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I don’t know the precise answer myself. I think there is an institutional bias towards “hanging the guilty bastard” when things hit the front page of the Globe & Mail. We have seen several cases in recent years where the CAF rushed to judge, just to be seen to “be doing something” and then...

Sure. But then we have to establish that the (a CO- we could be talking about any number of hypothetical situations involving reservist conduct) CO actually knew about it and failed to act. Even if a CO did act, let us not over look the incredible difficulty in conducting a UDI in a Class A...

But, it is circular argument. If the money then gets spent on representing the CAF at public events…we are right back where we started.

Pretty sure the aircraft got painted by the Gull…

Let’s examine that statement. In a Reserve unit, where does the National Defence Act/CSD begin and end with respect to unit member conduct? Is it a simple question of on DND property/signed in/in uniform? Or are we we expect Reserve Unit COs to police the conduct of their folks 24/7? I can...

On the other hand, it could be argued that the CAF/Govt of Canada are getting a pretty good deal, with private donations paying for publicity that would otherwise cost the taxpayers…

It is guess work, but it is probably a mechanical system for a very good reason. If, hypothetically, it was a computer error, how likely is it that they would have actuated at just about the same speed it takes a human to manually flip two swtiches?

I suppose. Training standards may be “iffy” in that part of the world. The dude who actuated the fuel shutoffs, may actually have thought he was doing something else. We may never know for certain.

On every aircraft that I have been on, there is only one set of fuel shutoff switches. They are guarded switches and require a deliberate act to actuate.

We would be crazy not to be looking at this.

Not big enough? Overtime bill?

Going really off topic…when the Raging Grannies, et al were protesting Nuclear Submarines and Torpedo testing in Nanoose, the MND had to finally expropriate the seabed under the test range in the Strait of Georgia from the Province of BC (who were making threats about shutting the Range down)...

Nicely done.

What took them so long? The should have started in Feb 22…

Yet.

Anyplace there is an RCAF unit, there will be an an Air Reserve Flight. That is not the issue. The issue is that probably 90% of the Air Reserve is ex-Reg Force, meaning they are fully trained when they join (usually on a component transfer). All of the occupation training for an “off the...

The hats are gifted to the the CAF by the City of Calgary. They aren’t $9.98 and they don’t come from Walmart. Mine is made by Smithbilt.

Like anything, there is good and bad. The good is that it tends to be a deep well of corporate knowledge we would otherwise lose. The bad is that it isn’t really scaleable.

Res F AESOPs. Says so, right in their MOSID. Same for Pilots, ACSOs, FEs and SAR Techs. Now, to be totally fair, the overwhelming majority (all of them?) were Reg F first.

Umm, AESOps fly in the Primary Reserve… The RCAF does things a bit differently. We insist our reservists are trained to the same standard as the Reg F folks.