Take a look at some of the things I find interesting. You just might be amazed!
Ever since I started flying, I’ve been hearing anecdotal evidence that the 200 hour mark is a pilots career is one of the most dangerous. I’ve spent a few hours trying to find hard evidence of such and cant find any data that supports this claim. Does anyone have any ideas where I can find…
NavCanada has a ANS service improvements project underway to upgrade some of the aging Air Navigation Systems equipment. AIC 47/08 and 48/08 outline the schedule for the upgrade of the DME and ILS equipment. One thing to note, is that the new ILS equipment will not provide back-course capabilities. Therefore ILS procedures involving the localizer…
I hope everyone had a great holiday break! This was the first month in three years where I didn’t go flying once. I’m hoping that trend doesn’t continue. As 2008 leaves us, its on to look ahead to 2009! I’ve never been fond of the term “new years resolutions”, instead I use the term “goals”….
NavCanada is undergoing a program to refresh the weather systems/stations across Canada. The program is split into four different categories: – AWOS – Ice Resistant Anemometers – Remote Digital Temperature Sensors and Displays – Digital Weather Cameras NavCanada will be replacing approx 82 AWOS stations across the country with new equipment. This new equipment will…
Dear NavCanada, Next time you print the Toronto VTA and VNC, can you please put airport identifiers next to airports like you currently do with Navaids? Thanks, Blake
Have $3,000,000? Why not buy this Boeing 727-200? It’s got a bar, and over 50 “first class” style seats. Avionics look a little rough though:
This is a pretty scary video of a pilot who entered a flat spin (by accident) while trying to do a normal spin. I suspect the engine quit because the forces of the spin caused an imbalenced fuel flow. At the end, the aircraft flipped over because the landing gear snagged some barbwire that the…
So after a week of comments and research, it’s time to answer the question. This is a unique problem. Mainly because of some of the procedures at Bromont. During glider ops you are not to overfly the airport. So that rules out joining the mid downwind after overflying the airport. Because there was no traffic…
I had a reader send in a question about joining the circuit at Bromont airport a little while ago. I’ll let him explain it: On my first solo flight after getting my Licence, I decided to go from Montreal CYHU to Bromont CZBM. The MF was closed so it was now an ATF. There were…
I got the latest edition of the CFS (Nov 20-Jan 15) yesterday by mail and noticed something peculiar. It was much smaller! I would estimate approx 25% smaller when compared to the two editions previous. There are still the same amount of pages, however the paper seemed different. I think they are using a higher…