Landing at Pearson
Just came across an interesting video on YouTube of an airplane landing at Pearson (runway 06L). At the very start of the video you can see highway 401 and 410. Watch Video
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Some Aircraft Possibly Damaged at Buttonville – UPDATE Pt. 3
Got this email from John Davis at Toronto Airways: At approximately 1:30 pm today a violent Microburst went through the Buttonville Municipal Airport. Some damage was incurred on a few aircraft tied down on the field. We have decided for the safety of our cutsomers to inspect each and every aircraft whether or not it…
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Boston To Paris
I’ve been looking for this video for quite a while. The author finally posted it on his site. He produced the video for his daughter so that she could see what he does when he goes to work. It has some good behind the scenes stuff at the airline he works for.
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Westjet pr0n
I came across some videos on YouTube of various WestJet Goodies. Someone put a montage together with U2’s Beautiful Day of various goings on at WestJet. A more “exciting” video is one of when WestJet retired their 737-200 earlier this year. The video shows the plane doing some low passes at Calgary International and getting…
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World Airspace Via Google Earth
Now this is cool. I’ve been looking for a tool to display Canadian airspace in real time. Some of the google earth kml files that users have produced have been of poor quality. Not anymore. Using a free database of aeronautical information, Global Imaging have created a kml file that accesses this DB in real…
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Down Come the Four Stacks
I read in the paper the other day that a popular landmark for both nautical and aeronautical navigation will be no more on Monday. “The Four Sisters” is an old electricity generating plant that has four big smoke stacks. The Toronto VTA shows the “four stacks” as a valid VFR reporting point. It’s been used…
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John Alexander Douglas McCurdy
John who?! JD McCurdy, as he is known, was the first person to fly an airplane in Canada. He was schooled at St. Andrews College in my hometown of Aurora, Ontario. He was also the first Canadian to receive a pilots license. The frame and structure of the Silver Dart (the name of the plane)…
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Some Pay Scales
I came across a site that listed pay scales for some Canadian Airlines. Depressing yet exciting at the same time:
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Run Away!
I came across this pretty funny video of a radar display (timelapse of course) of FedEx airplanes landing at their memphis hub while a thunderstorm is approaching. It’s funny watching the planes turn around and start holding as the storm is overhead the airport (take a look at the little group of planes to the…
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Great Circle Mapper
I came across the great circle mapper website that allows you to plot on a map routes you have taken from airports. I tossed in all the flights (that I can remember) since 2000. Total distance traveled: 67654 km
