Environment Canada has updated their Radar page to include more information on their maps.

You can now add roads, rivers, and smaller towns on the radar map. They have also updated their Radar help pages too.

My next Instrument Procedures class is going to talk about Radar in detail and how ATC uses it to keep traffic separated. Next Wednesday (the day after my class) we are going to go on a tour of Pearsons ATC Tower and the Toronto Centre FIR controllers (or ARTCC for my American readers). It’s going to …

I got the next version of the CFS in the mail today and decided to take a look at the changes. There was only one change from the last version:

New lighting system in use at Toronto/City Centre, Ontario Visual Azimuth Guidance. The VAGS (Visual Alignment Guidance System) provides a combined signal of approach azimuth guidance and threshold identifcation (see Lighting CFS Section A or A.I.C 30/06)

The only information in the CFS is:

Visual Alignment Guidance System and Runway Identification Lights.

(Uni-Directional Rotating Beams Creating Flashing Effect)

It is designated as “AZ” in the …

Just a funny clip that got passed to me… enjoy!

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