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Take a look at some of the things I find interesting. You just might be amazed!

Interesting Things

Smoked Out: When Wildfire Haze Turns VMC into IMC

June 4, 2025 Blake

Wildfire season in Canada typically runs from May to September. Over the past 20 years of flying, it’s become clear to me that wildfire seasons

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Interesting Things

Composite Flight Plans Demystified: Combining IFR and VFR Flying

May 8, 2025May 8, 2025 Blake

What is a Composite Flight Plan? The composite flight plan is a unique type of flight plan that you can file with ATC that combines

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Interesting Things

Death to the VOR! Long Live the VOR!

April 17, 2025 Blake

Countries around the world are slowly deprecating old radio navigation aids in favour of using GPS for navigation. These old navigation aids include VORs and

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Interesting Things

The state of Toronto’s Airspace in 2025

April 3, 2025 Blake

Things take time in aviation and that is certainly the case with improving the state of Toronto’s airspace. As they say: “Time heals all”. The

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Interesting Things

NAD83 versus WGS84, Understanding NavCanada’s AIC 005/2025

March 28, 2025 Blake

Here is AIC 005/2025 for reference. When trying to chart a three dimensional sphere (the earth) on a two dimensional piece of paper. You need

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Interesting Things

“Roger!” The History of Common Radio Phraseology

January 22, 2025 Blake

Humans have been using radios to communicate for over 130 years now. Ever since Guglielmo Marconi’s invention of the radio telegraph in 1894. From his

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Cross Country Flying Interesting Things

Cool and Interesting Airports To Checkout in 2025

January 8, 2025January 8, 2025 Blake

In no particular order here is what I think are some of the most interesting airports in Canada and why. If you have a cool

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Cross Country Flying Interesting Things Training

How to use NavCanada’s Operational Information System

November 22, 2024November 22, 2024 Blake

NavCanada’s Operational Information System (OIS) outlines all of the traffic flow-related information for Canada and most US centres. It offers the following information that can

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Air Law Interesting Things

How To Land At An Uncontrolled Airport

October 13, 2024October 14, 2024 Blake

Uncontrolled airports are just that. Airports that have no control tower or a tower that is closed. At least in Canada, we have no specific

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Cross Country Flying Interesting Things

Windy For Flight Planning: ECMWF or HRDPS?

October 9, 2024October 9, 2024 Blake

To view my full tutorial on how to use Windy for Flight Planning. See my previous blog post. Windy has recently made a (old) new

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