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  1. You have a right to your own opinion and a right to express that opinion. But you are accountable. If by expressing your opinion, harm or injury is the result, you should be held responsible. I'm not referring to someone being offended or insulted - but actual harm. As in yelling "Fire" as a joke in a crowd that causes people to be hurt. With freedom comes responsibility and accountability. This logic can also apply to making a false statement for the purpose of maligning a person or organization; defamation, especially if you knew it was a lie or not based in fact. It is not defamation if a statement is factually true.
  2. Curiouser and curiouser = https://www.castanet.net/news/Vernon/441898/Helicopter-seen-on-top-of-dam-landing-at-Kal-Lake-beach-on-day-of-crash
  3. https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/343512?fbclid=IwAR2ZSFAciR3XH9M4HCgH9HraLZT15oC4O2YOVyRlnM0vYSvzJYsTZ2xguSo
  4. Forest fire agencies across Canada have been looking for helicopters for weeks. Good luck.
  5. If you think that meeting Transport Canada's aviation regulations and standards is all that it takes to create a reasonable level of safety, then your standards are pretty low. You may be safe from regulatory infractions, but is that enough? Customers such as utilities, fire agencies and other sophisticated users have long recognized that simply meeting CAR's is woefully inadequate from a safety perspective. This point of view is supported by the myriad of recommendations from the TSB that TC has ignored. This is especially true for specialty flight operations typical in 702 Aerial Work. I don't blame the customer for recognizing inadequate safety standards and attempting to raise the bar to a higher level. And don't forget, if they make abiding by their higher standards a condition of hire and contract, then ignoring them is grounds to terminate that contract.
  6. The current situation is based on the report of August 15, 2012 authored by Captain Dan Adamus, (President - Air Line Pilots Association International’s Canada Board), and Jacqueline Booth, (Chief, Technical Program Evaluation and Coordination, Standards, TCCA) who co-chaired the Flight Crew Fatigue Management Working Group. That group consisted of representatives from: 1. Air Canada Pilots Association (ACPA) 2. Airline Pilots Association (ALPA) 3. Air Transport Association Canada (ATAC) 4. Helicopter Association of Canada (HAC) 5. Manitoba Aviation Council (MAC) 6. National Airlines Council of Canada (NACC) 7. Northern Air Transport Association (NATA) 8. Canadian Business Aircraft Association (CBAA) 9. Teamsters (Canada) 10. Transport Canada Civil Aviation (TCCA) 11. West Jet Pilots Association (WJPA) The two authors declined to include any dissenting opinions from working group members when preparing the final report. All the working group members that were not aligned with airline pilots dissented. The dissenting working group members and other groups formed a coalition that urged the CARC Working Group Report be rejected. On January 31, 2013, a 13-page dissenting document was submitted that stated, “Not only are the recommendations a retrograde step for safety, but if they were to proceed to implementation, they would devastate many Canadian commercial and business aviation operators and the businesses and passengers they serve.” The coalition consisted of: 1. Air Transport Association of Canada (ATAC) 2. Association quĂ©bĂ©coise du transport aĂ©rien (AQTA) 3. Aviation Alberta (AA) 4. British Columbia Aviation Council (BCAC) 5. Canadian Business Aviation Association (CBAA) 6. Helicopter Association of Canada (HAC) 7. Manitoba Aviation Council (MAC) 8. Northern Air Transport Association (NATA) 9. Saskatchewan Aviation Council (SAC) Then they issued a 158-page report published on October 17, 2014. The coalition recommended that a new Working Group be convened under new leadership with Chairs prepared to give serious consideration to industry segment-specific solutions suitable for other parts of the commercial and business aviation communities. Much of what was in that dissenting report is proving to be very prophetic today.
  7. That came after a direct meeting between a TC official and provincial agency members of the CIFFC Aviation Working Group. Their approach paralleled the same information that was coming from HAC and NATA.
  8. They want 4.5 per cent for 2021, 2022, and 2023, totalling 13.6 for the last 3 years. They are still negotiating for their 'current' contract.
  9. I imagine more of these will appear. Strike - notice to stakeholders -- Message aux intervenants - grÃve 2023.pdf
  10. From what I have heard it is yes for their unionized employees, however some are designated 'essential' and thus cannot go out on strike, but I can only guess who those may be.
  11. And the current Director General Civil Aviation just came from being the Director of "Standards Branch"!
  12. I wonder what document TC is intending to use to substantiate the purpose of a flight (to identify whether it is 702, 703 or possibly both) . Journey log entries do not include that information. There should be a manifest somewhere that lists passengers, cargo weights and dangerous goods, that might help. So, the customer would have to be consulted to determine why the aircraft was hired and to what it was assigned. Complicated? Yup!
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