshold to the aircraft that appears to show the main tire tracks start diggi...

then requested direct the IF for a 80 degree intercept (which they blew through). They didn't blow through the final, they requested direct to EMKAM when they were already south of the LOC on a radar vector heading of 050. It looks like they intercepted and then maintained the LOC with no deviation...

How accurate is ADSB data close to the ground? As a comparison here is a Westjet Boeing 737-800 landing on the same runway 1:20 prior 08:10:24, 325 feet, 133 knots, 0.76 nm (to the threshold) 08:10:30, 250 feet, 133 knots, 0.53 nm 08:10:39, 150 feet, 134 knots, 0.15 nm 08:10:49, 25 feet, 139 knots,...

ADSB data shows it departing the runway at over 100 knots. You don't go nearly 2000 feet off the runway at 50 knots. This is the ADSB Data I'm seeing. (FlightRadar24, Google Earth) Time, Altitude, Ground Speed, Distance 09:27:45, 1050 feet, 160 knots, 2.93 nm (from threshold) 09:27:55, 900 feet, 16...

This is not the same thing, Swoop was a “Scab airline”, Sunwing was an airline with quick upgrades I wasn't trying to equate Sunwing with Swoop nor imply Handover was a Swoop Scab. My remark was to directed at Handovers point about how screwed up this industy is with the comment "Seems fair right? ...

Imagine being a widebody captain in the sandpit, coming back to canada getting a job at an airline that has relatively quick upgrades, then being sold to an other airlines and now your upgrade will take 12 years. Sounds like a DEC Swoop Scab ? Speaking of Swoop Scabs how many of them came from Sunw...

La Presse, November 2nd "In a week, it will have no more money in its coffers and will crash for good." "What we are told by the bankers is: I will not go beyond November 8 without approval of the transaction." https://www.lapresse.ca/affaires/entreprises/2024-11-02/relance-de-chrono-aviation/signer...

From the award ... "1-1.5. The Companies agree to provide the same protections to Sunwing Pilots as are entitled to WestJet Pilots under Section 1-2.04(e) of WestJet CA2, with the exception that Sunwing’s Quebec City Base will close and all Sunwing Pilots at Quebec City Base will be assigned to West...

Air Canada still has some planes flying around in the old TCA Trans Canada Airlines colours. Talking about slow, when was that changed 1966 ?

Julien Arsenault, La Press, October 28th, 2024 https://www.lapresse.ca/affaires/entreprises/2024-10-28/restructuration-de-chrono-aviation/l-offre-de-peladeau-ou-la-liquidation.php Péladeau’s offer or liquidation Chrono Aviation had no choice but to sell its jewel – a private terminal – to Starlink A...

It looks like Chrono Aviation has gone into administration but appear to still be operating. Anyone have any more info. ?

https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/cana ... nistration

https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/MBK900

Timetoflyagain wrote: ↑Fri Sep 27, 2024 7:16 pm probably our lovely P&W GTF engines.

Thanks, that's probably it. I didn't realize the PW GTF issues effected the E295 as well.

It looks like C-GKXS (940) and C-GKXT (941) have recently been delivered and will be entering service in the next few days. According to Flightradar24 C-GKQN (905) has been parked in YOW since April and C-GKQU (912) that has been parked in YYZ since January. Just wondering what is up with these 2 ta...