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Nope, no library and no data bank - we approach each flight, leg or mission in its own merits.  The Aircraft Commander will then take all available geographic and ambient data and calculate his max weight, climb capability (3 and 4 engine) and performance specs etc .... FAR is American (I'm...

And it snowed constantly back then on that bi-directional walk uphill .... both ways, constantly, even in summer. Luxury ........! We used to live in a cardboard box, in the middle of a road, my Dad would feed us gravel ......... What a bunch of old farts we've become!!  :o ;D The only thing...

You could not pay me enough to get on board one of those things operated by one of those companies. I took a flight from Zagreb down to Split in the back of something that was maintained and operated in a similar fashion back in '95 that some fly-by-night contractor to the UN was flying.  The...

Things may be a little delayed with CA-2. The aircraft itself is fine. The issue is the fact that fuselage 179, right in front of us that is destined for Dover AFB, was delayed coming off the production line by two weeks.  This has had an obvious downstream impact on our aircraft, fuselage 180...

Gramps: You forgot about the approach lights to Rwy 06 that they went careening through as they lost their brakes on a rejected takeoff from Rwy 24 .... xmas '95 as I recall. Had it not been for the mud and steel approach lighting they would have ended up in the MacDonalds parking lot. These...

Steve: We use CFL, Critical Field Length for our TOLD calculations. We use DeRated Thrust (DRT) takeoffs when we can, but if unable then we go for a Max Thrust takeoff. Flex Temp is an airbus thing from what I understand - we don't use it. There's plenty of power on the engines thats for sure...

SHERPA and Screamer have only been trialled as CDS (rigged and dropped as CDS) right now. Yes - all this stuff is dropped as "Heavy Equipment" but it is not extracted from the aircraft using LAPES procedures or rigging. This can be rigged as HE for the C-17, or rigged as HE but dropped using...

The C-17 has been "trialled" for LAPES and has been certified for LAPES by Boeing.  It is also a capability of the aircrat - it is capable of doing LAPES and it exists in a checklist, however it has never flown LAPES by any military crew from either the USAF or the CF.  It is a delivery process...

BD: You are absolutely correct.  This was the last LAPES mission that we, the CF, have flown.  Both the Cdns and the USAF have ceased flying LAPES - the techniques is simply too dangerous and too many aircraft have been lost to accidents with either the extraction system malfunctions or to...

Gramps You are absolutely correct.  The thinner (less dense) the air is, the worse the aircraft will perform in terms of thrust produced by the engines, takeoff run and climb capability.  So, the higher the pressure altitude is and the hotter the ambient temperature is = the worse the aircraft...

Yes it will ... however there is a small issue of the pressure, the pounds per square inch, "PSI". Right now, although the bulk weight of the Leopard is not a showstopper for us (we can easily accommodate the tank for both weight and size), the ratio of total weight to square inch, the...

Yes this is rather disturbing. I saw this on The National last night. It seems to be a Catch 22 situation. Damned if you continue the upgrades and damned if you don't. I think there will be some steep penalties to pay to cancel the remaining phases of the AIMP contract. A scary time to be in...

IHS: We'll be "receiving" more people with this second aircraft.  The folks currently in the USA on the second phase of embedded seasoing with the USAF will be returning (repatriating) at the end of Oct to be additional crews for the second aircraft - this is for both aircrew and maintainer. ...

Our second aircraft is off the assembly line and out of the paint shop. Here is a quick snapshot of it undergoing some final preparation before it begins the acceptance test flight protocols. Delivery is still scheduled for Oct 11th.

Typically during AR, the fuel that comes down the boom at you costs 9 times more than it costs to pump it straight out of the ground.

Discussion and answers found here:............... http://forums.army.ca/forums/threads/64555.0.html Full discussions on Air Refuelling, among other things, found here: ........... http://forums.army.ca/forums/threads/54089.0.html Enjoy.

40% and perhaps a little bit more of current cockpit allocations are for rotary wing. I wouldn't come into the training program with a "fixed wing" only attitude - you stand a 40% chance of being disappointed. Out of the the fixed wing selection slots only a small percentage are selected for...

Oops - I shouldn't have called it the RAF Heritage Flight. It is actually called the RAF Battle Of Britain Memorial Flight. Checkout their website at http://www.bbmf.co.uk/ They keep and incredible inventory of WW2 aircraft flying for airshows etc .... and the aircraft are kept and maintained...

Not yet - soon though.

This will be about the only time when I say "Short and fat is sexy". We were thinking of putting that on the Sqn patch .................