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    • Interesting Things

      The Original de Havilland Beaver!

      ByBlake February 24, 2009

      One of my colleagues at work found a family photo of what is believed to be the first ever production Beaver. An article about “the bush plane” has been written by him (He does work for CBC News) and is a great read if you are interested in the history of one of Canada’s iconic…

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      Airspace Change Meetings

      ByBlake February 18, 2009

      Transport Canada is presenting its changes to the Windsor-Toronto-Montreal corridor at a number of locations in Feb and March. It is the topic of tonight’s Monthly Aviation Seminar at the Transport Canada HQ in Toronto. The presentation will also be made available at Buttonville, March 11 @ 19:00. Hanger 12 in the Leggat Aviation facilities….

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      Sirius XM Experiencing Turbulence

      ByBlake February 12, 2009

      I saw this article yesterday and the first thing I thought about was “what about all the GA pilots out there?!?” XM Weather is a product provided by XM that allows you to stream weather data to various avionics as well as computers used on marine ships. The scope of the bankrupcy is only for…

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    • Interesting Things

      Massive Changes to Toronto Airspace

      ByBlake February 10, 2009

      I just got details of the changes to Torontos Airspace, which are Effective March 12, 2009. The PDFs contain all the details you know. Some highlights: The Buttonville and Toronto City Centre control zones will be expanded to meet along Lawrence Ave, between Yonge Street and Victoria Park Ave. Both control zones will now extend…

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    • Site News

      Re-evaluating The Situation

      ByBlake February 10, 2009

      I’m still alive and well. I’ve been busy with some life events lately that have taken priority over flying and posting to this blog. I normally try to keep my personal life out of this blog, but I have made an exception here. Things have changed quite a bit over the past three years since…

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    • Interesting Things | Training

      CYXU Going Class “C”

      ByBlake January 14, 2009

      From NavCanada: NAV CANADA, the country’s provider of civil air navigation services, recently completed an aeronautical study of the airspace in the London, Ontario area. The study recommended a change to the airspace classification at the London Airport. A Control Zone classification change from Class D to Class C transponder mode C required) will enable…

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    • Site News

      Slow news day…

      ByBlake January 14, 2009

      The blogosphere has been pretty quiet as of late. I’m planning a post on cold weather and how it affects the altimeter. I noticed yesterday that my site search is broken (most likely from the movable type upgrade I did). I couldn’t get it fixed yesterday, so its still broken. It returns all pages regardless…

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    • Interesting Things | Training

      The omminous 200 hour mark

      ByBlake January 2, 2009

      Ever since I started flying, I’ve been hearing anecdotal evidence that the 200 hour mark is a pilots career is one of the most dangerous. I’ve spent a few hours trying to find hard evidence of such and cant find any data that supports this claim. Does anyone have any ideas where I can find…

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    • Interesting Things | Training

      Schedule For DME/ILS Replacements

      ByBlake December 29, 2008

      NavCanada has a ANS service improvements project underway to upgrade some of the aging Air Navigation Systems equipment. AIC 47/08 and 48/08 outline the schedule for the upgrade of the DME and ILS equipment. One thing to note, is that the new ILS equipment will not provide back-course capabilities. Therefore ILS procedures involving the localizer…

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      2009 Goals

      ByBlake December 28, 2008

      I hope everyone had a great holiday break! This was the first month in three years where I didn’t go flying once. I’m hoping that trend doesn’t continue. As 2008 leaves us, its on to look ahead to 2009! I’ve never been fond of the term “new years resolutions”, instead I use the term “goals”….

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