Articles Archive for July 2006
Interesting Things, Training »
Got this email from John Davis at Toronto Airways:
At approximately 1:30 pm today a violent Microburst went through the Buttonville Municipal Airport. Some damage was incurred on a few aircraft tied down on the field. We have decided for the safety of our cutsomers to inspect each and every aircraft whether or not it appears to be damaged. Aircraft will be released for training/rental as their inspections are completed. Please be patient as this will take some time for our staff to complete the necessary inspections. …
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I’ve been looking for this video for quite a while. The author finally posted it on his site.
He produced the video for his daughter so that she could see what he does when he goes to work. It has some good behind the scenes stuff at the airline he works for.
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Saturday was a perfect day for flying. Not a cloud in the sky and not to warm. I headed down to the school to begin the paper work needed.
I forgot to bring my updated CFS… d’oh! So I couldn’t go flying.
The CFS is a “yellow pages” of airports. It lists all of the important information about all of the public airports in Canada. It is updated every 56 days (or so) and a valid one must be carried on board at all times.
I originally went to Aviation World to pick …
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Flying yesterday went spectacularly, especially for a three hour lesson!
My FI and I did a ground brief for an hour on diversions. We decided to see if there was a plane available for 7pm – there was! So we headed up to practice what we talked about.
It was a beautiful evening. Smooth as a baby’s bum, and only a few tiny clouds. The sunset really was amazing. I can see why a lot of people say getting your night rating is so awesome.
The exercise went extremely well. We did three …
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I came across some videos on YouTube of various WestJet Goodies.
Someone put a montage together with U2′s Beautiful Day of various goings on at WestJet.
A more “exciting” video is one of when WestJet retired their 737-200 earlier this year. The video shows the plane doing some low passes at Calgary International and getting its “farewell shower”.
An interesting 9 minute video (slide show really) walks you through the career of a pilot from first job in 1993, to his current job today at WestJet.
I’m going to be putting up a new …
