Aviation Unlimited at Buttonville is putting on a free 1.5 hour long seminar this Monday, April 26th at 7pm. The seminar will cover such things as:

Choices & Your Flying Objectives,
Buying
Operating Costs
Financing
Insuring your aircraft
Ongoing Annual Expenses

If you are interested in attending, please RSVP with Aviation Unlimited. I plan on attending.

The latest edition of the Aviation Safety Letter published by Transport Canada has an interesting article about something called Personal Operating Procedures.

Standard Operating Procedures (or SOPs) are used extensively in the commercial aviation world. In a nutshell, these are the “rules” that are put in place by the airline or company you’re working for. These rules outline procedures to follow that go above and beyond manufacturer checklists and the CARs.

The article goes on to say how we can take the same principals for SOPs and apply them to general aviation. …

I have to renew my passport, so I was digging around a few websites to download the appropriate forms when I came across the Passport Canada’s website about their new ePassport.

In 2012, Passport Canada will be issuing new 10 year valid ePassports that include a “chip” which is encrypted using a type of PKI.

The interesting thing here is that ICAO is going to be storing the public keys for all participating nations (called the ICAO PKD). If you aren’t familiar with public key cryptography, check out wikipedia.

I found it very …

I haven’t done much flying lately. I’ve been busy with my other project, World Flight Planner.

We just released a new version the other day that has some pretty nifty features. If you’re interested in checking it out, read the WFP Blog.

I’ve been doing research into which should be my first airplane to buy. As it stands now, I’ve thrown out the Cessnas and the Pipers. At the top of the list today is the Grumman Cheetah. How cool is that sliding canopy? The used prices I’ve been seeing online and …