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RE: Skyserice In UK

5-6 with a spare or 2 (numbers still not confirmed to us pilots). No 757 based in <acronym title="Toronto - Lester B. Pearson International (Malton) (YYZ / CYYZ), Canada - Ontario">YYZ</acronym> this year (as of today). The UK pilots will require a (Canadian) Airline Transport Pilots Rating (ATR). T...

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RE: Skyserice In UK

Rick is spot on...well almost. We have Teeside as a base as well. Those are all for MYT. We also wet lease for Air 2000 and we had Airbus's in Belfast and Luton as well as a B757 in Dublin. All the crews will be back in Canada for our winter season which starts Nov. 15th. This year MYT guys will be ...

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RE: Fuel Saving On Airbus

The mini buses (319-321) must use baggage and passenger distribution to try to acheive the same result as there is no fuel transfer capability. This weight distribution is two-fold. It provides 1. better fuel savings with a C of G aft and 2. within limits for take-off and landing. Companies cognizan...

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RE: C3000 - USA 3000 Connection

Airman99o FYI! Although Kinnear (former president of C3000) is running USA 3000 now, his connection is through John Mullin(s?) (CEO Apple Vacations and USA 3000) Mr. Mullin technically was never an employee of C3000, but rather was elected to the BOD 1 yr. prior to C3's demise. C3000 helped out in t...

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RE: Flex Take-off: Can You Explain?

GE "What may surprise you even more is that even in an autoland, the throttles have to be manually retarded to idle by the pilot. Not so 'automated' after all huh. But it's just the way they make it." To clarify above, during autolands the thrust is automatically reduced to idle @ 10ft. and we pilot...

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RE: 757 Climb Angles- 30 Degrees Plus?

Having flown the 757, the deck angle as described for other than very brief periods of time is unlikely. The lightest I ever flew the aircraft was a delivery flight (no galley or cabin interior installed) from Boeing field and we climbed unrestricted to FL410 in 12 mins. With a maximun effort climb,...

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RE: Pilots: Your Duty Limitations?

Canadian duty day rules are probably the most archaic in the world. Some Canadian airlines have restrictions based on union contracts but our government regulations allow 14hrs. duty(2 man crew) 15 hrs. (3 man crew). No limit on cycles or night rigging. Of course the "unforseen operational circumsta...

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RE: Is Sky Service Getting A New Livery?

Cpt. Underpants, your statement is quite definitive. I'll ask you to watch the SSV flightline early in the new year. Nothing can be believed until it shows up on the ramp but the preparation is well underway.

Happy New Year
GK

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RE: Airbus Airspeed Indicator

Mb339, Symbols on Airbus ASI above are: Red Band is high speed protection region with lower end being Vmo/Mmo. Green equals sign (left of red band) indicates area where overspeed protection occurs. When it is activated, the pitch trim is frozen. Positive spiral static stability is introduced to 0° b...

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RE: Is Sky Service Getting A New Livery?

"Some however, do not want to go back as they are now left seat on the Airbus...others do, so it looks like SSV will not have to utilize any British front end once our own 757's arrive." The first SSV B757 (not the A2000 wetleased one in CYXE) is due to arrive this January. All former C3 pilots at S...

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RE: HMY Airways

I said "...they(HMY) will be in the air by years end." Looks as though Transport Canada is going to co-operate and HMY will Fly tomorrow. Here is to many good flights and a long career for those involved. HMY Airways takes off from Calgary Friday First Flight Headed for Mexico, Friday, November 22 C...

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Newsflash...SLAWKO Solely Rsponsible For C3 Demise

Well well well what a lively debate. Hmmmmm.......where do I start. Having friends (in upper management) both at Canada West and HMY Airways and having worked for C3 for 9 + years here is my take. 1) "ML is a crook, who brought C3 down by overinflating the worth of Royal with questionable accounting...

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RE: Looking For QN And C3 Memorabilia

Keep an eye here and you might find what you are looking for. <a href="http://search.ebay.ca/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&query=Canada+3000&from=R10&ebaytag1=ebayctry&ebaytag1code=2&currdisp=2&itemtimedisp=1&combine=y&st=2&SortProperty=MetaEndSort&tc=allcountry" target=_blank>http://s...

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RE: "Please Lower Your Window Blinds" - Make Me!

Airlines: 1). cram passengers in a narrow tube. 2). deprive them of oxygen 3). serve them a drug And we question why people act the way they do on aircraft. Nothing surprises me anymore. BTW Zrs70 try this site and your nudity issues will be solved. <a href="http://www.castawaystravel.com/menu.htm" ...

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RE: Air Transat Cautious, Competitors Add 40% Capacity

Rootsgirl you said "As far as it being cheaper for the tour operator to use My Travel/ JMC - not so. It was a fact that SSV did not have the fleet " readily available" to do it." Are you referring to the upcoming winter program?

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RE: WestJet Coded Cockpit Door

Skyservice has begun installation of coded doors.

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RE: New Aircraft For SSV

It is a -300 and former LTU machine.

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RE: The Birth Of Zoom

Start up date is Dec. 17th approx. Aircraft will be from Monarch therefore not Ex C3.

Cheers!

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RE: Flight Attendant Uniform

Try this site. It might be a start but doubt they would have uniforms from too far back.

http://www.uniformfreak.demon.nl/index2.html

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RE: YYZ Diversions Due To T-Storms

The only oddity here is the tired, old and useless arguement about Airbus. Extra fuel is nice to have but it depends on where you arrive in the queue and is the airport (YYZ in this case) accepting arrivals? The only mighty coincidence I see here is that there are more Airbus aircraft in the air aro...

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RE: Airbus Cockpit Trays

Weight limitation is one slender F/A. In other words less than 135 lbs.

Regards,
GK

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RE: Skyservice Airline Fleet

Vref the 319 came out East (YHZ and YQM) from YVR in Feb. and will stay in YHZ doing trans-Atlantic and west coast domestic flying this summer.

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RE: What's Up With Canada 3000 Right Now?

OK. I think all of us in this industry want that. But you have to ask yourself, why would any new investor be willing to enter into a market that would see Air Canada "rape and pillage" their airline as soon as it tried to get off the ground? We are stuck with the likes of Leblanc IMO. Will you work...

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RE: What's Up With Canada 3000 Right Now?

Deedee....Hello and welcome!

Slawko.... please explain "Angus is down in the US...THANK GOD!!"

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RE: 2 New A 340 For Air Tahiti NUI

Chrisa330......my apologies it was a 340-300. I had a brain cramp and must have been thinking of the 330's. I am getting older.

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RE: 2 New A 340 For Air Tahiti NUI

Both aircraft that they are acquiring are C3 340-"200"'s.

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RE: The Number 3000

Don't forget all the time I was flying the birds I thought they looked like ambulances and the name sounded like a vacuum cleaner......you should be on the floor after that one!!!!!I'll show you guys humour

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RE: The Number 3000

In Canada 3000's case taken from This Hour Has 22 Minutes "it was 999 yrs. from making sense."

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RE: UAL Cockpit Fire- Successful Emergency Landing

"The pilots aboard Flight 275 reported smoke and a small fire in the cockpit, Hopkins said. He said the fire was extinguished before the plane landed at Texarkana."

Hkgspotter1.....not to overstate the obvious but the answer to your question is in the article and is quoted above.

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RE: Skyservice A330-300

"GateKeeper, when I made my ELITE comment, it was because it was something that the prided themselves on, C3 saw themselves as the best of the best, and with the ultramodern fleet too.....The same ultramodern fleet had engines flame out, and cowlings come apart in the air. It was more of comment of ...

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RE: Skyservice A330-300

It is truely astounding how many arm chair CEO's there are on this site. I appreciate that you are penning your opinion but let's be realistic. Did C3 fail because they opted for Airbus not Boeing? No. The failure had to do with ill conceived, poorly executed expansion with the catch all 911 as the ...

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RE: Skyservice Fleet + Summer Plans

Yes better performance plus anything new is always nice. It has(d) a few newer features like GPS, SATCOM and fully functional ACARS. SATCOM has unfortunately been disconnected as has ACARS.

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RE: Skyservice Fleet + Summer Plans

Yes. Now a SSV pilot.....don't know what happened to VXA and VXH but they were tired anyway. Glad not to see them in the SSV inventory.

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RE: Skyservice Fleet + Summer Plans

Oops...A319 when in C3 inventory was C-GKZA and was online at C3 for approx. 2 weeks. Flew it twice before the end. It still is my favorite at SSV.

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RE: Skyservice Fleet + Summer Plans

SSV has 6 former C3 airbus's.
A320's
C-GVXB = C-GJUU
C-GVXC = C-GJUL
C-GVXD = C-GJUM
C-GVXE = C-GJUP
C-GVXF = C-GJUQ
A319
C-GKYA = C-GJUK

Not sure if they will keep any of the 320's, but the 319 is here to stay.

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RE: Skyservice: YHZ-LGW Turnarounds?

The A319 is still a go to LGW. The aircraft comes off the assembly line with 120 min ETOPS. The problem is fuel efficiency. The cruise speed is lower relative to other Atlantic traffic. This means either way the aircraft flies slower and lower or higher and faster both scenarios move it off it's eco...

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RE: Canada 3000 Could Of Been Relaunched, Had Investor

I have been told that the law article on C3's autopsy I have referred to cannot be reproduced here. It is in a law magazine called Lexpert. The article is in the February edition and is not available online. Considering it is a law mag. and the concerns are copyright infringement I don't plan on cha...

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RE: Skyservice: Blue Bellies Gone?

Lyndon and Gkirk you are correct 2 aircraft in NCL but one is operated by the Brits. and one by the Canucks.

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RE: Canada 3000 Could Of Been Relaunched, Had Investor

"while you may not have directly treated ROYAL as a "cancer"". Just to clarify, I did not work in management so the term "they" would have been more appropriate that "you". That being said, I know that it wasn't as easy as just selling Royal back to Leblanc. Leblanc had many conditions attached (fav...

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RE: Canada 3000 Could Of Been Relaunched, Had Investor

"Trying to raise the level of debate? Well, we already know that Gatekeeper had 10 years at C-3, he knows Angus and blah blah and who cares?" Rootgirl, next time bypass this thread. You have added nothing worthwhile to this discussion. "In order to raise levels of debate all of you should stop throw...

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RE: Canada 3000 Could Of Been Relaunched, Had Investor

I am trying to get my hands on a law article that did an excellent post mortem on C3. I have heard that the article gives an excellent account of what happened behind closed doors starting with the Royal buyout right to the bitter end. Captaingomes, your disappointment is understandable but it wasn'...

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RE: Canada 3000 Could Of Been Relaunched, Had Investor

Layitontheline, I trust you weren't referring to me regarding childish behaviour as I have been trying to raise the level of debate here. With all due respect your profile doesn't back up your long term employee claim. Either your profile is incorrect or you started at C3 or Royal at the tender age ...

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RE: Canada 3000 Could Of Been Relaunched, Had Investor

You are entitled to your opinion. I find no humour in the repeated childish spelling of one's name. Slawko with all due respect, spent a snapshot in time, working with Kinnear. Others, myself included, almost a decade.

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RE: Canada 3000 Could Of Been Relaunched, Had Investor

Stop the juvenile spelling of Kinnear's name and maybe your posts would be taken more seriously.

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RE: Its All Over For Canada 3000/Royal Startup Plans!

Here is the final news on C3! Canada 3000 Airlines will not be re-launched. The ex-president of Canada 3000 Angus Kinnear who led a consortium of investors to re-launch Canada 3000 in a smaller form said, "I know this will be a big disappointment to hundreds of previous Canada 3000 staff who have sh...

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RE: Its All Over For Canada 3000/Royal Startup Plans!

Airman99o, I wish the YVR base was permanent but it is not for pilots. The base will close for the summer as Halifax opens.

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RE: Skyservice: Blue Bellies Gone?

Close LYNDON.....1 in Newcastle, everything else is correct.

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RE: Skyservice: Blue Bellies Gone?

12 320's (8 in Canada) 4 in UK. 3 330's(1 in Canada) and 1 727.

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RE: Right Handed Pilots And Airbus Sidesticks

I fly the Airbus in both seats as a trainer and the transition is very easy. Transitioning off the Boeing I thought the FBW would take some time but it actually felt comfortable within the first 10 minutes. With FBW (unlike conventional aircraft) there is no control pressure (due to autotrim) so bas...

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RE: A320 Question

707guy. As others have mentioned the door you are looking at is called the "outflow valve". The door is open on the ground to ensure the cabin is not pressurized after landing and during taxi. Once take-off thrust is applied the door closes to provide a small amount of positive pressure to prevent t...

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