Category Archives: Aviation

Utilization update

Posted on 19 July, 2011 by Mike

I somehow missed this when it got posted last month, but for future reference, on the subject of Air Canada’s aircraft utilization for the W11 schedule: AC is leasing two ex-HA 763s, one enters service on YYZ-DUB next week, the … Continue reading →

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Picture time

Posted on 29 May, 2011 by Mike

I am, as the Twitter feed has suggested for a couple of days, back from Japan. (Some of you had no idea I was even over there! Which lead to one of the funniest Foursquare checkins I’ve ever had!) A … Continue reading →

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That’s one hell of a terminal change

Posted on 2 November, 2010 by Mike

I’m in the process of hunting for a cheap way to get 2,080 miles on some combination of Star Alliance carriers before the end of the year, having fallen short of the magical requalification threshold by that much. (This is … Continue reading →

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Paul Harvey time

Posted on 6 October, 2010 by Mike

Everyone has seen the video of the Cebu Pacific flight attendants dancing their way through a pre-takeoff briefing. It turns out there’s more to the story than has been initially reported. The executive summary is that it was done in … Continue reading →

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The stupid burns

Posted on 27 September, 2010 by Mike

AvWeb: 100 Years Later, Where Are The Women Pilots? Also known as, “The Lack of Women in Aviation, as Debated and Explained Primarily By Men”: It has now been 100 years since the first woman earned her pilot license. So, … Continue reading →

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The other problem with simulators

Posted on 7 September, 2010 by Mike

Paul Bertorelli has a new post up about the limits of simulation training, specifically as it relates to crosswind handling characteristics. The comment thread following is unusually good. I’ve never flown a motion-base simulator before, nor do I have any … Continue reading →

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When hell froze over

Posted on 28 August, 2010 by Mike

They call it IRROPS — irregular operations. For the flying public, it’s an inconvenience: you’re stuck somewhere you don’t want to be, trapped in a terminal with thousands of strangers, frustrated and irritated by the lack of reliable information (unless … Continue reading →

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Homemade pornography!

Posted on 13 June, 2010 by Mike

(Man, I wonder what the search engines are going to do with these airplane porn posts…) It’s the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Canadian Navy — whatever we want to call it this year — and, to mark … Continue reading →

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More filthy pornography!

Posted on 10 June, 2010 by Mike

The Australian Department of Defence released this awesome series of photographs of one of their brand-new F/A-18Fs doing some low-level flying. They are staggeringly cool pictures. Also, a very interesting view of a 787-8. I say it too much, but … Continue reading →

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Quick Hits

Posted on 8 June, 2010 by Mike

Item 1: We are so living in the future now, says William Gibson: Say it’s midway through the final year of the first decade of the 21st Century. Say that, last week, two things happened: scientists in China announced successful … Continue reading →

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