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Do our current Hornets use LOX for oxygen supply?  Is there a different system installed on the US's newer versions of the hornet and super hornet?  The aircraft have been in service for decades.  Why is it an issue now?

Canada is a supplier to all kinds of programs in the US for the military as well as civilian contracts.  Canada has some of the best aerospace electronics and communications companies and our expertise in the field is well known.

That being said, we should be building our own planes and selling them around the world.

We had to PAY to help develop that piece of crap?  Should they not be paying us for developing the components we do for the Jet?

1 hour ago, rudder said:

'Qualified' is whatever it costs to get to an ATP certificate and the required level of education (whether that be diploma level or degree level). 

Except when the specify in the job ads that they want B-737 QUALIFIED pilots only.

There are a few of those around granted but what if it said B-787 Qualified?  I bet you don't find any of those in the wild as yet

The key word when they are looking for pilots is "QUALIFIED"  in order to reduce their costs, the airlines look for pilots who are already "qualified" on an aircraft type. If you already have 3000 hours in a 787 and the airline is looking for 787 pilots then their training curve is reduced since you already know the aircraft.  You see ads all the time for 737 pilots.  Entry level pilots are not "Qualified" therefore there is a shortage.  There are lots of pilots out there just none "qualified" to fly the right equipment.

EVERY pilot should have several hundred or even a couple of thousand, hand flown visual approaches and landings.  Heck I am a low time pilot and have several hundred of them.  Basic airmanship should be second nature by the time you hit the big leagues.

While Experience is invaluable, So to is a fresh mind.  I believe that complacency is more of a problem than inexperience.  Inexperience is mitigated through procedure and process, if one follows the SOPs properly then inexperience is leveled out. (Barring any unforseen circumstances, but chances are that those circumstances are new to the experienced as well).  complacency is an issue that creeps in, unnoticed over time and can be even worse than inexperience.

Cadet programs train pilots to a set standard and set of SOPs.  This provides the airline with a pilot that has the habits expected by the airline and bad habits are mitigated early in the career.  It appears to be a great success at Jazz.

JAzz has been doing this for almost 10 years.  The program is very successful.

Many moons ago I heard of a small outfit that put a passenger in the right seat so when they were taxiing it looked like they had a co pilot.......

Dagger:

I think a large percentage understand that it takes a large team to make an aircraft fly. Any one missing member of the team will prevent that from happening. In the world of the airline you will never have a happy passenger, which is the goal besides profit, unless that passenger has a trouble free experience. No one member is more or less important in that context. From the Res agent to the baggage handler to the AME to the flight attendant to the pilot to the Air Traffic Controller, all play their part. A Failure for one is a failure for all.

I have, however, met a few people who though they were above the crowd. It is fairly easy to quiet them if the need comes up.

and why do we need stealth? Does Canada not have one of the lowest combat casualty rates among the worlds Air Forces already?

Canada has been flying F18 since the beginning. WE know the aircraft (pilots and engineers) and we are already outfitted to operate them. yes the super hornet is technically a different airframe (larger) it still has alot of commonality with its predecessor. That in itself will lower operating and startup costs because training technicians will take less time. Pilots always need the same amount of training no matter what...

Oh we'll, no point dragging this out any longer than necessary, I guess they might as well start disbanding the fighter wings tommorow since there is no other alternative to be had.

Seriously... I heard some time back that Boeing was making an offer they couldn't refuse that included free tankers.

From the article - Last Paragraph

Boeing’s Super Hornet, Dassault’s Rafale, Saab’s Gripen, the Eurofighter Typhoon , and the F-35, are seen as the leading contenders in any new contest to replace the F-18 fleet.

Well they certainly do today only they do it through a middle man calle the USA. Canadian Companies design and build components for lots of military and civilian aircraft. Besides that have a look at some of the fighters in the era after the Arrow shutdown you will notice design detail that resemble the arrow in several of them. Again designed and built by Canadians in the US.

Besides all that I said By Canada FOR Canada. I didn't mention selling it. The US can sell all the NATO variants of its fighters it wants. We just build our own and mind our own business.

Then in several years when its mature we unleash it in the international exercise we regularily kick the US butts at and show them up yet again.

CAnada should start development of its own purpose built fighter. Made in Canada for Canada. We did it once and sold out to the US. We were leaders in the field with some of the best and brightest engineers in the world in the field of aviation and engineering. We could do it again.

Strange that the technology already exists on the F-18 but cannot be adapted to the F-35. This is why the damned thing is so far over budget. Stick with the tech that works.

I agree with that. why not use a proven airframe up front and supplmient with the F-35 once the bugs are worked out. other than the expense of spares and tooling it's not a bad thing to have different airframes for different roles.

time to open a car dealership in Hawksbury....

I still see no concrete proof or evidence that this is Man Made. WE are concentrating on CO2 as the culprint when water vapour has a much larger influence on the greenhouse effect. Problem is there is not a thing we can do about water vapour so there is no money to be made.

For every report in favour of global warming there is one that refutes it.

I am of the OPINION that just as I inhale and exhale so the planet warms and cools, mind you each breath of the planet takes thousands of years.

Mother nature is one powerful B!@#$ and I do not think we would win a fight with her.

IMHO this whole thing about Climate Change STOPPED being about saving the planet and STARTED being about MONEY the minute people started trading CREDITS for something that may or may not exist. This is kind of like trading on SPECULATION (we know how that went with oil).

There are people in high places that are getting filthy rich (or moreso) with the world panicking over climate change.

The scientists can't agree, the people can't agree, the AEF'ers can't agree.

Are we doomed? He!! I don't know. Am I willing to pay for it? Not without difinitive proof.

The world is a changing place, both man made and natural changes. it has been for thousands (millions) of years, It has been a hot place, a cold place and a temperate place. Life continued and will continue. The climate may change, hotter or colder it doesnt matter. Ther Human race is one of the most adaptive animals on the planet we will get through it.

Just look at the planet today. We have people living in 50+ degree heat in one part of the world and people living in -50 degree heat in the other. These people may have evolved to and adapted to those conditions over time but they adapted.

As for the planet itself. it will also heal itself. Just a some forests require fire to regenerate, sometime things have to be torn down to rebuild.

I am not saying we should do nothing. We should not pollute the planet and we should promote green spaces reforestation and in doing so a balance will be found. Mother nature has a lot of experience (more than us) and correcting things that have gone wrong. I have faith that she will, by whatever means, effect repair on the planet, however, what that repair will look like when it is done is another story.

I think perhaps that global warming is being accelerated by all the CO2 being exhausted by the blow hards at the conference.

Or

Perhaps the over population of the planet is causing it due to the excessive body heat created by population desities increasing.

Or

Its me after all thos Nachos and Beer the other night...

The inability of current computer hardware to cope with a realistic climate model projection was put in perspective by Dr. Willie Soon of the Harvard Smithsonian Institute who calculated that to run a 40 year projection using all variables across all spatial scales would required 10 to the power 34 years of supercomputer time.  This is 10 to the power 24 times longer than the age of the Universe

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columni...-in-Redcar.html

Forget Big Oil: the new world power is Big Carbon.Truly it has been a miracle of our time that they have managed to transform carbon dioxide, a gas upon which all life on earth depends, into a "pollutant", worth more than diamonds, let alone oil. And many of those now gathered in Copenhagen are making a great deal of money out of it.

and another fine quote.

"It is clear that, with the deep roots of the global warming scare, it is not about to go away. It has the added advantage of not being able to be proven false in our lifetime. In the meantime, the sanest course for us would be to gain what limited perspective we can (remembering the global cooling alarm of a generation ago) and proceed cautiously. We are going through a scare with many causes, and we need to step back from it, take a long second look at the scientific evidence, and not do anything rash"

I loke this quote from the ICSC.

" Nobody believes a weather prediction 7 days ahead but now we are asked to reorder our economy based on climate predictions 100 years hence"