...This was not "a cross country the students requested". This was well reported, by the school themselves, this was a regular event initiated, organized and facilitated by the school. They are therefore completely responsible in my view.... That's a good point, Rookie, and you're right, regardless...

...Are you telling me this was a practice flight for the instructor? I wonder if his passengers knew he was practicing something for his benefit, and not for theirs. How nice for them. Or not, as it turned out. The man was a professional instructor, working for a professional flight school.... I gu...

Is there another report with these details? The newspaper article actually says that there might have been some rain around, but there was no heavy weather. If bad weather wasn't actually in the forecast, you can't blame the club for that one. Also, it doesn't say anywhere how the plane was equipped...

For me it was Ag. flying ....period. Since you can't sense tone in a post, I'll say right out - I'm not being sarcastic - is ag flying really fun? I don't doubt it's demanding in its precision, but I thought it looked kinda boring going back and forth in a bunch of straight lines all day... Or is i...

Well, this'll be the first job with boots on an aircraft, so.... learning curve! Would IceX on the boots have adverse affects (long term - degradation of the boots themselves?) I think I know what Mayday episode you're talking about. They interviewed a bunch of pilots from the same company, and got...

https://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/civilaviation/standards/commerce-circulars-ac0147-1615.htm The most important part of this AC is the date! I just watched a Mayday episode a few days ago where the cause of the crash was ice and a subsequent stall (tail stall? can't remember) One of the TSB discussions was ...

Zaibatsu wrote: ↑Sat Mar 17, 2018 10:47 am Who's going to read the ATIS now?

Not cool, dude

Gee, you're right - I just checked... coulda sworn that there was some additional multi time requirement but turns out not. I must be getting old

Do they count towards multi-time for ATPL, though...? Not sure how center-line thrust hours are logged but I seem to recall that they can't be included when time building for higher ratings

... I trust this answers your " Really " comment. Thanks for the clarification, CWE - I think we were comparing apples and oranges - or it may be another case of I haven't had enough coffee yet today. :) In the discussion of the pilots not really even knowing what had happened, I meant more like th...

Someone mentioned that the pilots may not actually know what happened themselves, and at the speed that things go wrong, that could very well be true. Not because they are trying to be evasive, but just because it's only in hindsight that they would start thinking "At that precise moment, what was ...

Yeah, the landing wasn't pretty, but the message is that the pilot was controlling the plane by using the controllability it provided. Wildly variable winds were within that pilot's capability, and the outcome was a safe landing. I wonder what possible damage was done to the gear that could only sh...

No wheels came off the plane. Ohhhhhh! I guess I did too much paperwork without enough coffee today :) I actually was reading about the wheel of the plane did this and that and pictured just the wheel of the plane going hurtling here and there. Boy do I feel silly, and for the record, I'm not a tro...

In short, disagreeing with anything some of the PC fanatics say risks being labeled hate speech -- for the crime of disagreement. And I'm not talking about this specific thread or the photo,in my reference to PC.... You're right Rookie - it is starting to get scary... perhaps that's why it bothers ...

Good topic, PilotDAR - I've heard accident discussions before and absolutely cringe at description about how the wind "caught the aircraft and took it off the runway". There was a local one in particular that was like that and I guess maybe the guy telling about it was trying not to be mean or overl...

Oh, okay - good to know I wasn't being particularly obtuse.... Disabled on a taxiway after aborting a take-off? And something that sounds like the wheel shot off the plane, hit a runway light on its way off the runway and then across the parallel taxiway. So they're trying to say that they aborted t...

Ummmm.... I see a very light wind that is mostly crosswind, and to tell the truth, I can't for the life of me figure out the point that you're trying to make with that video... Someone mentioned that the pilots may not actually know what happened themselves, and at the speed that things go wrong, th...

And the dismissal of your feelings by labeling them with small words just makes it worse What are the big words that feelings should be labeled with? And should the expression that someone's feelings got hurt be used as a limit to discussion? I didn't say my feelings were "hurt" - I'm not that inse...

I guess it all comes down to how much crap you've had to endure in your career, or on any given day. Sometimes it rolls right off and sometimes it's the straw...
And the dismissal of your feelings by labeling them with small words just makes it worse

Wow! I'm blown away by the money you guys are spending on watches! I guess I'd better look for the cheap, oops, I mean thrifty pilot forum.... If it were me, I'd take the dough, by a cheap watch (since who uses one anyway, as has been said) and go find a Pitts somewhere to do some aerobatics in But ...