The fuel on board a 172 -especially the older models- is always an estimate. Never accurate. Right. It's amazing 172's aren't dropping from the skies en masse due to fuel starvation. Look, you can make whatever logical contortions and hypothetical gymnastics you need to in order to attempt to justi...

By the way, how would the FO know how much fuel is required for the trip, if you: - don't tell him where you're going - might change your mind about how long you'll be flying - have him do fuel calculations for a destination and a pax load that has no impact on the actual planned flight All irrelev...

Additionally, can you fault a candidate for being unable to perform a task, which the PIC - examiner is unable to perform as well, with probably hundred times as much experience? Yes. Of course you can. The task is elementary and absolutely critical to the safe completion of the flight. The presenc...

If you're doing a flight test, you are presumably attempting to show that you're fit to be a pilot. Never mind running out of fuel, if you even get to the point of using up your VFR reserves, and either don't notice, or don't say anything to the examiner about it, you've demonstrated a gross ineptit...

Yeah well, not many seats for sale on a truck. I think that industry is set up to weather the pandemic storm better than ours. And I suspect most modern truck seats and cabs are equally if not more spacious and comfortable than most turbo props and jets. Besides, back pain is generally easy to avoid...

This is my view only, but I didn't spend 10's of thousands of dollars to work outside in harsh conditions for minimum wage in an undesirable town on the chance that I may be offered a cockpit after an undetermined amount of time. Well then, you must not have done your research because, your luck no...

photofly wrote: ↑Fri Nov 27, 2020 10:05 am There's nothing stopping you activating your ELT before you "go down", either.

Well that's just not true.

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you have been a member of this forum for 15 years and made almost 2500 posts. I’m going to hazard a guess that you are a pilot working in the industry (I may be wrong). If you were fooled by the photo, an uninformed member of the public might be too, What bearing does one's avcanada membership hist...

"Major breach" "Angered authorities" "Reckless" "Put the safety of Territorians at risk” ... "The men had returned a negative coronavirus test" Who are they? Is their identity a secret? It's time to start publicly naming and shaming quarantine breachers. Incredible narcissism. I get it. They should ...

Firstly in the USA do you even know how many states and municipalities have mandatory masks? 34 states, that’s right, including one of the hardest hit NY. Funny if you look at the graph for NY, mandatory masks happened end of may, however covid cases were already on the decline. Now for some reason...

But the level of entitlement I'm seeing lately from high time pilots its just unbelievable. I've seen no evidence that anyone complaining here is "high time" or has any experience that - given the last 5 years in aviation - couldn't have been easily obtained by anyone in their mid to late twenties.

If you voted liberal, you get what you deserve. No sympathy for anyone who voted this hippie goofball in. I'm not sure why anyone would need your sympathy regarding a carbon tax, but it's disturbing to see these burgeoning caustic partisan attitudes grow more prevalent in this country. It's the sam...

Sorry, I misspoke earlier. I would be curious to know how they arrived at the dollar values for each operator. At first glance it looks like it could be operator size, but that doesn't seem to hold up to scrutiny.

Would be curious to know how those funds were allocated.

BTW these guys had only been on duty for about 6 hours, it's up to the crew to ensure the rest, scheduling had no part in it. Unless you have first hand knowledge of the schedules in question that's a pretty bold statement, considering your average northern operator's proclivity for fucking with cr...

You'll be told to use the grass to the left/right of runway X between taxiways Y and Z. I can't speak to all airports, but at the couple I've done this at, the controllers will not "tell you" to do anything involved in operating beyond the designated takeoff and landing areas. I suspect it has a lo...

Were high net worth people flying on WestJet to begin with? I don't see how this is related.

The old prophecy finds new life!

Keep your hand on that wobble pump for when the red light flickers.