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    Caravan Down: Lake Erie Accident

    My head hurts.... ;)
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    Caravan Down: Lake Erie Accident

    ##### posted: "So... if you consider only commercial IFR 704 or 705 ops, single engine aircraft have quite a miserable track record in their short presence here in Canada." COMMENT I don't have access to those stats and it would be interesting to know how the SEs stack up against the TEs...
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    Caravan Down: Lake Erie Accident

    ##### posted: (in blue) "You are assuming that the "market place" is defined by the operator. Its not. It is defined by the end user...the passenger." I concur and I was not assuming anything...the market place IS the end user, not the operator. That is whom I meant. "These "people" you...
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    Caravan Down: Lake Erie Accident

    CTD posted: [I]"I don’t think that single-engined ANYTHING should be allowed to fly commercial passengers in IMC, period. My humble opinion. Where I have a bigger problem is with single pilot, and that’s worse when coupled with single engine. How this ever got through regulation is beyond...
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    Caravan Down: Lake Erie Accident

    I took this off a website I found through GOOGLE. There were many like it....just go in and type something like "accident rates single engine twin engine". "In Canada, in operations with 58 Caravans, 14 PC12s and 2 TBM700s and with a fleet total since 1993 of approximately 175,000 hours...
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    The Lurker

    I don't think that was the "trailer"; I think that WAS the movie. Don't know what the point of 'er is though..
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    What The ?

    N2: if you're going the simulator route (ie FSI) you won't have a problem. Their courses are designed to take you in the front door knowing zip about the aircraft and send you out the back door some 10 - 21 days later feeling very comfortable with the aircraft. I know that following my KA 200...
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    Pilots Recruitment

    "then direct to Moose Jaw on the Harvard II." Ironman 2909: give it all you've got and enjoy the ride as you go. A little check of my logbook reveals that Lesson Plan No 1 (Famil) was completed in Harvard 368 on 11 Feb 58 with Flying Officer Laurie Friesen instructing and myself in the front...
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    Risk Management,Pilots

    (I know this is going to get me in trouble big time, but I''m feeling like the bar room mouse..) Charles...if you ever get the wherewithall to purchase a Harley, consider this: of all the HDs that were ever produced, over 95 percent are still on the road. The other 5 percent made it home...
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    Logging >>> IFR TIME

    Needles Split: short answer is yes. At least in my definition: "flight without visual reference to the ground" is "on instruments" and as such is loggable.
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