Mayday Marathon on Discovery Chan
I just noticed this now and thought I would bring it to your attention. The discovery channel is showing Mayday, a new episode every hour until 6PM ET Saturday! Happy watching.
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TAL and CFA Forum
I got word today that there is a forum for Toronto Airways and Canadian Flight Academy “users”. You can access the forum at forum.beapilot.ca. Right now there are only 13 members however I can see this growing and becoming a valuble resource. If you are a student or rent from either TAL or CFA feel…
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The New Tower
I took a few pics on Saturday. One of the photos was on final for runway 33. It’s almost exactly the same as the photo I took during the spring. There is one big difference though, The new tower! You can see it peek over one of the hangars. You can see the original photos…
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The Black Box
I’m hoping that I can do a flight tomorrow morning (I have a plane booked at 8am). The forecast isn’t looking good though. However, it doesn’t hurt to study at all. I came across the above pixel art on the net… it’s almost as funny as the Landing Strip here in Toronto.
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Fire at Pearson Tower
There was a fire at Pearson on November 28th. Specifically the Tower was evacuated for smoke and/or fire: NAV CANADA ADVZY 003 CYYZ/CZY *** TORONTO TWR IMMEDIATE EVACUATION *** EMERGENCY EVACUATION OF TORONTO CONTROL TOWER — SMOKE. ALL AIR TRAFFIC UNITS SHALL IMMEDIATELY GROUND STOP ALL IFR DEPARTURES INTO OR THROUGH THE TORONTO TOWER. FSS…
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Visual Alignment Guidance System Explained
A little while back I noted that Toronto City Centre was getting a new lighting system. The explanation if such system is out in the latest AIC. I wonder if such enhancements were due to Porter Airlines flying out of YTZ now. The visual alignment guidance system is made up of two light units placed…
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Super Short Field Take-Off
If only the Cessna 172 can do a short field take-off like this guy:
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Setting Up Your GPS Handheld
You can buy aviation specific gps units for $500 and up. These can include features such as terrain alerts, weather radar overlay, and a database of air space, way points, intersections, etc.. There is an alternative though. You can spend $100 on a “cheaper” gps unit and pre-program it with your way points on a…
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My Toronto ACC Tour
(This is all from memory, so apologies if I get anything wrong) The tour of the Toronto ACC was awesome. Our tour guide was great, he was able to answer all of my questions. He’s a controller as well as a pilot, so he knows both sides of the story. We started off with a…
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EC Radar Updated
Environment Canada has updated their Radar page to include more information on their maps. You can now add roads, rivers, and smaller towns on the radar map. They have also updated their Radar help pages too. My next Instrument Procedures class is going to talk about Radar in detail and how ATC uses it to…
