Wired has short but cool article about these “tubular clouds” that form in Queensland every fall. Not sure if they mean Southern Hemisphere fall, or Northern Hemisphere fall. These long, crazy-looking clouds can grow to be 600 miles long and can move at up to 35 miles per hour, causing problems for aircraft even on…
The Toronto Star is reporting that Porter would like to build a tunnel connecting the island airport with the mainland. The tunnel would be 8 metres wide, 4 metres high and outfitted with moving sidewalks for passengers of upstart Porter Airlines, which began flying from the airport in 2006. So, the tunnel would only accommodate…
In an attempt to bring more women in to the world of Air Traffic Controllers, Air Traffic Control the Netherlands is hosting a Girls Only event at their Schiphol tower. Essentially its an open house where girls get to ask questions about the profession, see how and what the ATC controller do, etc.. You can…
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UPDATE: The Globe and Mail has an article pretty much confirming the selling/moving of the airport. In the latest development with Buttonville, yorkregion.com is reporting that the Siftons may move Buttonville to a new location. The owners of Buttonville airport are considering moving the airport from its prominent Hwy. 404 location to keep it running….
I’m looking for raster elevation data for Canada for a project I’m working on. I’ve been using NASAs SRTM 3 data in the meantime. The problem? It doesn’t cover latitudes above 60° I took a look at the CDED data from Geobase, however the time it takes me to query that data for elevation data…
CBC is reporting that the Lockerbie bomber might be released on compassionate grounds. What are your thoughts about this? Should he be released?
The cross Canada flight to celebrate 100 years of flight in Canada wrapped up this past weekend. You can read John Lovelaces’ blog about the flight on the CBC website.
I’ve been spending all morning trying to find information on getting a dispatchers license. All I could find was the Dispatcher Examination page on Transport Canadas website. Is that’s all there is to it? Just write the exams and you’re done? On another note. I’m going to be getting my logbook in order this week….
The flight started by having Doug pick me up at CYTZ. This was the first time I’ve ever been at the island airport. Few things of note: – Build a friggen bridge already! Is the 30 second ferry ride even necessary? All of those of you who voted David Miller as mayor of Toronto should…