If I don't need to understand how my airplane flies, why should I need to know how my aircraft's systems work. Afterall, isn't it enough that I know how to program the FMS and which switches do what? That's great while everything is working, but what about when things start breaking? As pilots we ar...

Any info on a beaver that crashed around High level this weekend ,just wondering if everyone was OK . From the CADORS: A float-equipped DHC-2 Beaver operated by Little Red River Forestry Ltd. was departing from Margaret Lake, AB (CFV6) when the engine quit. The pilot carried out a forced landing st...

I just read through the C-150L POH and it makes no mention of "downwind" take off. I've never looked at a C-150 POH nor flown a C-150 so I cannot comment on what the difference would be. But I have the C-152, C-172, and C-208 POH's sitting right in front of me and all three say the same thing about...

Actually, if you look in the performance charts for any aircraft it will tell you what your performance loss is with varying tailwinds. I can't remember exactly but I believe the 172 needs another 100 feet of runway for every 2 knots on the tail. It's in the same area where it tells you what your p...

I just got the same overdue notice today without ever having received the original invoice. I logged in (I was smart enough to write down the cryptic password a couple years ago), and eventually found the Pay button and clicked that. The website didn't even ask me to confirm my credit card number or...

The CARS definition for a dual control aircraft are very straightforward. CARS 425.23 states: (2) An aircraft that is used for dual flight training, shall (a) be at least a two place aircraft; (b) have engine power controls and flight controls that are easily reached and that operate in a normal ma...

At the first FTU I didn't give them any information about my background. The guy at the front desk just said that 10-15 is the norm for most people. He also said they had a couple of their instructors get their multi last year and it took them the same amount. At the other FTU, I asked them if some...

After I was finished flying this morning I stopped in at two of the flight schools on the field... And both of them said I was looking at anywhere between 10-15 to get the multi done. What a load of B.S. Now I know that everyone learns at their own pace... One FTU uses a PA-34 and the other "used" ...

And I didn't say that the U of A was INACCESSIBLE from YXD. That is typical of the bull crap that permeates this debate. I said that they were time wise equidistant. I've done it, unfortunately. This entire debate aside, I am curious about this statement, Edmonchuck. I've lived in Edmonton for some...

If the airport is closed, the Runway 29 Pub just won't be the same anymore. That is the most critical issue!

Wasn't that part of the reason why Peace Air went out of business? Or was it some company out of Calgary (QuickAir?)... I can't remember... but it was something about the airport not allowing the charters in... they had to go to the international? As far as I remember, a few years back the airport ...

YEG already gets a bunch of medivacs from various places. Yes I realize that and did not mean to imply that YEG gets no medevacs. Every medevac I've ever done to Edmonton from northern Alberta has been to YXD, though. I simply wonder what changes would be made if now all the flights had to go to YEG.

I wonder whether, if the airport were closed, all the medevac flights from northern Alberta would just end up going to Calgary. The difference in flight time between Edmonton and Calgary is probably the same or less than the amount of time it would take for an ambulance ride into the city from the E...

Get your instructor rating. But after a year or so (a full season) you will have learned as much as you're going to, and it's time to move onto something different (ie 70x). Hedley, you make a good point. I've often said to others that I learned a lot more teaching people to fly than I did when I w...

http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8408799&nav=menu35_4 "When we first come up there was fuel pouring out of one of the wings. I don't know how it got there but it was spewing out the side and they estimated there was between three and five hundred pounds on board," Deputy Snyder said. Fuel o...

Well, I for one am really relieved that people are promoting self-experimentation using a hood and a non-certified piece of equipment to test a theory on flying blind - in real live aircraft. What I interpret Snoopy to be saying here is that we shouldn't be experimenting like this with a hood on an...

The take off weight would have been BEW 2950lbs + PAX 965lbs + Gas 520lbs= 4435lbs (not including bags ect) MTOW is 4300 lbs I brought this up a while back in the thread, but thanks for crunching the numbers. Me and my colleagues regularly watched the owners load up the plane like this, so I wonder...

This photo of the cockpit shows what instruments were available. There was a complete set of backup instruments on the copilot side.

I'm only sharing an observation here, nothing more. I used to work where this company kept their two aircraft hangared. The PA-46 in question was a JetProp conversion, which has a useful load of 1358 lbs, according to the website specs (http://www.jetprop.com/comparisons.html). I regularly witnessed...