Now I have seen everything, Almost….

[Chuck Ellsworth]

I once heard a story of someone who turned the tables of fear on a overacting government bully.


He set the bully up with an underage girl and got photographic proof of the action.


That solved the problem.

[Colonel]

[quote]Is TC even authorized to seize property[/quote]

They can do pretty much anything they want,
until you call them on it, and then they attack
you for the rest of your life because you have
been permanently branded as a [b]BAD PERSON[/b].

Even after you permanently leave the country.

It would seem that my approach of patient
tolerance towards their childish silliness is
not working for me.  Seventeen years and
still going.

I wonder if I should try something different?
Perhaps stoop to their level?  I wonder if any
Canadian Aviation Regulations would be
contravened if you smeared your Booklet with
fecal matter, lit it on fire, and mailed it to TC?

[ScudRunner-d95]

You had me at Three in one day........

[John Swallow]

"John, could you pass some friendly advice on to your TC buddies?"

You give me more clout than I deserve.  I left TC twenty-seven years ago.  The last time I had anything to do with TC was a couple of years ago when I testified on behalf of a miscreant who was fighting a "reckless and dangerous flying" charge.

Did I steal?  How could an Inspector from Air Regulation who did instrument flight tests and multi-engine flight tests steal from anybody?  Are you possibly referring to Enforcement folks?

Don't hold your breath about TC Inspectors getting more flying time.  Inspectors aren't in the flying game anymore.  Too expensive to keep them proficient.  Unless they happen to own a personal aircraft, I don't think many Inspectors log more than 50 hours PIC a year...  If that.

Now, about : "...smeared your Booklet with fecal matter, lit it on fire, and mailed it to TC?"    Heh, heh.  You'd be mailing ashes....
 

Finally:  I'm with Scud.  What did you do?  (Although, I went flying one day in a TC aircraft and an hour and a half later had accumulated 5 infractions...  Managed to explain away all but one)

[Colonel]

[quote]What did you do?[/quote]

Flight instructed continuously for 25 years, on anything
with wings.  Single, multi, nosewheel, tailwheel, piston,
prop, geared, radial, turbo-charged, super-charged, biplane,
jet type ratings, warbird, antique, homebuilt, aerobatic,
formation, you name it.  Anything that flies.

Probably contributed more to aviation safety than [i]any[/i]
TC Inspector.  Gave spin training to the Chief Test Pilot
at the NRC.  He wants an ex-mil jet type rating, I'm not
allowed in the country.  Thanks TC.

Can't have proficiency and safety in aviation.  Not in the
People's Republic of Canada.  Crimes against the state,
comrade.

Probably my favorite thing was jumping into a strange
airplane and checking myself out with some surface acro.

As a TC Inspector, I'm sure you guys did a lot of that,
because you are all such hot sticks.  That can't land a
trainer taildragger in calm wind.

Safety doesn't matter much to your government types,
but 40+ years of pretty challenging flying, and no accidents.

Ever. 

Clearly a sub-standard pilot, compared to a glorious TC
Inspector.

Hey, what's the difference between North Korea and Canada?
Apart from the fact that Canada doesn't have nukes?

[John Swallow]

And slow.

The "What did you do?" referred to "Today I set a personal best and received three separate threats of Enforcement action." 

So...?  What did you do?

Further:

“Probably contributed more to aviation safety than any TC Inspector” would appear to be at odds with “…my favorite thing was jumping into a strange airplane and checking myself out with some surface acro.” 

What safety conscious pilot would jump into an unfamiliar aircraft, flash up, and immediately engage in low level aerobatics without the benefit of some upper air work to see if the wings were going to stay on…?


“As a TC Inspector, I'm sure you guys did a lot of that, because you are all such hot sticks.” 

Andy:  I doubt that there is an inspector in TC who thinks he is a "hot stick".  The day you join TC is the best your proficiency is ever going to be...  It's all downhill from there.  Not enough flying.  And if you think that the skill set of any TC inspector can ever be the equal of somebody flying full time, you're deluding yourself. 

PS  I really don't know Willy, Waylon, and the other boys up in HQ...

[Colonel]

[quote]What safety conscious pilot would jump into an unfamiliar aircraft[/quote]

One that doesn't crash.  You've probably never heard
of Bob Hoover, but that's exactly what he did at a
Russian aerobatic contest.  Half-rolled it to the inverted
on takeoff.  Unsurprisingly, the bureaucrats deeply hated
someone who was as superbly skilled as he was.

You are confusing the process with results.  While the
process is somewhat interesting, the results are what
matters.

40+ years in aviation, never dinged an airplane.  You?

PS  Feel free to name-drop some more Golden Hawks.
FernV is a good friend of mine.  My father was asked to
fly with them, but he went and became a project/weapons
test/OTU IP on CF-104's instead.  Nowhere near as hot as
what TC Inspectors fly these days, or course.  Needless
to say, TC hated my father with a passion.  Routinely
contravened the ICAO convention to take chunks out of
him.

And so continues Year 17 of The Campaign.

[John Swallow]

Fern Villenueve:  Had a long talk with him last September in Ottawa.  He’s aging (as are we all) but was still sharp as a tack.  I was in Chatham when they started the team.  I don’t remember your Dad but I was a sprog back then..

“40+ years in aviation, never dinged an airplane.  You?”
Oh, yeah!  Left an aircraft scattered to hell and gone over the German countryside…  Bloodied the nose of a Chipmunk.  (Wasn’t really a fair fight – I had stupidity on my side)


You accuse:  “You are confusing the process with results.”
And you may be confusing ability with common sense.  There’s no doubt that you have the ability, but from your comments, there seems to be a certain lack of perspective.  Andy, you don’t contribute to aviation safety by publicly advising those without your skill level that it’s OK to contravene regulations and/or procedure.  You can’t compare yourself to what Bob Hoover did…  A different  time and he took a calculated risk.  In this day and age, you don’t have to take calculated risks…

[Colonel]

[quote]you don’t contribute to aviation safety by publicly advising those without your skill level that it’s OK to contravene regulations and/or procedure[/quote]

Hold on a second.

Where the hell did I advise anyone else to try what I do?

With all due respect, none of your GH pals were ever
capable of an outside loop at the surface, on wing in line
abreast.  That particular maneuver separates the men
from the boys.  It's never been attempted by the Snowbirds
or Blue Angels or Thunderbirds, with good reason - they simply
don't have the skill.

What regulations or procedure am I contravening when I
jump into a hot new monoplane that I've never flown
before, and pull +5G at the end of the runway into an
vanilla inside 1/2 cuban-eight?

[b]NONE[/b]


[quote]You can’t compare yourself to what Bob Hoover did[/quote]

I certainly don't, and never will.  With all due respect
to your TC Inspector buddies, not one Canadian pilot
has ever had the skill that Bob had.


[quote]A different  time and he took a calculated risk.  In this day and age, you don’t have to take calculated risks[/quote]

You aren't making any sense.  Bob half-rolled a Yak
inverted on his first solo takeoff at an aerobatic
contest in Russia.  Completely unnecessary, according
to you.  And far more challenging than my 1/2 cu-8
which as any TC Inspector knows, can be all +ve G
if skillfully flown, which as any experienced airshow
pilot knows, is far less risky (for a multitude of reasons)
than -ve G maneuvers at the surface.

But I don't judge Bob.  Unlike you.

[John Swallow]

"...they simply don't have the skill."

The utter arrogance...