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PT6A posted:So it is a difference between Canadian and US law then. I don't think we have a MTOW restriction, but any aircraft with Vs0 > 80kts or Vne > 250 requires a type rating, regardless of engines or weight.
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Forgot to post about needing an update the OP, I am officially an MEI 
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CBJSprague24 posted:What's the logic in It's a complex problem really. Canada pumps out a gently caress ton of 250 hour wonders, due to programs like Confederation College, Seneca, Sault, and that one in Quebec as well as some others across the country that are subsidized by the government (for us, all College and University is heavily subsidized and a few aviation programs snuck in to that scheme before the doors were slammed shut on it). As a result you have a tonne of kids who are willing to work for pennies because their training cost them (effectively) jack poo poo. On the flip side of this you have operators that exploit the hell out of low-timers to save a few bucks. All jobs in the north pay a stupidly high wage because nobody wants to live there. So instead of having highly paid rampies, they can pay peanuts to some bright-eyed southern kid who's looking for his shot. It's extra greasy in my eyes because said high paying rampie jobs could really help the economically depressed territories, but folks like Buffalo Joe want to keep every nickel they can scrounge up. So that's enough to create a system. Then others (pilots and companies) get sucked into said system because "that's just the way she goes, bud."
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behind working the ramp before actually getting flight time at a company? A form of "payin' your dues"/getting your foot in the door or vetting the employees to see who's worth it?
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e.pilot posted:Forgot to post about needing an update the OP, I am officially an MEI Super congrats! I'm taking my MEI ride soon. Any chance you could post a gouge for both your oral and practical including lessons learned? I really think I'm over thinking this one, but I like to be very prepared.
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Captain Apollo posted:Super congrats! I'm taking my MEI ride soon. Any chance you could post a gouge for both your oral and practical including lessons learned? I really think I'm over thinking this one, but I like to be very prepared. It was a journey, between a combination of a bad examiner the first time and my own overconfidence the second time, it took me three tries to finish it up. I'll post a full write up when I can get to a computer.
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For anybody having taken a checkride recently, how dumb is the new ACS stuff vs the old pts? I want to get a float addon but $$$, also risk.
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e.pilot posted:It was a journey, between a combination of a bad examiner the first time and my own overconfidence the second time, it took me three tries to finish it up. I'll post a full write up when I can get to a computer. I would really appreciate it. I know how to fly a twin, it I'm not sure exactly what I need to be able to teach and more specifically DO in the multi practical portion.
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I'm loving the flurry of Trailer Park Boys references from the canucks here.The Slaughter posted:For anybody having taken a checkride recently, how dumb is the new ACS stuff vs the old pts? The commercial is still using the PTS (Assuming you'd be doing a commercial SES add-on). That being said, there really isn't much change in the ACS for the PPL/IFR. There's just more of an emphasis on risk management and ADM (ie more scenario based), and the special emphasis areas were worked directly into each task, rather than being their own section. Our examiner was already doing his checkrides like this for quite some time so for us the switch was a non event.
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Ah, didn't realize it was just for the PPL. Yeah, most of the checkrides I took had at least some scenario based playtime to them but not too strong. Looks like I should be upgrading in July, but maybe sooner. I can't wait.
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Captain Apollo posted:I would really appreciate it. I know how to fly a twin, it I'm not sure exactly what I need to be able to teach and more specifically DO in the multi practical portion. Sorry I'm super late replying, been a hectic week and it slipped my mind. Know your single engine aerodynamics, know everything that contributes to the left engine being critical in a conventional twin. Know why and where multi is the most dangerous. Be able to list of the things you need to do from a takeoff configuration to clean the plane up and get best SE performance. Have a good takeoff brief covering everything from the takeoff roll, below 1000ft with the gear still down, and above 1000ft with the gear up. Directional Control is everything. Know what contributes to the lack of it. Chapter 18 of The Flight Instructor's Manual by William Kershner is solid and has pretty much everything you should know in it, along with some good drawings. Another good one, though not as concise or written from an instructor standpoint is ASA's Complete Multiengine Pilot.
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Captain Apollo posted:I would really appreciate it. I know how to fly a twin, it I'm not sure exactly what I need to be able to teach and more specifically DO in the multi practical portion. As previously mentioned the only real oral difference is being able to teach OEI aerodynamics, engine failure procedures/ADM and OEI performance calculations. There will probably be some extra systems questions as most twins tend to be complex aircraft while most singles aren't. As far as the practical is concerned you need to be able to handle engine failures at pretty much any point from the takeoff roll all the way to short final. You also will need to be able to perform a VMC demo. As far as the teaching aspect you need to be able to determine when it's safe to give a student a failure, simulated or actual. You'll also need to demonstrate that you're aware of the common ways students try to kill you in light twins such as stepping on the wrong rudder, adding full power without corresponding rudder input, sloppy coordination during stalls. Ect.
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Had my first experience flying into bad weather this morning. 0/10 would not fly in it again. I was trying to do my first solo cross country. Weather was fine where I took off, but about half way there I ran into an overcast layer around 3k feet with a broken layer underneath. I tried to see if there was a way around, but I would have had to be weaving between clouds or fly around 1500 feet, neither of which seemed like a great idea, so I turned around. That's when I realized a 35mph headwind isn't bad until you try to turn 180 in it. Made it safely back to my home airport but the weather came with me. Took me two tries to land in a gusting crosswind. Overall I think I made good decisions about my own limits and turning around, but I wish I had made them sooner. The weather was much worse than reported, but I probably shouldn't have gone up at all. Nuggan fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Mar 14, 2017 |
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Nuggan posted:Had my first experience flying into bad weather this morning. 0/10 would not fly in it again. Every pilot gets into scary moments like this. The important thing is you made the right judgement call and made it back safely. And learned something in the meantime.
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You should be applauded for your decision making. We don't get to talk often enough about people who turn around. Instead we talk far too often about people who don't.
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   Looking at the pictures I snapped while the air was smooth, it doesn't even look that bad to me now. You can see how low it was pushing me down though. I didnt get any shots of the heavy broken clouds below the overcast ceiling, I was more concerned about flying the plane while it was bumping all around. Probably doesn't seem like much of a big deal to more experienced pilots, but it shook me up a bit. I was glad to make it to the ground smoothly.
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The Ferret King posted:You should be applauded for your decision making. We don't get to talk often enough about people who turn around. Yep. Just because you probably could get away with something, or you're legally allowed to do something, doesn't mean you should. Knowing your limits is important, although occasionally getting to your limits I think is also underrated -- you want to expand what you feel comfortable with in controlled circumstances, so if/when you're in that situation again, under less favourable circumstances, you don't freak out. For example, it's better that your first encounter with weather at minimums is in the circuit or close to your home airport, rather than in the middle of a long cross-country. Out of curiosity, do you know if we have any Nav Canada controllers around these forums? Or I suppose Canadian pilots could probably answer this: I'm planning my 300nm cross-country for my CPL requirement, and it'll probably take me to Regina, which is the first time I'll have flown into an airport that does have a tower, but is not in class C airspace. I assume the procedure is to monitor 126.7 until calling tower to enter the control zone, but I'm not sure if there's any traffic avoidance things I should know about beyond that. I'm used to dealing with busy airports and airspace flying out of Springbank, but that's mainly small VFR traffic, not IFR/jet traffic.
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Pryor on Fire posted:Airlines have a long history of cyclical boom & bust, expecting this to change is foolish. The very real possibility of pilots going away much sooner than anyone expects is looming as well. Save some cash youngins, you won't regret it. Emirates is pretty well aware of this and taking lots of precautionary measures atm. I've heard there's basically a hiring freeze
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i fly airplanes posted:Emirates is pretty well aware of this and taking lots of precautionary measures atm. I've heard there's basically a hiring freeze Emirates is, for a variety of reasons, turbofucked.
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Update to the op.. Please add A330/A350 Ta
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hjp766 posted:Update to the op.. Awesome. Congrats
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hjp766 posted:Update to the op.. Nice! Do the 330/350 share a common type rating?
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KodiakRS posted:Nice! Do the 330/350 share a common type rating? Yup. Waiting on accounts to order 350s and then say we don't need training
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hjp766 posted:Yup. Waiting on accounts to order 350s and then say we don't need training can i fly on your new plane?
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hjp766 posted:Update to the op.. Goongratulations. I'll race you on the 767-300
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I had my first CPL pre-flight-test today. It did not go amazingly, but not terribly either. I have a few more duals to do... Hadn't practiced spins in six months, so although I went over the recovery procedure in detail, I hosed up the entry and it just.... didn't spin.
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Animal posted:Goongratulations. Don't tempt fate, was just suggested that if I email the chief pilot they'd quite like me to fly the 767 this summer...   The head of training did say on no account email before the CAA issue a licence though.
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PT6A posted:I had my first CPL pre-flight-test today. What aircraft? I did some spin training in a 152 and you had to really force it to spin, and then you had to pretend that stopping the spin required any real effort.
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sleepy gary posted:What aircraft? I did some spin training in a 152 and you had to really force it to spin, and then you had to pretend that stopping the spin required any real effort. 172. My instructor said the trick to getting a left spin was banking right to cause the left wing to stall early, then force the spin with left rudder. Oh well, guess I'll try it on Saturday.
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sleepy gary posted:and then you had to pretend that stopping the spin required any real effort. "oh I seem to have found myself in a spin, I guess I'll hold all the wrong inputs so I can get maybe a full rotation"
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e.pilot posted:this is my favorite part about spinning 152/172s Oh good it's not just me.
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Anyone near ORD hear the crazy guy on guard this afternoon? He was yelling about JP-8 having poison in it and that he was placing the military pilots under citizens arrest for not using jet-a. Couldn't tell if it was a joke or a paranoid dude who had spent his money on a transceiver instead of his meds.PT6A posted:Oh good it's not just me. I found that in the 172 if you yaw to the right a bit before trying to spin it gives you a bit of a running start with regards to left yaw. Be wings level in slow flight and slowly get the brick/ball about halfway out to the left. Then simultaneously apply left rudder, right aileron, and full power. You'll end up with enough "yaw momentum" that you actually end up in a spin instead of a spiral. KodiakRS fucked around with this message at 06:32 on Mar 17, 2017 |
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I haven't heard any good guard shenanigans in a long time.
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Oh hey, Trump is proposing privatizing ATC and defunding EAS so we can buy some F35s and build a wall and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN™  https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...m=.62117f126a6a https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-presidential-budget-2018-proposal/?utm_term=.872f986e1ede
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On the subject of aeros as we had spare time in the last sim so we decided to practice barrel rolls in the 330... and it worked without exceeding the g-loading
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I completed my private pilot checkride yesterday, so you can add me to the list in the second post... if that's still updated. Private Pilot, VFR, based at BQ1, flying a Lockwood Super Drifter and building a Rans S-20.
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Animal posted:Goongratulations. Oh you and your light twins! *tousles hair*
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Arson Daily posted:Oh you and your light twins! *tousles hair* whale pilot spotted
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Winds and clouds having canceled my previous attempt, I finished my first solo cross country today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nlfseUJh9w
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Flying NC-AZ on a beeline Tuesday. Anybody on the radios headed that way?
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