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Year: 2011

Interesting Things

The New Kid On The Block

May 2, 2011July 28, 2014 Blake

Air Canada (more accurately Sky Regional) started flying Q400s out of Toronto City Centre Airport to Montreal and Ottawa. 14 Daily flights in fact. Naturally,

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Flying With Heart

April 17, 2011July 28, 2014 Blake

I took my parents up for a one hour flight on Friday. The GFA was showing moderate mechanical turbulence under 3000′. The city centre airport was showing

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Local North

March 21, 2011July 28, 2014 Blake

It was great to be back in the air this past weekend. A cold front had passed through on Friday, bringing with it a high

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Checked Out!

February 23, 2011July 28, 2014 Blake

Went flying this morning. The first time in a while, so I did a checkout with one of my favourite instructors.It was a lot of

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Flight Sims for IFR Practice

February 15, 2011July 28, 2014 Blake

I know a few people who use flight sims to keep their IFR skills sharp. I don’t have my IFR rating (yet) so I just

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Common Frequency Areas Survey

February 12, 2011July 28, 2014 Blake

Ramiel over at Pilots Discretion has a quick 5 min survey that he would like pilots to fill out. It has to do with the

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Thankfully You’re In An Airplane

February 8, 2011July 28, 2014 Blake

I’m sure the IFR pilots down under appreciate the sense of humour when doing the SINNK Five Arrival into Brisbane International Airport. Take a look

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Site News

Site Improvements

January 21, 2011July 28, 2014 Blake

I’ve made two major improvements to the site over the past 24 hours. Firstly, you are now able to get updates via e-mail (like with

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Ground School Instruments Interesting Things

Approach Slope Indicator Systems

January 15, 2011July 28, 2014 Blake

I remember one time, during my training with an instructor, that I was landing at an airport. The instructor told me to ignore the VASI

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A Question About TAFs

January 13, 2011July 28, 2014 Blake

I’ve been looking at some TAFs from various locations and noticed a weird convention. In the following TAF the validity period contains a time of

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