NavCanada is undergoing a program to refresh the weather systems/stations across Canada. The program is split into four different categories: – AWOS – Ice Resistant Anemometers – Remote Digital Temperature Sensors and Displays – Digital Weather Cameras NavCanada will be replacing approx 82 AWOS stations across the country with new equipment. This new equipment will…
I was doing some research today and came across a device that will soon be used across Canada in the Aviation field. A Measuring Device I’m leaving it up to you to guess what this could be. I’ll post the answer, and the findings to my research in a few days.
Dear NavCanada, Next time you print the Toronto VTA and VNC, can you please put airport identifiers next to airports like you currently do with Navaids? Thanks, Blake
Have $3,000,000? Why not buy this Boeing 727-200? It’s got a bar, and over 50 “first class” style seats. Avionics look a little rough though:
My original plan was to fly to Kingston on Sunday. The weather didn’t play nice thanks to an approaching warm front. So, I decided to head west instead to London instead. I took along a passenger, Sara, whom I’ve given a city tour before. This was the first time I’ve taken her on a X-Country…
This is a pretty scary video of a pilot who entered a flat spin (by accident) while trying to do a normal spin. I suspect the engine quit because the forces of the spin caused an imbalenced fuel flow. At the end, the aircraft flipped over because the landing gear snagged some barbwire that the…
So after a week of comments and research, it’s time to answer the question. This is a unique problem. Mainly because of some of the procedures at Bromont. During glider ops you are not to overfly the airport. So that rules out joining the mid downwind after overflying the airport. Because there was no traffic…
I had a reader send in a question about joining the circuit at Bromont airport a little while ago. I’ll let him explain it: On my first solo flight after getting my Licence, I decided to go from Montreal CYHU to Bromont CZBM. The MF was closed so it was now an ATF. There were…
Let’s take a look at an example METAR with CRFI data in it: CYFB CRFI 17/35 -22 .34 0201190630 In order, the block of data contains: Airport/Station Ident CRFI Indicator Runway Temperature CRFI value Date/Time reading was taken So the CRFI for runway 17/35 is 0.34. We can use this value now to figure out…
Back in January of 2007, I breifly talked about the Canadian Runway Friction Index (CRFI). With the recent winter-like weather in Southern Ontario I figured this would be a good time to go into more detail. Most progression in aviation safety is usually prompted by a previous accident or incident. The creation of the CRFI…