Title: From the Flight Deck: Plane Talk and Sky Science

Author: Doug Morris

ISBN: 1550227653

Size: 184 Pages

Rating: 3 out of 5.

The author uses a fictional flight from Toronto to Hong Kong to demonstrate and explain some of the common questions about commercial flying. Most of the information in the book is pretty basic that most private pilots (such as my self) would already know. The books audience is tailored to the infrequent flyer.

The title of the book is a little misleading, there is hardly any science at all, if not none. Most …

I was bored last night and decided to type in “YKZ” into flickr to see what popped up. Amongst the photos of some event someplace, I found a nice picture of the new tower at Buttonville.

I decided take a look at the other photos from the same user and was impressed. From what I can tell he is probably the pilot or crew that works in the CTV Helicopter that I see buzzing around all over the place. With a name like News46, I can only assume.

New Tower at Buttonville

City …

So you’ve worked your butt off (and took out a second mortgage on your home) to get your pilot licence. Now that you have it, how do you keep it?

A lot of people ask me how long the licence is valid for. I usually give them the simple “forever” answer – which is not entirely true.

CAR 401.05 has all the details about Recency Requirements for your PPL (you can also see a “plain language” version at the AIM). I have distilled them below:

In order to keep your licence you have …

A few classmates wanted a copy of my presentation on ILS.

You can download the power point presentation here.

First of all, I would like to thank everyone (again) that wished me good luck and congratulated me on passing.

I received a comment from someone named “kkjlai” who wanted to know more about the exam. So this post is all about that.

The weather was good. Visibility was alright, although at some times there really was no defined horizon (especially to the south). It was bumpy however, plenty of thermals. The exam took a total of 4 hours, which included pre-flight stuff, actual air work, and a debriefing.

Take a look at …

Thanks to everyone that wished me luck on my check ride today. I passed!

Just have to take care of some paper work with my FI tomorrow. This includes syncing up my paper log book with my PTR. Pain in the butt.

It was a bumpy day, but that didn’t stop me from doing well with all of the exercises. The debriefing with the FTE pointed out some areas I need to work on. All in all though, everything went well.

So whats next?

I’m going to be working on getting my night rating, …

The weather tomorrow is looking good for my PPL test.

I spent some time today with my FI reviewing a couple of items and I’m going to study some ground items tonight.

Hopefully I will get some sleep tonight, and be refreshed for the exam tomorrow.

With the new tower the ATIS information is now automated. By that, I mean a computerized voice reads out the ATIS information really, really, slowly. Previously the controllers had to record the AITS message and would usually do so at a decent pace.

I have the rest of …