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Cal Fire had to work their way past a long line of roadblocks to bring the C130 program online. There were big challenges with ownership / chain of custody and replacement parts tracking and a lot of folks believed they'd never pull it off. This is a good thing for their program. Their S2s are pretty long in the tooth and require significant work to extend their service life. In addition to being another effective tool in the kit, the Hercs will give them the breathing room to get that work done on the S2s.

If the employer is not being honest, don't they deserve to be called out for it? Who better to do that than the people who have evidence of the truth?

He may have been gone for a good long time, but the more I read and hear about this situation, the more I feel that Milton's presence is still permeating the place. Sad.

IMHO, the court would only be ruling on the constitutionality of the government's action to end the rail lockout. Whatever collective agreements may result from the government's intervention are not grist for that particular mill. So as Turbofan rightly suggests, you have to go to the table aiming to get the best deal you can because whether or not you were ordered back to work won't matter. The courts will never force the cork back into the bottle in that regard.

The NDP has already stated publicly that they do not support forcing the railways back to work, so the Liberal's can't get back to work legislation passed using their "coalition" with the NDP. The big question will be, what do the Conservatives do if the Liberals reconvene parliament in an effort to legislate an end to the rail strike? If the CPC votes against it, they're basically saying all their talk about damage to the economy was just talk and that politics are more important. If they vote in favour, well let's just say I'd be loading up on popcorn and sitting back to watch the show.

That runway is long overdue for a RESA upgrade. The best way to minimize the footprint would be to invest in EMAS.

That would be a violation of our commitments to NAFTA / CUSMA

I feel for those folks who are facing an uncertain future - for some, for the third or fourth time. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/canada-jetlines-halts-operations-plans-for-creditor-protection/ar-AA1oR5uU?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=720f3b68afcf491aa385d298765d21a4&ei=26

Apparently the engine shutdown was a precaution for a low oil pressure indication.

That was nasty. I know someone who's an AME at WestJet - he posted a video of the hail from his deck. His wife's car and the siding on their house both took serious damage.

Juan provides some good context here, but his opening statement kind of says it all.

They had the correct altimeter setting. It sounds like they mistook the Courtney Campbell causeway for the runway. It also appears they did not get any GPWS warnings. The NTSB report should make for some interesting reading.

Now if only the airplane was as "state of the art" as the simulator.

Weird. The FAA is a signatory to the ICAO DG technical instructions and US carriers must conform with the IATA Dangerous Goods regulations. They are very clear as to what documentation and declarations are required to carry lithium batteries "in equipment" as cargo. There's no exemptions from those requirements for passenger and crew baggage and there's no FAA difference listed. I must be missing something somewhere but if it was my bum strapped in the seat, I would not be crazy about there being a bunch of laptops and iPads sitting somewhere in the cargo hold, especially given the way some ramp crews like to throw around passenger baggage.

In layman's terms, this is known a "KABOOM".

That's interesting. The regulations are very clear on the matter - any rechargeable batteries must be declared and packaged as dangerous goods to be placed in a cargo hold. Delta must have applied for an exemption to allow them in checked baggage.

I hope the company pulled back on their effort to rob the retirement plan to fund the wage increase.

O’Regan is being disingenuous. It was his own government’s past policy decisions regarding right to strike that led to the language in the CIRB’s order. If he truly wanted to stop the strike, they should have reconvened parliament and put forward emergency legislation, but doing that would have forced the NDP’s hand in deciding if they would continue to support the government, or vote against it. No, a vote against wouldn’t topple the “coalition”, but it would make it very difficult for the tenuous coalition to hold going forward.

... the Elephant Hill wildfire enters the chat. Story goes that a shattered piece of glass magnified the sunlight and set off the paper bag it was in.

I've said this many times before - the company comes to the negotiating table with a bucket of money. So long as the flights are crewed appropriately, they don't much care for how that bucket gets divvied up. But legislating the change as proposed doesn't magically make that bucket any bigger.

James McRae, an RCAF veteran and the last surviving WWII recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross, died this year, aged 106. A restored PBY Canso, which he flew during the war, will journey from Fairview, Alta., to Yarmouth, N.S., in his memory. https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6419729

I found this info here. https://www.portvancouver.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2019-05-Web-Friendly-File-Safe-Boating-Guide-2019-Update.pdf Based on the images I am quite positive the aircraft was within the mapped area.

I have read elsewhere that maritime rules state that if one vessel has "limited mobility / maneuvering capability vs. another, then the one with limited mobility has the right of way. It's pretty hard to argue that a Beaver on floats doing a takeoff has the same mobility / maneuvering capability as your typical pleasure boat. The Vancouver Harbour safe boating guide also delineates a a floatplane operations area and tells boaters to avoid that area altogether. The aircraft was inside that area. All this to say there are a few holes in the Swiss cheese that need to be addressed.

I know many will say he died doing what he loved, but to still be flying at age 90 seems a little stubborn and selfish to me.

I only flew the 200, but compared to the other turboprops in its class, it was far superior in all respects.