...I finally came to the conclusion that there was another factor at work in the process of judging height and that was closure rate.... Although you express it differently, I'm not sure that we're necessarily doing things differently, .. Obviously 500 ft down the runway isn't exactly the horizon, ...

Here's a question. Weather is good ceilings, but 2sm in drizzle and haze. I do a contact approach into a control zone. I know the area fairly well, so navigate using landmarks and looking outside the aircraft, basically not using my instruments. After I land, a VFR aircraft is granted special VFR t...

... You can also encounter IFC when in VMC conditions; night was one example mentioned above, the other that comes to mind is white-out conditions. These conditions are irrelevant of weather you are VFR/IFR, flying in VMC or IMC. Those are the conditions that require you to maintain the attitude of...

Eyes to the end of the runway helps too when youre in the flare. This advice has been around for years and I have never been able to figure out just what advantage looking into the far distance gives you for judging your relation to the the runway either in closure rate or height. Can you please ex...

While post #13 is a good clarification to make, IMC/VMC is the same as IFC/VFC. The definition of IMC/VMC do not only apply to areas "at a given station" - if it's IMC it's instrument flight conditions (or IFC if you want to use Outlaw58's terminology). The reason that IFC/VFC aren't used is that th...

Flying between two solid layers 1000' apart and in good visibility is visual flight conditions. Does not count as instrument time. Flying night VFR with no moon and under high overcast between Yellowknife and Cambridge Bay is also instrument flight conditions. If you turn off all the lights and bli...

You made a distinction between IMC and VMC but declared both are instrument time. I believe it can be argued otherwise. What I was trying to do (and obviously not doing a very good job at) is distinguishing a flight filed IFR vs one filed VFR-over-the-top with regards to someone's comment about bei...

I have a similar question. How long does the signature/stamp in your booklet remain valid? I haven’t received the official sticker from TC yet. Thanks The signature in your booklet is all you get. I think they send out stickers when something changes (i.e. possibly when a restriction is applied or ...

"You can only log instrument time when you are in actual IMC or under the hood... ...You don't put any instrument time when you are above the cloud and clear" I agree with the first part of the statement - you only log actual when IMC. But the second part..... IMC does not mean in cloud, it means n...

"All 47 passengers and crew survived a plane's crash landing in a Pacific lagoon Friday morning, wading through waist-deep water to the emergency exits and escaping on local boats that came to the rescue in the Micronesia archipelago...."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/micronesi ... -1.4842118

In the past, we only ever saw IFR flights, no VFR, even though we always get a discreet code for entering the TCA. Do VFR flights now show up?

The discussion about commuting looks moot, though - if you are not presently a commercial pilot, the key point is what some other poster already said, which is most entry level positions don't have that option and there just aren't that many jobs based from Halifax (although there are sometimes open...

so I'm still looking for something that I can actually stick with and not hate Have you tried golf? I've tried the occasional game, but I need something that doesn't take half the day to do, and frankly, I'm not so sure that my blood pressure wouldn't go up with that - I'm pretty awful (as a pilot ...

I have a Lightspeed Zulu, my husband has a Bose - I'd say they're equal as far as ANR goes, but my mic is better in that his picks up more background noise when he's speaking (although Bose has the better "structure"/arm that holds the mic). I've been very impressed with Lightspeed's customer suppor...

HiFlyChick, Are you located in the Atlantic Canada region? I have heard that it's only the RAMO in Atlantic Canada (also in charge of the International region) that sends out this BMI letter. Although this particular medical issue doesn't directly impact me (yet), I have quite an issue with differe...

Wow - that's awesome muffin! I got the "fat letter" a while back from the RAMO ("your BMI is high.." yada yada) and have been struggling with it ever since. Thanks for letting us know that changing your lifestyle is possible - BTW, do you have any spare willpower lying around

When I was a commercial student, one of the local airlines had a really awesome Chief Pilot, who wanted to encourage junior pilots, so he had a program whereby the local flying school could recommend commercial students for jump seat rides. It was really awesome to do a run YHZ-YYG and back in the j...

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You used to be able to get in the jump seat in Canada pre 9-11 - hardly snobbery, more like it was just too close to home

I also did a CADORS search on Ookpik Aviation and found no incidents for this year (didn't search back further). Finally found it on the Aviation Safety Network: http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20180709-0 The entry references TSB A18C0062, but when I search on the TSB site, there i...