Winds Aloft
I can’t imagine doing an approach in winds like this. According to the clip, the winds were as follows: 7000′: 215° at 91knots 2500′: 203° at 82 knots 2000′: 192° at 69 knots 500′...
Author: Blake
Multi-Engine Ground Briefing
The weather was too crappy on Saturday to fly the Seminole, so my lesson just comprised of a ground briefing. We went over such things as asymmetric thrust, constant speed props, and various systems...
Your VNC Might Be Affected
An AIP Supplement was released that describes a potentially dangerous error on the latest version of the Toronto VNC. Great care is taken to ensure accurate geographical representation of aeronautical information on these charts....
Multi-Engine Resources Pt. 2
A while back I asked anyone if they knew of some good resources for learning about multi-engine concepts. Since then I’ve been slowly collecting and finding the necessary information. I hope this list will...
Air France/YYZ Update
The TSB has released an update to the Air France investigation. Some of the new findings that were presented in the report are: – A lightning strike damaged the wind direction and speed recording...
Class D Airport Closing
Buttonville’s airspace is class D during hours of operation (They close at 11pm at night). Outside of those hours it’s class E. I’ve always wondered what would happen when someone needs to land just...
Flight to Kitchener/Waterloo
I have been keeping a close eye on the forecast all day Saturday. I can see the sun shining through the window, however the TAF was telling me something different. Today’s flight might be...
Possible Flight To Midland
I’ve almost exhausted visiting almost every possible aerodrome with a paved runway within a 2 hour (round trip) flight from Buttonville. I’m planning on tackling Midland (CYEE) tomorrow. The weather last weekend was below...
Getting your .aero domain name.
I learned a few weeks ago that pilots are eligible to registrar .aero domain names. The original intention of this new top level domain was to give the aerospace industry a better “presence” on...
Added Captcha To Site
I get a lot of comment spam. 99.9% of it is blocked because I don’t allow URLs in my comments. Unfortunately this causes a few legitimate comments to end up being deleted because they...
