Take a look at some of the things I find interesting. You just might be amazed!
There has been talk in the news recently of commercial aircraft reducing their speeds in order to save on fuel costs. Over the course of a year the savings can be in the million of dollars. As the costs of fuel rises, everyone from commercial airlines to the GA pilot is looking for ways to…
Does anyone have any information about the airport that used to be in King City? I heard someone make a position report “over the old king city airport” the other day and did a quick google search. The only thing that I can find was this wikimapia.org entry. Does anyone know the identifier, when it…
What do you use your expired CFSs for? I think I’m going to use it to start my camp fires this summer..
I attended the “ground school” at Toronto Airways for their latest aircraft that has the G1000 avionics installed. This course is mandatory if you would like to get checked out in the aircraft. I would really like to take this new airplane on my commercial cross country to Sherbrooke, QC. Over the next coming weeks,…
Does anyone know what the suffix “H” means to a runway name? C means Center L means Left R means Right T means degrees True But what about H? Click for larger UPDATE: I’ve confirmed that this does mean “helicopter” as this airport is a helicopter only airport. See my thread in the avcanada forums…
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 you need is space to land an airplane and you can do just that, legally. Without referencing anything, I told him that you are allowed to land on private property…
I was originally planning on going on a night flight tonight to Welland Airport but things went downhill ever since I left work. I wont go into details, but suffice it to say I didn’t end up going because I wasn’t mentally prepared for a flight. I did, however, decide to finally mount some of…
I’ve been busy lately with non-flying items. However, I did get a flight in on Saturday to a new airport: St. Catharines! More on that in a later post. However, you can take a look at the photos in the album. In the mean time, check out this article of a pilot who flew a…
I haven’t been doing a lot of flying over the winter months. I know because for the first time ever I have been battling to keep my rental currency (which expires every 30 days). I decided to crunch some numbers in my log book and came up with this graph which shows monthly flight hours…