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by jakeandelwood
Sun Mar 15, 2020 11:21 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Transition between aircraft
Replies: 11
Views: 1528

Re: Transition between aircraft

Yes, it's pretty much the insurance companies that are making the rules. If your renting the flight school will make you do a checkout, which is a good thing. If you buy an obscure plane trying to find someone to give you that insurance required checkout can be difficult sometimes.
by jakeandelwood
Fri Mar 13, 2020 11:35 am
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: Tire Fix-it-Kits
Replies: 13
Views: 1499

Re: Tire Fix-it-Kits

I believe the owner/pilot of a private certified aircraft is allowed to change a tire on their aircraft, is that not elementary work? In the back of my plane I have a bicycle tire repair kit and a small hand pump along with a little jack. I also have a little tool box with enough tools to take a whe...
by jakeandelwood
Wed Mar 11, 2020 10:52 pm
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: Hydraulic Fires
Replies: 14
Views: 1890

Re: Hydraulic Fires

https://www.machinerylubrication.com/Re ... ant-fluids

Non flammable hydraulic fluid seems to be out there, looks like in stationary machinery mostly.
by jakeandelwood
Fri Mar 06, 2020 12:58 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Offering Flights with a PPL
Replies: 45
Views: 4545

Re: Offering Flights with a PPL

It’s going to be interesting as those “ride sharing” companies try and break into aviation. There are a lot of people in the mindset that this will happen. They beat taxi companies some how, there no way you are sharing your car. You are driving for hire and reward, you don’t have the license or th...
by jakeandelwood
Fri Mar 06, 2020 12:04 pm
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: It might be best to get a top up enroute
Replies: 39
Views: 8187

Re: It might be best to get a top up enroute

Instead of that controller saying "unless it's an emergency there is no way you can land at Dover" she could have said "it seems like you are having trouble sir, I can give you priority vectors into Dover if you declare an emergency" that may have coaxed him into swallowing his pride and declaring ...
by jakeandelwood
Fri Mar 06, 2020 1:52 am
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: It might be best to get a top up enroute
Replies: 39
Views: 8187

Re: It might be best to get a top up enroute

Instead of that controller saying "unless it's an emergency there is no way you can land at Dover" she could have said "it seems like you are having trouble sir, I can give you priority vectors into Dover if you declare an emergency" that may have coaxed him into swallowing his pride and declaring t...
by jakeandelwood
Tue Mar 03, 2020 11:24 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Favourite Type
Replies: 56
Views: 5785

Re: Favourite Type

JohnnyHotRocks wrote: Tue Mar 03, 2020 5:00 am Citation X
Nothing like climbing through 40,000’ at 2000fpm and Mach .88 and hearing the airlines ask ATC “what was that that just passed us?”
" it was just a Cessna passing you" :shock:
by jakeandelwood
Mon Mar 02, 2020 9:48 pm
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: 172 down in Victoria BC
Replies: 19
Views: 3835

Re: 172 down in Victoria BC

I heard on the news today someone found the propeller in their backyard.
by jakeandelwood
Mon Mar 02, 2020 9:43 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Favourite Type
Replies: 56
Views: 5785

Re: Favourite Type

Douglas DC6. The epitome of the big Piston airliners with beautifully balanced flight controls and a wonderfully manly low rumble when you set the props to cruise RPM No automation, so how well the flight went was totally up to crew skill. The only magenta line was the streak from the hydraulic ove...
by jakeandelwood
Mon Mar 02, 2020 3:32 pm
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: Westjet hits geese in Victoria
Replies: 26
Views: 3423

Re: Westjet hits geese in Victoria

Well....I provided a link to a previous thread showing two crashes due to go-arounds from bird strikes. Is anyone familiar with a crash from someone who continued to land. http://www.avcanada.ca/forums2/viewtopic.php?f=118&t=130304 I've never heard of any either, that's why I originally wondered.
by jakeandelwood
Sat Feb 29, 2020 10:09 pm
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: Westjet hits geese in Victoria
Replies: 26
Views: 3423

Re: Westjet hits geese in Victoria

Maybe that's what happened, they were warned, initiated a missed approach then hit the birds. Maybe the approach became destabilized.
by jakeandelwood
Sat Feb 29, 2020 11:12 am
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: Westjet hits geese in Victoria
Replies: 26
Views: 3423

Westjet hits geese in Victoria

Date: 2020-02-21 Narrative: A WestJet Boeing 737-8CT (C-GJWS/WJA209) from Calgary, AB (CYYC) to Victoria, BC (CYYJ) reported a bird strike when on short final for Runway 09. WJA209 executed a missed approach and diverted to Vancouver, BC (CYVR). Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting (ARFF) found remains...
by jakeandelwood
Thu Feb 27, 2020 1:06 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Offering Flights with a PPL
Replies: 45
Views: 4545

Re: Offering Flights with a PPL

Bede wrote: Wed Feb 26, 2020 1:09 pm This guy got a $1000 fine for doing exactly what you're proposing.

https://decisions.tatc.gc.ca/tatc/tatc/ ... 3/index.do
Jesus! That's all the fine he got? Demonstrating forced landings by actually shutting down the engine? What a moron.
by jakeandelwood
Tue Feb 18, 2020 10:53 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Leaving with a bond?
Replies: 66
Views: 8271

Re: Leaving with a bond?

I worked for a Company that shut down and they tried to get employees with bonds to pay the outstanding balances they each owed, employees that had no intention of leaving.
by jakeandelwood
Sun Feb 16, 2020 11:59 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Leaving with a bond?
Replies: 66
Views: 8271

Re: Leaving with a bond?

What a delightfully simplistic viewpoint. But maybe the boss is wealthy from other business endeavours and the air operation isn't quite as profitable. Or maybe the house is long since paid for from days gone by when the business was more profitable. Perhaps it used to be a real going concern but a...
by jakeandelwood
Sun Feb 16, 2020 12:36 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Leaving with a bond?
Replies: 66
Views: 8271

Re: Leaving with a bond?

Please explain to me how it isn't relevant? Something pays for it all. Maybe instead of owners spending all the profits on large houses and expensive cars they could invest some money back into their company, therefore retaining happier employees. It would probably save them money in the long run.
by jakeandelwood
Sat Feb 15, 2020 11:58 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Leaving with a bond?
Replies: 66
Views: 8271

Re: Leaving with a bond?

Why does everyone always assume a small company is "hard up" or "broke" I've worked for a few small companies and at one of them the owner was always crying the Blues, couldn't afford to pay me O/T etc, etc, and I believed him till he invited me over to his waterfront mansion for a xmass party.
by jakeandelwood
Sat Feb 15, 2020 11:47 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Private Pilot and Ultralight Time
Replies: 13
Views: 1959

Re: Private Pilot and Ultralight Time

When I got to 50 hours of PIC I just stopped logging it for TC but kept logging it towards total time. Not sure what the allowable hours are now but back them 50 pic counted towards the atpl. Its a load of crap really. it has an engine, a propeller, and controls for 3 axis. It's an aeroplane, so wh...
by jakeandelwood
Tue Feb 11, 2020 12:37 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Leaving with a bond?
Replies: 66
Views: 8271

Re: Leaving with a bond?

Cut through the rhetoric guys. First off, a training bond is an unfortunate legal scam, and worse still, our canadian legal system thinks it is all OK. Google it and you will find that judges think it is all fine. So much for the legal system in Canada. No protection for the average joe in this pla...
by jakeandelwood
Mon Feb 10, 2020 12:05 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Leaving with a bond?
Replies: 66
Views: 8271

Re: Leaving with a bond?

You are one up on the ethical scale from the company you would be leaving if you ask me. You are paying back the money that they spent training you. They should be praising you to your future employers.

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