Hey Trudeau, This is a joke, right? The whole southern Canadian border is guarded by the United States of America for which you, your citizens and workers pay nothing, zero, nada. If it were not for the USA, Canadians would be eating tortillas and speaking Spanish. Get over yourself, pretty boy...

(Written on 2017年 09月 22日)(Permalink)

Poorly written article... My God, who in the Air Force is that uninformed to not know that a huge percentage of Air Force missions are carried out by pilots who fly for the airlines AND the Reserves and Air National Guard. I was doing that in the sixties...which included a year in Vietnam. People were doing that for years before me and have been doing it ever since. Now, if the writer is saying that active duty pilots will be allowed to fly for the airlines simultaneously, or otherwise, then the host of issues that would pop up out of that arrangement would probably be unworkable... The answer to USAF and other military pilot retention is two-fold. Pay your pilots more and fly them more. If a guy is qualified to be a "fighter pilot" let him stay in the cockpit. Don't put him behind a desk, or worse yet, assign him to fly a freakin' drone. Another answer is quit getting in wars in the Middle East or anywhere else that last decades. I know Guard pilots who have been

(Written on 2017年 01月 13日)(Permalink)

The WTO is irrelevant. WHO cares what they think...?

(Written on 2016年 12月 02日)(Permalink)

When are people going to learn that a "Captain's" four stripes and an airplane do not an airline make? Caveat Emptor...!

(Written on 2016年 12月 02日)(Permalink)

Sorry, but what the hell are you talking about? Give me a fighter pilot any day of the week. And, I am saying this from thirty-seven years of flying for a major airline which included about twenty years of Check Airman work ( in 727, S-80, 757,767,777), instructing, line checks both domestic and international and FAA Designee. I had one man, a F-117 Gulf War I pilot, who was terrible. But, then, a F-117 is not a fighter, is it...? Other than that man, all were quicker thinkers, thought well ahead of the jet, flew smoothly, aggressive when needed, great radio procedures, quick studies, yada, yada, yada... Yep, give me an ex-fighter (or one still flying in the Guard) pilot any day of the week.

(Written on 2015年 09月 04日)(Permalink)

I used to fly a DC-10, ORD-DTW turnarounds...

(Written on 2015年 04月 18日)(Permalink)

Signing off this thread. Thanks for the discussions as well as the food for thought. Dave Webb

(Written on 2015年 03月 31日)(Permalink)

Peter. I beg to differ with you. I have flown hundreds of barrel rolls in my Christen Eagle II as well as other aerobatic aircraft. A perfect barrel roll can be flow at 1G -- it is all dependent on the rate of your roll maneuver. And, I do know the difference between an aileron roll and a barrel roll.

(Written on 2015年 03月 31日)(Permalink)

Guess my two hundred and fifty combat missions in an F-100 in Nam in '68-'69 ain't chopped liver after all...

(Written on 2015年 03月 30日)(Permalink)

??? Where did you hear or read this? Show me a link or substantiate your claim. I know some gamers came out with a simulation online where people could try to land on the Hudson and some people succeeded and some failed. But, I have never heard of any test situation of real pilots in a real simulator trying to duplicate Sully's landing and fail, or otherwise.

(Written on 2015年 03月 30日)(Permalink)