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- 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.
- 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...
- 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.
Non flammable hydraulic fluid seems to be out there, looks like in stationary machinery mostly.
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- Tue Mar 03, 2020 11:24 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Favourite Type
- Replies: 56
- Views: 5785
Re: Favourite Type
" it was just a Cessna passing you"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?”
- 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.
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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
Jesus! That's all the fine he got? Demonstrating forced landings by actually shutting down the engine? What a moron.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
- 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.
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.