Most of us here have seen the NavCanada RJ doing the ILS testing here at YYC. Here is some footage taken for Daily Planet from inside the RJ as it does its thing at YOW:
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We spent an amazing day with NavCanada testing the Instrument Landing System (ILS) at Ottawa MacDonald-Cartier Airport (YOW). We rode in their Bombardier RJ as the highly-skilled pilots skimmed the runway at 375 km/h (200 knots) and just 15 m (50 ft) above the ground. In this run, we fly the centreline of YOW runway 32. At the end, we execute a climbing right turn, putting on a great show for the drivers on Riverside Drive. NavCanada does this testing at least once a year on every ILS-equipped runway in Canada. because the ILS has to be perfect.
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Oh how I wish I was on that road when NavCanada did their testing in Ottawa.
With regards to the plane hitting a car while landing. There is a news report on youtube. The stops signs are really not that clearly marked. Not saying the pilot is at fault (far from it), but there could definitely be better signage on that road. Also, in the news interview, the pilot says he is never going to pilot a plane again because of this accident.
A Jazz de Havilland Dash 8-300, flight QK-8161 from Edmonton,AB to Calgary,AB (Canada) with 51 people on board, was descending about 55nm north of Calgary when the captain reported the first officer had become ill and was unable to perform his duties. The captain continued the flight to Calgary for a safe landing.
The Canadian TSB reported the first officer became ill in the vicinity of Red Deer,AB about 70nm north of Calgary and was unable to perform his duties.
A Westjet Boeing 737-700, registration C-FUWS performing flight WS-538 from Victoria,BC to Calgary,AB (Canada), was descending through 10,000 feet towards Calgary at about 09:00L (16:00Z) when the crew requested emergency services to meet the aircraft due to a crew member injured by turbulence. The aircraft continued for a safe landing on runway 34 about 10 minutes later.
The Canadian TSB reported a cabin crew member had received injuries as result of turbulence enroute.
The worst turbulence I've had on a commercial flight was on this same routing, coming back from Victoria (on WestJet too). As we were descending over the eastern edge of the mountains we go absolutely hammered by turbulence, we were traveling with Littletime (about a year old at that point) and I pretty much had a death grip on her. Lasted about 5 minutes.
Worst turbulance I had was Vancouver to Calgary on Westjet, I think we must have dropped 1-2K feet over the mountains and an older person (50ish) was walking back from the bathroom and fell down and his head hit the seat and he rolled about 10 feet down the aisle. I was actually quite funny
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I don't think I've had really terrible turbulence on a flight, but I distinctively remember 2 times when turbulence did happen.
Once flying from Heathrow to YYC, and there was really long lasting turbulence over the North Atlantic, the seat belt sign was on for a good half hour at the very least, with intermittent shaking.
The other time was flying from HKG to YVR and an grandma was sitting across the aisle from me, and behind her was this 20 some year old girl. We hit some turbulent air over Japan, the plane shook fairly violently, but not quite enough that people were hitting the ceiling. The grandma just sat there very calmly, kind of half asleep, the girl behind her was screaming in short bursts.
Once when I was descending into Calgary from Frankfurt we hit some pretty hard turbulence. Nothing overly crazy (people hitting the roof...etc) but seeing the flight attendent SPRINT to her seat (this was still very VERY early in our descent) was not very re-assuring.
It was funny cause that was my girlfriends first trip that involved flying and we flew on eight seperate flights over the course of our vacation and never hit turbulence and then probably an hour after I pointed it out to her we hit that stuff.
Also had a bumpy landing coming back from Vegas. Lots of butterflys from drops on that one but nothing really crazy, outside of the fact that my ######ed friend jinxed the whole flight before getting on the plane.
As we were stepping on to the plane he touches the outside of it and says "I always touch the outside before getting on and I've never crashed!"... Needless to say the flight attendent greeting us laughed and shook her head.
My sister is a flight attendant and she has some pretty good turbulence stories. I've only ever been in some once where my seatbelt was actually necessary, and only for an instant.
The worst though is one time I fell asleep (or almost asleep) right before takeoff, and then during takeoff we must have hit some turbulence because I remember waking up to that negative g feeling, but because I was half asleep I became awake but I was in some kind of paralysis for a few seconds, I couldn't move or even open my eyes, and then when I did I thought I'd open my eyes to people flying all over, but everyone was just walking around normally like nothing had happened, so obviously my body had over-interpreted the severity of the event. Weirdest thing I've ever experienced by far.
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Never have really experienced major turbulence - a lot of the minor stuff you get over the Rockies - but i have had a couple of diversions due to "mechanical" issues and one heart attack.
