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- 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?
- Sun Jun 08, 2008 7:01 pm
- Forum: Air Canada
- Topic: Richard Milton Leaving
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3835
Re: Richard Milton Leaving
You guys get your headsets supplied to you? How often can you get a new one? Or did I just read it wrong?As long as I don't have to buy a headset or say any crummy jokes in my 767, let's do it.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...