The awesome ATC guys and gals at Buttonville moved into their new tower this morning. Hope you like your new digs!

The new tower brings frequency coupling to Ground and Tower. With the old tower, you would only hear one side of the conversation (the controllers) when one controller was working ground and tower. This meant that you might be trying to call them up on ground when they were talking on tower. Usually this results in a “aircraft calling ground, say again”.

Now you will be able to hear the pilot …

My PPL Exam is set for July 2nd. I was supposed to do a supervisory ride today, except that was canceled due to weather (blasted TCUs and winds gusting to 25).

I’m ready as I will ever be, and I’m hoping I can get my super done before July 2nd.

I have a mid-term exam today for Personnel Management. Turns out I originally wrote it down on the calendar for next week. I only found out on Tuesday that it’s this week. Whoops!

I took a look at my log book, the last …

Canada’s No-Fly List went live today. I know nothing about it as i’m still getting up to speed about it.

However, CBC (the company I work for during my day job) has some interesting information about it:

Critics raise alarms over Canada’s no-fly list

Air Canada fears no-fly list could cause ‘unruly’ situations

The Current, a CBC Radio One program, has a 20 min or so debate about the no-fly list. It is only available in Real Media format.

For more information, visit the Passenger Protect website.

My latest solo flight was a diversion to Holland Landing Airpark. The plan was to divert from Claremont to CLA4. I had previously been to CLA4 with my FI, but this was the first time solo.

Me, looking all piloty

I love this little airport. I haven’t actually physically landed there, but have done at least a “low and over”.

There was nothing exciting about the flight. The weather was great as was the visibility. I did take some snaps which you can see in the gallery.

I also did bring along my GPS …

Sorry for the lack of posts lately, things have been pretty busy.

I’ve had three flights since my last post. All of them have been just fine tuning some of my weaker exercises as well as squishing any bad habits that crept in.

My FI decided to pull the engine to idle at 4000′ to do a forced approach. I am proud to say that I made the field. My previous FIs have always done so at 2000′ or so.

We spent some time in the circuit practicing some performance landings. I keep …