I went on a flight on Sunday to practice some radio navigation work.

It didn’t go so well…

It was bumpy as hell, but I decided to see if I could track the Simcoe (YSO) VOR inbound on the 220° radial. Didn’t happen. I got confused with the to/from flag. I was actually thinking that I had the right radial dialed in, but instead I had the reciprocal. Whoops! Flying towards the needle to intercept actually had the opposite effect. Damn that to/from flag!

At least I was able to identify station passage …

I’ve flown more in the past 21 days, than I have in this past Janurary, February, and March!

This past week especially was a lot of flying. Mainly due to the perfect weather. I’m 1 lesson away from doing my multi-test. Just have to tackle some circuit work, performance take-offs. I packed in three Seminole lessons this week.

I need to spend a few hours on the ground and go through my checklists again, or flows as my FI puts them. It makes perfect sense. The lists are set up to move …

Does anyone have any information about the airport that used to be in King City? I heard someone make a position report “over the old king city airport” the other day and did a quick google search.

The only thing that I can find was this wikimapia.org entry.

Does anyone know the identifier, when it closed, or any other details? I’ve already got Dave to add it to ourairports.com but we would like more information about it.

My goal is to get my CPL by the end of the summer. That said, I need to get on the ball and get organized.

I sat down a while ago and figured out how many hours I need before I have the minimum required for the CPL test. It’s totally doable in the next 4-5 months provided the weather this summer is co-operative.

I’m not too concerned about the written at all, since that can be done easily given enough study.

I took a look at the Commercial Flight Test Guide and …

What do you use your expired CFSs for?

I think I’m going to use it to start my camp fires this summer..

I attended the “ground school” at Toronto Airways for their latest aircraft that has the G1000 avionics installed.

This course is mandatory if you would like to get checked out in the aircraft. I would really like to take this new airplane on my commercial cross country to Sherbrooke, QC. Over the next coming weeks, I’m going to see if I can get checked out.

I keep two log books. One electronic and one paper. I decided to audit my paper log book for errors and found a few.

Most of them were …

Does anyone know what the suffix “H” means to a runway name?

C means Center

L means Left

R means Right

T means degrees True

But what about H?

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UPDATE: I’ve confirmed that this does mean “helicopter” as this airport is a helicopter only airport. See my thread in the avcanada forums for more info

A friend of mine mentioned that it would be cool to have “a million dollars” to have his own airport. I told him that all you need is space to land an airplane and you can do just that, legally.

Without referencing anything, I told him that you are allowed to land on private property as long as you have permission. If you own the land, then there should be no question as to the legal ramifications of landing an airplane on your parcel of land.

The conversation ended there but I …

I was originally planning on going on a night flight tonight to Welland Airport but things went downhill ever since I left work.

I wont go into details, but suffice it to say I didn’t end up going because I wasn’t mentally prepared for a flight.

I did, however, decide to finally mount some of my early flying photos into a frame to start displaying in my office at home. In this frame I have the obligatory “you’ve gone solo!” shot, my student permit, and an interior shot of the 172.

I plan …