09-23-2016, 12:07 PM
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#4241
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Powerplay Quarterback
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A Lufthansa 747 just landed in Calgary. Must be some sort of emergency because the flight was scheduled Frankfurt to Seattle.
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09-23-2016, 12:30 PM
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#4242
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Aviation Appreciation Station
Whoops double post
Last edited by stazzy33; 09-23-2016 at 12:47 PM.
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09-23-2016, 01:16 PM
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#4243
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Calgary, AB
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09-23-2016, 01:55 PM
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#4244
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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Medical diversion, just watched it depart off of 17R with some great condensation effects as it passed by over McCall lake.
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09-23-2016, 05:19 PM
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#4245
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigtime
Medical diversion, just watched it depart off of 17R with some great condensation effects as it passed by over McCall lake.
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Must have been something really urgent. If it was going to Seattle, that's only like an hour-ish more flight time, especially if you're already cruising at well over FL300.
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09-23-2016, 09:02 PM
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#4246
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Lives In Fear Of Labelling
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Stealth22
Must have been something really urgent. If it was going to Seattle, that's only like an hour-ish more flight time, especially if you're already cruising at well over FL300.
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Free healthcare vs. Pay for everything healthcare?
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09-24-2016, 12:58 AM
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#4247
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Calgary
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The airlines have doctors on the ground, and then consult with their dispatch people and what not and they tell them where to go. Pilot obviously has the final say, but I remember working one when I was controlling and he was closer to Edmonton and it was clearly the better choice but he said their company said go to Calgary so... off they went.
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09-24-2016, 07:14 PM
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#4248
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Sector 7-G
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Quote:
Originally Posted by underGRADFlame
Free healthcare vs. Pay for everything healthcare?
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Foreigners still have to pay for their healthcare costs in the Canadian system.
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09-24-2016, 07:46 PM
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#4249
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Lives In Fear Of Labelling
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Originally Posted by I-Hate-Hulse
Foreigners still have to pay for their healthcare costs in the Canadian system.
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10-06-2016, 11:46 AM
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#4250
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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Embry Riddle Flight School Cessna migration to get out of the way of Hurricane Matthew:
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10-06-2016, 01:51 PM
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#4251
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Franchise Player
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Well that's one way to build some cross country time.
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10-07-2016, 08:15 AM
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#4252
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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NASA's Global Hawk on a ~21 hour flight from California to check out Matthew, see the flight here:
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/...326Z/KEDW/KEDW
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10-07-2016, 12:14 PM
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#4253
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In the Sin Bin
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigtime
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They're posting stories from the plane on Snapchat and Instagram too.
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10-14-2016, 09:31 AM
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#4254
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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Cessna Citation flying from Kelowna to Calgary-Springbank crashed, looks like shortly after departure. All four on board dead.
This appears to be the flight log from Flightaware, if you click on the track log you'll note that the last confirmed report (from Vancouver Centre) shows a descent rate of 2200 feet per minute.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/C...10ZZ/CYLW/CYBW
Track log:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/C.../CYBW/tracklog
You can see that all reports after that one are simply Flightaware estimating the aircraft position. Had it still been flying Calgary ATC would have picked it up and the flight map would have shown the green line track until landing at Springbank instead of the grey estimate line.
Crappy...
Edit: Aviation Safety Net report up: http://aviation-safety.net/database/...?id=20161013-0
Last edited by Bigtime; 10-14-2016 at 10:09 AM.
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10-14-2016, 09:54 AM
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#4255
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigtime
Cessna Citation flying from Kelowna to Calgary-Springbank crashed, looks like shortly after departure. All four on board dead.
This appears to be the flight log from Flightaware, if you click on the track log you'll note that the last confirmed report (from Vancouver Centre) shows a descent rate of 2200 feet per minute.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/C...10ZZ/CYLW/CYBW
Track log:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/C.../CYBW/tracklog
You can see that all reports after that one are simply Flightaware estimating the aircraft position. Had it still been flying Calgary ATC would have picked it up and the flight map would have shown the green line track until landing at Springbank instead of the grey estimate line.
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Rumblings on twitter that former Alberta premier Jim Prentice, may be among the victims.
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10-14-2016, 10:08 AM
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#4256
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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Yup lots of rumours of that flying around on twitter right now.
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10-14-2016, 11:43 AM
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#4257
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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10-17-2016, 01:13 PM
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#4258
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Lifetime Suspension
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Thinking about taking an Air Canada flight back to Calgary from Toronto that is one of those new Drealiners (787). I'm not a small guy by any means, but generally find Air Canada to have pretty good seat size (excluding rouge).
Anyone fly one of these yet? Any comments as to seat size? When I look at the dimensions online it seems like a standard seat, but all I keep reading for reviews is horror stories online. Are the seats really that narrow on these, or are people just used to bigger than conventional seats on overseas flights?
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10-17-2016, 01:37 PM
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#4259
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In the Sin Bin
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TheAlpineOracle
Thinking about taking an Air Canada flight back to Calgary from Toronto that is one of those new Drealiners (787). I'm not a small guy by any means, but generally find Air Canada to have pretty good seat size (excluding rouge).
Anyone fly one of these yet? Any comments as to seat size? When I look at the dimensions online it seems like a standard seat, but all I keep reading for reviews is horror stories online. Are the seats really that narrow on these, or are people just used to bigger than conventional seats on overseas flights?
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Really liked my flight on the 787 this summer. Seats felt the same size as on any other international Air Canada flight.
Seeing the self tinting windows is worth it alone 
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10-17-2016, 01:41 PM
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#4260
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TheAlpineOracle
Thinking about taking an Air Canada flight back to Calgary from Toronto that is one of those new Drealiners (787). I'm not a small guy by any means, but generally find Air Canada to have pretty good seat size (excluding rouge).
Anyone fly one of these yet? Any comments as to seat size? When I look at the dimensions online it seems like a standard seat, but all I keep reading for reviews is horror stories online. Are the seats really that narrow on these, or are people just used to bigger than conventional seats on overseas flights?
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Don't think they use the 787 on that route, you'd be lucky to get a 767 which they might use once a day.
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