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Air Law Interesting Things Training

Airports, Aerodromes, and Grass Strips

April 4, 2008 Blake

A friend of mine mentioned that it would be cool to have “a million dollars” to have his own airport. I told him that all

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Aerodynamics Training

Calculating G-Forces in a Turn

March 13, 2008 Blake

A while back I posed the question “Does an airplane in 45° bank experience more G forces than a slower one?” The quick answer: No.

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Air Law

Ground Briefing Study Lesson #1

December 23, 2006 Blake

Documents and Airworthiness Q: With respect the Air Regulations, what documents are required to be on board for every flight. A: Certificate of Registration, Certificate

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Instruments

How to intercept a NDB track

September 27, 2006 Blake

I am going to illustrate how to intercept a NDB track using MS Flight Simulator 2004 in a perfect world (no wind to worry about).

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Human Factors

Hazardous Attitudes

April 8, 2006 Blake

There are five types of attitudes that can be considered “hazardous”. It is these attitudes that make us do things that have consequences that outweigh

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Airmanship

The Three Altitudes

March 11, 2006 Blake

A plane needs air to be able to fly. Thanks to the laws of physics, the same parcel of air can have different characteristics based

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Air Law Pre Training

Learning your A,B,C’s

December 4, 2005 Blake

Take a look a the map that I photoshopped the other day as a reference. Today I’m going to talk about the different classes of

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Air Law Pre Training

Learning About Airspace

December 3, 2005 Blake

I spent some time today looking at the Toronto VTA and the CFS entries for Buttonville (YKZ), Downsview (YZD), Pearson (YYZ), and Toronto Island (YTZ)

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Airmanship

Danger Area

November 22, 2005 Blake

The rear of an airplane both in the air and on the ground is a dangerous place. In the air you have to concern yourself

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Navigation Pre Training

Radio Navigation with MS Flight Sim

November 10, 2005 Blake

After reading over the chapter on radio navigation, I decided to try it out – using Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004. I hopped in my Cessna

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