January 2009 Archives

Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - 15:09:33 ET

CYXU Going Class "C"

From NavCanada:

NAV CANADA, the country's provider of civil air navigation services, recently completed an aeronautical study of the airspace in the London, Ontario area. The study recommended a change to the airspace classification at the London Airport.

A Control Zone classification change from Class D to Class C transponder mode C required) will enable more effective and efficient provision of air traffic control (ATC) services at the London Airport.

This change will take effect March 12, 2009 at 09:01 Coordinated Time Universal Time (UTC). The appropriate aeronautical publications will be amended.

Official announcement is in this PDF.

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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - 10:35:32 ET

Slow news day...

The blogosphere has been pretty quiet as of late. I'm planning a post on cold weather and how it affects the altimeter.

I noticed yesterday that my site search is broken (most likely from the movable type upgrade I did). I couldn't get it fixed yesterday, so its still broken. It returns all pages regardless if your search term appears in it or not.

I'll let you know when it's fixed.

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Friday, January 2, 2009 - 11:27:05 ET

The omminous 200 hour mark

Ever since I started flying, I've been hearing anecdotal evidence that the 200 hour mark is a pilots career is one of the most dangerous.

I've spent a few hours trying to find hard evidence of such and cant find any data that supports this claim.

Does anyone have any ideas where I can find information from reputable sources (NASA, TC, AOPA, COPA, etc..) that shows data and explains why 200 hours is such a precarious milestone in a pilots career? (I think there is another one at 1,500 hours too)

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