Recent content by Zoomie

CFS Alert has millions of liters of fuel stored in massive fuel tanks. All year long. Jet fuel has a very low freezing point - especially with FSII. We also store diesel fuel in outdoor fuel tanks for the vehicles - no real issues.

Are you OFP? Have you done any of your trade training?

Plane is done with OT&E. IOC 1 May at QQ. Plane has been holding SAR Stby for months now - just not officially until 1 May. That CTV article is garbage.

FWIW - it’s hidden in the DPU. 1 CAD Cmdr stated an increase has been authorized - but only after empty PYs are filled.

NAVCAN systems are not primary search RADARS, they are mostly SSR - which means they only see Mode 3/S transponders. Bad guys don’t squawk IFF.

All the capital cities of the Scandinavian countries are at 59 N, Yellowknife is 62 N. We already have a presence there, plus a few more up to 82 N.

NAVCANADA and NORAD do not share the same feeds or see the same picture.

Defense of Canada is the #1 priority of the CAF. NORAD achieves this goal, daily. Latvia and all other OUTCAN missions are secondary.

To be accurate - the Buffalo was providing SAR across all of Canada long before we used the Herc. The Buff school was in Trenton. Summerside had Buffs. The Herc is a great dump truck. It’s not a great SAR machine. Cabin height is a misnomer as the -295 enjoys the same cabin height...

Lab pilots hated the Cormorant. They complained about it almost as much as Herc pilots are complaining about the Kingfisher. Fast forward 25 years and the Corm is an accepted SAR machine. It’s all a matter of perspective. The J-Herc can’t home an ELT and for the first 10 years of its life...

I have 5 hard sea trades working for me. PO1 down to S1.

Augmented crews permit a crew duty day of 24hrs in USAF. That’s how they takeoff in USA and land 17 hours later in UAE.

LOL good luck actually getting to that border crossing.

The only Van Isle option would be Comox. Tofino isn’t even a wet dream. Comox is out out the running for MOB West due to infrastructure costs and sacrificing the golf course. We don’t need to position our AEW near a coast. USAF has its majority of E3 living in the central state of...

I guess I used too many acronyms in my former post. We are going to be setting up a new MOB for the CC330 tankers in the west. Short list is Calgary or Edmonton international. Combine the infrastructure $$ and get a flight line full of grey planes. Every AEW plane is going to tank for ONSTA.