My original plan was to fly to Kingston on Sunday. The weather didn’t play nice thanks to an approaching warm front. So, I decided to head west instead to London instead.

I took along a passenger, Sara, whom I’ve given a city tour before. This was the first time I’ve taken her on a X-Country flight. We hopped into a 172SP.

It was the first time the aircraft flew today, so I pre-warmed the engine using the portable heaters that are available at the school. I noticed (for the first time) that …

This is a pretty scary video of a pilot who entered a flat spin (by accident) while trying to do a normal spin. I suspect the engine quit because the forces of the spin caused an imbalenced fuel flow.

At the end, the aircraft flipped over because the landing gear snagged some barbwire that the pilot didn’t see.

So after a week of comments and research, it’s time to answer the question.

This is a unique problem. Mainly because of some of the procedures at Bromont. During glider ops you are not to overfly the airport.

So that rules out joining the mid downwind after overflying the airport. Because there was no traffic advisory available, then the control zone was an ATF. Which means there is only one other way to join the circuit, that is via the straight-in downwind.

I think this is a knowledge gap during the training process. …

I had a reader send in a question about joining the circuit at Bromont airport a little while ago. I’ll let him explain it:

On my first solo flight after getting my Licence, I decided to go from Montreal CYHU to Bromont CZBM.

The MF was closed so it was now an ATF. There were 2 planes in the circuit and they gave me the info that RWY 05L was the active. One was on Final and the other one on initial climb. I decided to Join mid-downwind directly …