This news is a little late. However, AIC 21/08 fills us in: TORONTO/BUTTONVILLE, ONTARIO REDUCTION IN THE CONTROL TOWER HOURS OF OPERATIONS NAV CANADA, the country’s provider of civil air navigation services, recently conducted an aeronautical study that reviewed the hours of operation of the control tower at the Toronto/Buttonville airport. Taking into consideration the…
I came across this post on avcanada.ca. I’m posting it here more as a “reminder” for me when it comes time to file my taxes as a full time pilot. I’m going to copy-and-paste it verbatim: From http://www.avcanada.ca/forums2/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=41875 Original Author: wallypilot (spelling and links/html cleaned up a bit) 1.Did you have to move for your…
I was able to get in two x-country flights this week. The first flight was to Owen Sound. During my flight planning, I noticed the NavCanada website was down. I thought to my self.. great, I’m going to be on hold for ever when I call up London FIC. Had to wait maybe 10 seconds…
One thing you need to do that wasn’t really taught (to me) was how to calculate when you’re flying at night (or Legal Night as us pilots like to call it). This is important for a few reasons: – If you don’t have a night rating, you need to know when you need to be…
I came across this article in the latest issue of Wired Magazine (Jun 2008, Page 50). It describes how anyone can land an airplane in an emergency. As a pilot, I was highly skeptical that these steps would work. It assumes that the person flying the airplane knows where to find the auto pilot, radios,…
I was approached by a member of the Buttonville Flying Club to be a safety pilot for him so that he may do some approaches to keep his IFR currency. This was to be done in the owners aircraft, a 1980 Beechcraft Baron 55. This was my first time in a Baron and the only…
So I started studying the G1000 (Nav III) for the Cessna and spent 20 minutes in the simulator trying to figure out how to tune an NDB when I looked it up in the manual: The G1000 does not support tuning of the ADF in Nav III aircraft. ADF tuning is accomplished through the Bendix/King…
Firstly, lets answer the question I posed in my last post. In the Boomerang, which is the critical engine? There is none. In fact, there is no asymmetrical thrust created when one engine is inoperative. The next month I plan on getting checked out in the C172 equipped with the G1000 avionics package. Once that…
It’s done! My multi-engine ride was a success this morning. I can now fly airplanes with more than one engine! Take a look at this one. It’s called the boomerang. The top down view is more impressive Which do you think is the critical engine?! My test started with a ground briefing at 9am. So…
When doing some research on what are some of the factors that affect Vmc, I came across this excellent document. The multi-engine instructor quick reference by Ryan Ferguson is just what I was looking for. That said. What are some of the factors affecting Vmc and why?