Recent content by Schooner69

My head hurts.... ;)

##### 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...

##### 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...

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...

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...

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

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...

"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...

(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...

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.