This weekend had beautiful weather. With blue skies comes flying.

I had the pleasure of nt having one, but two flights with my FI in the Seminole. The flights consisted of some circuit practice, slow flight, steep turns, and single engine “stuff”.

The multi engine rating is all about procedures and checklists. You already know how to fly an airplane. Slow flight, steep turns, stalls. You’ve practiced them many times to get your PPL. The only difference now is that you have an aircraft that is much heavier and faster.

We conducted the …

The weather last night was perfect for a flight. I brought along a friend from work and we did a city tour.

I totally forgot about the eclipse that night until I was out on the ramp, and happened to glance up at the moon. After a slow start (due to a snag on the original airplane I wanted to take) we were off for a city tour.

The heater didn’t really work and the plane was drafty, but it was still a great ride. As we were orbiting around the CN …

I’m sure he knew he had enough runway when he calculated his take-off performance.

When I got my new license from TC with my night rating on it, there was an additional “rating” as well that I didn’t recognize.

It was the English proficiency rating. Here are the details from an email from the CFI at Toronto Airways:

All of the ICAO countries have passed an agreement that the international language of aviation is now English. As a result legislation has been passed in Canada to make this a new requirement for aviation licences.

As of March 05, 2008 all licenced pilots in Canada must have …

Special VFR allows a pilot to land or take-off (in daylight only) during weather that is considered to be IFR.

This is especially useful if the weather is crappier than forecast at a destination, you can request SVFR into the zone and land.

Several pilots did just that at Buttonville on Monday afternoon. The visibility dropped to as low a 1 mile in snow.

In the clip you will notice that the pilot calls up tower asking to enter the zone. The controller says that weather is below VFR and gives the visibility …

John Lee, a manager with the Transportation Safety Board, confirmed the ice — made up of toilet water, antifreeze, disinfectant and human waste — came from an airplane bathroom.

Yup! Some “toilet debis” from an overflying airplane crashed through a Calgary womans house.

More details at CBC

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I got the latest copy of the CFS in the mail last week and took a quick glance at Buttonvilles page to see if they noted the new position of the tower. They did. but they also showed that the airport beacon moved as well.. which it has not. (green arrow)

One thing I didn’t notice before were these symbols, indicated by the red arrow. They have appeared on the airport diagram for quite a while (I went back to the August 30, 2007 CFS). The legend on page A49 doesn’t …