I was looking for someone to go flying with me last week. I had booked the 172R (this one, unlike the S model, has over a dozen fuel drains!) for a night flight at 7pm.

I couldn’t find anyone, so I decided to make the trek to Goderich solo. The forecast was looking great, light winds and clear skies.

This particular 172 is IFR rated. So not only does it have the standard equipment, it works too! When I filed my flight plan, I used the equipment suffix of “SG/C”. This was …

I went on a flight this past week to Goderich, for which I have a post lined up. In the mean time, enjoy these videos!

Fly-by on Oakland Airport Control Tower

After the tragic death of the owner of Greenbank Airport in an ultralight accident (CADORS: 2008O1622), his wife is selling the airport.

Mickys wife, Dorothy had this to say:

While I am confident in my ability to operate the Travel business, I am less so in regard to the airport. Greenbank Airport is a jewel for the aviation community and Micky was already planning a significant series of new improvements, including the paving of the main runways, taxiways and aprons and additional hangars, not to mention his ultimate plan to create estate …

I would just like to “officially” congratulate one of my class mates. I think he was a semester a head of me and he just got a job at Durham College as a flight instructor!

Congrats Lu!

You’ll make a good teacher.

Transport Canada has released detailed information about the new licence booklet.

In a nutshell, they are treating the paper licenses more like a passport. Your ratings and medicals are stickers that you place into your booklet.

ATPL and CPL pilots are the first to get the new booklets at the end of this year.

You can view more details at Transport Canadas website.

There are a lot of online flight planning tools out there. However, none of them (that I’ve found) focus on Canadian planning.

That said, a friend and I have been working on getting something set up (we don’t have a name for it yet) for Canadian pilots.

One of the features we plan on releasing is an interactive map where you can click your departure, waypoints, and arrival locations on an “aeronautical” aware google map.

It’s unfortunate that NavCanada doesn’t provide geotiff versions of their maps, like the FAA does.

Here is a screen …

A C-172 crashed a few days ago near Shelburne, Ontario (57351 8th Line SW, Melancthon, Ontario to be exact) there were three occupants. Two went to hospital and the pilot walked away.

After reading media reports (I know, I know..) and the CADORS report I have one comment to make about the situation.

All of the reports mentioned that the pilot reported that they crashed “somewhere between Brampton and Collingwood”.

That’s a pretty big area to cover.

As a pilot you should be aware of your position at all times. When I’m flying x-country …