Airline Observations by George Carlin
If you havn’t seen this bit yet, watch it. Extremely funny. Contains some strong language.
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IFR Flight Test Database
Aviatrix over at Cockpit Conversation has a great idea for IFR students. She speculates states that most examiners have a set routing/plan when they give IFR rides to students or pilots whose IFR currency has lapsed. Her idea is to set up a database of possible flights that you will be tested on so that…
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Stuck Mike: Enjoy the ride!
A stuck mike at JFK can be a serious thing. You’re blocking a really busy frequency. However, when everyone is stuck on the ground due to weather and you make a PA announcement over the ground frequency instead of in the cabin, well.. You’re bound to get razzed. The clip starts with a stuck mike….
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YKZ Tower to open 1 hour later
This news is a little late. However, AIC 21/08 fills us in: TORONTO/BUTTONVILLE, ONTARIO REDUCTION IN THE CONTROL TOWER HOURS OF OPERATIONS NAV CANADA, the country’s provider of civil air navigation services, recently conducted an aeronautical study that reviewed the hours of operation of the control tower at the Toronto/Buttonville airport. Taking into consideration the…
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Tax Tips for Pilots
I came across this post on avcanada.ca. I’m posting it here more as a “reminder” for me when it comes time to file my taxes as a full time pilot. I’m going to copy-and-paste it verbatim: From http://www.avcanada.ca/forums2/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=41875 Original Author: wallypilot (spelling and links/html cleaned up a bit) 1.Did you have to move for your…
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How to Land an Airplane.. According to Wired Mag.
I came across this article in the latest issue of Wired Magazine (Jun 2008, Page 50). It describes how anyone can land an airplane in an emergency. As a pilot, I was highly skeptical that these steps would work. It assumes that the person flying the airplane knows where to find the auto pilot, radios,…
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Safety Pilot
I was approached by a member of the Buttonville Flying Club to be a safety pilot for him so that he may do some approaches to keep his IFR currency. This was to be done in the owners aircraft, a 1980 Beechcraft Baron 55. This was my first time in a Baron and the only…
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I know NDBs are old but…
So I started studying the G1000 (Nav III) for the Cessna and spent 20 minutes in the simulator trying to figure out how to tune an NDB when I looked it up in the manual: The G1000 does not support tuning of the ADF in Nav III aircraft. ADF tuning is accomplished through the Bendix/King…
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Small Taxi Procedure Change At YKZ
I was made aware at Toronto Airways dispatch of a small procedure change when requesting taxi instructions. Most (if not all TAL pilots) perform their run up on the main apron, which is uncontrolled. Once the run-up is complete, then the pilot calls up Buttonville Ground requesting taxi instructions. The problem here is that the…
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What That Picture Was All About
Here are the details about the photo I posted earlier. It actually happened on June 24, 1918, and not June 18th as I originally stated. Click for larger This was the first ever Air Mail flight in Canada. It consisted of 120 letters to the “T. Eaton Company” from Montreal to Toronto. The airplane landed…
