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by Biff
Mon Jun 09, 2008 1:45 pm
Forum: The Water Cooler
Topic: B2 stealth bomber crash
Replies: 19
Views: 748

Re: B2 Crash

interesting, if you look at the rotation point of the two aircraft, it seems to be about 1000 feet different(the crashed one rotating at the earliest point). Lead stayed on the runway quite a bit longer. I imagine they should be approx the same weight if they are flying in formation?
by Biff
Sun Jun 08, 2008 7:01 pm
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: Richard Milton Leaving
Replies: 25
Views: 3835

Re: Richard Milton Leaving

As long as I don't have to buy a headset or say any crummy jokes in my 767, let's do it.
You guys get your headsets supplied to you? How often can you get a new one? Or did I just read it wrong?
by Biff
Thu May 22, 2008 11:48 am
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: What would you do?
Replies: 47
Views: 3217

Re: What would you do?

In any event it's hard to imagine a situation where an MD recommends immediate medical care after examining a patient and Medlink doesn't agree after hearing the symptoms over the radio. Extremely unlikely in my opinion since as you say Medlink assumes liability. They have a business to run too, an...
by Biff
Thu May 22, 2008 10:37 am
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: What would you do?
Replies: 47
Views: 3217

Re: What would you do?

Do you not consider a fully licenced medical doctor who has examined the patient an expert? This would be a difficult question for me as a pilot to make. Sure we can get him to pass his license up to the flight deck, now to figure it out!! Imagine giving a doctor(not an aviation doctor) our license...
by Biff
Thu May 22, 2008 9:08 am
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: What would you do?
Replies: 47
Views: 3217

Re: What would you do?

Right on, good for you. In my case I'm going to let the known experts make the call and take the responsibility. If you choose to follow the other path, I would suggest you are responsible, legally, for everything that happens after that point. Hopefully your good judgement works and nothing untowar...
by Biff
Thu May 22, 2008 8:41 am
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: What would you do?
Replies: 47
Views: 3217

Re: What would you do?

I guess my point was that sometimes medical folk will overreact due to being in an airplane at a higher altitude. MedLink doctors are up on the physiological effects of flying and will probably tend to not overreact.
by Biff
Thu May 22, 2008 8:10 am
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: What would you do?
Replies: 47
Views: 3217

Re: What would you do?

ARRRGGGHHH I still don't get why you would argue with someone your company has hired to assess and then take responsibility for their decisions. Once again Medlink has being hired to assess and take responsibility for the health of your passengers. How in the world are you going to assess the qualif...
by Biff
Thu May 22, 2008 7:05 am
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: What would you do?
Replies: 47
Views: 3217

Re: What would you do?

Morale of the story, even if the person is a certified medical doctor, try to get a handle of his type of medical training and experience before you use his advice to trump medilink/statMD. I don't get it. If you have a system like Medlink why are you trying to second guess it. Sure if you can't ge...
by Biff
Wed May 21, 2008 8:02 pm
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: What would you do?
Replies: 47
Views: 3217

Re: What would you do?

I think having MedLink on board makes the answer obvious. They tell you to do something, you would be negligent not to do it. If the supposed expert on board is adamant, the phone should go to him to converse directly to the Medlink doctor(if it's allowed under the SOP's). If he can convince Medlink...
by Biff
Fri Feb 15, 2008 8:48 am
Forum: WestJet
Topic: Any Westjet FOs living in YOW/YYZ area
Replies: 16
Views: 1933

Re: Any Westjet FOs living in YOW/YYZ area

A few years back Royal Oak Mines went bankrupt. Miners at Giant Mine in YK ended up getting about 40% of the value of their pensions because their pension fund had been used to fund operations at the mine(allowable under Canadian law at the time supposedly). A lot of the miners though Canadian law w...
by Biff
Sat Jan 12, 2008 9:16 am
Forum: WestJet
Topic: High oil takes toll on WestJet
Replies: 67
Views: 6036

Re: High oil takes toll on WestJet

[quote="sanjet"]Hmmm coming right from the 3rd quarterly report of 2007 of WJ: Wesjet does not hedge fuel, here's their exposure as WJ indicated for 2007/2008 on their quarterly report: -Every dollar rise in barrel of oil will add 5 million in costs per year -Every cent rise in price for litre of Je...
by Biff
Sat Jan 05, 2008 4:13 pm
Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
Topic: New Air
Replies: 108
Views: 26534

Re: New Air

As per the previous posts, MD80's in this environment probably wouldn't make much sense. Now if we changed the assumption and assumed that New Air was really the name on the OC for Virgin Canada, and the idea of MD 80's was to confuse the competition, then things start to make sense. If it were Virg...
by Biff
Tue Dec 18, 2007 2:39 pm
Forum: WestJet
Topic: WestJet allows stranger to walk 5-year-old girl off flight
Replies: 80
Views: 6199

Re: WestJet allows stranger to walk 5-year-old girl off flight

Sorry if my last post suggested there should be no accountability on behalf of Westjet, of course there should be. There should be an investigation and procedures should be either changed or reinforced. The fact of the matter is however, that as long as people are in the equation, mistakes will occu...
by Biff
Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:23 pm
Forum: WestJet
Topic: WestJet allows stranger to walk 5-year-old girl off flight
Replies: 80
Views: 6199

Re: WestJet allows stranger to walk 5-year-old girl off flight

Today the paper quoted the individual as saying none of the aircrew seemed to be paying any attention to the girl, so he gathered up her toys and put on her jacket. That would explain where the big UM tag was.....underneath her jacket. This supposed "good samaritan" did a very stupid thing, especial...
by Biff
Sun Jun 17, 2007 7:45 pm
Forum: WestJet
Topic: Do Westjet pilots land hard?
Replies: 52
Views: 11402

Here's another CADORS report. Same scenerio, different company. Whats your view of this one Rebel Narrative: ACA 851, an A330, blew a main gear tire on departure from London. After arrival over Calgary, the crew did a fly-by of the tower and Controllers noticed that a starboard main wheel was shredd...

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