J.O.

The water tanks don't take up much of the interior space in the CL water bombers. Even the original piston 215's had rows of "seats" in the forward cabin ahead of the tanks.

San Jose airport gets two types of weather. CAVOK or monsoon. The ditches are for the monsoons.

Canadian controlled is more about financial control and voting shares than on where the management team comes from.

On 4/5/2022 at 1:09 PM, Seeker said:

Wow, impressive.  Be sure to click on the gear icon and turn on sub-titles.

 

Indeed, that wasn't her first go at an engine rebuild.

Interesting, EASA claims to have done much more than the USA to protect aviation from 5G interference, time will tell if it was enough.

7 minutes ago, Kip Powick said:

Seriously, was there ever ay discussion about drive through deicing .? .

They tried a drive-through gantry system in Munich many years ago but they abandoned it in favour of a deciding pad. IIRC, an aircraft sustained significant damage when the gantry malfunctioned and struck the tail as they taxied away.

They probably shut down the engines just prior to landing. Once the power comes off both main AC buses, the RAT will deploy.

I know it’s possible but the notion of a wing failure on a modern jetliner is pretty astounding.

Well done Rich! That's even better than a filter-based system, especially if you're using aviation paint that contains isocyanates or any product that contains chromium (aviation has several of them). No one can tell you how long a filter cartridge provides protection against that stuff. Forced air respiration eliminates that concern.

I recommend a respirator too. Manganese dioxide is a primary ingredient and that stuff is nasty. I wouldn’t put any of the other ingredients on my peanut butter sandwich either.

For those who live in newer townhomes, one side note on turning off the water supply while away. These buildings are usually equipped with sprinkler systems. Our neighbours have been away for a month and my wife has been keeping an eye on their place. The other day she wanted to water some plants but found the water was off. She asked me to come turn it on. I assumed they would have turned off the valve that is downstream from the sprinkler feed line, but I arrived to find the main valve (the one with the big red tag saying "DO NOT CLOSE THIS VALVE") was closed. I corrected it and sent them an email to let them know why. They were embarrassed and said they didn't notice the shutoff valve they should have used, which still doesn't explain why they thought it was no problem to deactivate their sprinklers.

Reports coming from the scene suggest parts of the tail were found a fair distance from the main wreckage.

“Russian Air Force taking a beating”

Good!

Wow.

I wish them luck, it won't be easy running a bunch of A320s and NGs without parts support.

On 3/5/2022 at 2:39 AM, Super 80 said:

I'm very sorry, I didn't think I was being unclear. I am not referring to common employer issues or suggesting an Independence Air type strategy where I believe five people kept their jobs when Compass was established.

The only thought I was trying to convey subsequently was that Sunwing's seasonality potentially limits the size and relative maturity of the workforce.

Okay, now I see what you're getting at. I haven't seen a seniority list but there will be a fair number of Sunwing folks with more than 10 years seniority. I don't have a dog in the fight and I hope the integration isn't another bloodbath, but I'm probably going to be disappointed.

7 hours ago, Super 80 said:

I referred to seasonality in an employment context.

That aspect has nothing to do with common employer. Their own flight crew compliment has essentially been a steady state, supplemented with foreign pilots for the winter peak.

5 hours ago, st27 said:

Not sure if the photo was meant for widespread publicity, but you think the chief pilot and captain would have worn something more professional than old jeans and track shoes. It must have made a good impression when they picked up the airplane from the Mro in Ireland.

Times are changing I guess.

Those "changes" were over 20 years ago. The same approach didn't hurt Westjet. 

Is ONEX planning to take it public again?

Another taker would probably be a new entrant. New entrants aren't big fans of taking on a "mature" workforce in terms of pay scale. Any attempt to take the AOC without the people would land you in "common employer" trouble.

Don't forget that nothing it gives you is transmissible. 

On 2/6/2022 at 6:22 AM, Tango Foxtrot said:

Not fair.  I wanted to like Seeker's post, but there's no icon

Same here!

Matt Andersen opened for Burton Cummings and Randy Bachmann when I saw them at the Centre in Kitchener about 10 years ago. Just him and his guitar and it was excellent!

Have you been successful in acquiring rapid tests? They're very hard to find on the marketplace and if you're in BC (and maybe some other provinces as well), it's now nearly impossible to get them from public health.

1 hour ago, Specs said:

After the seats were cleaned.

+1 

You don't get much closer to a tail strike than that.