I have yet to venture into YYZs class C airspace in the 1.5 years I’ve been flying out of Buttonville. There has been no need for me to, until now. I want to head over to Guelph (CNC4) via Brampton (CNC3). The quickest route takes me just north of Pearsons control zone. I highly doubt…
My first lesson for my night rating was last night. It went well! I got to meet my new FI when I showed up at dispatch at 8:30, she’s extremely nice. Since legal night didn’t start until 8:57, I took my time doing the walk around and reviewing the necessary documents. This also gave my…
Nav Canada is upgrading Buttonville’s ILS system. No new functionality is being added, just installing a new localizer. In order to accommodate this two month outage, Nav Canada is producing a GNSS approach for 21. The planned outage is from August 20 to October 15th. Keep an eye out on the NOTAMs for the exact…
My second flight as a licenced pilot took me to Stanhope/Haliburton airport (CND4) with a friend who has a cottage up there. Departing Runway 15 We departed Buttonville at about 8:45 and headed up the 404 to Newmarket (my set heading point) direct to Haliburton. The weather was great, light winds and great visibility. The…
I encourage everyone to fill out the survey that NavCanada is conducting to improve the level of service in the Windsor-Toronto-Montreal Airspace. Feel free to voice your concerns and if you have any questions about the study they can be directed to aerostudy@navcanada.ca
As requested, you can download a copy of my presentation on Porter Airlines that I did in my Personnel Management class last night. Download the PDF! On another note, I recently went on my first flight as a licensed pilot last weekend which I will be posting about shortly.
Title: From the Flight Deck: Plane Talk and Sky Science Author: Doug Morris ISBN: 1550227653 Size: 184 Pages Rating: 3 out of 5. The author uses a fictional flight from Toronto to Hong Kong to demonstrate and explain some of the common questions about commercial flying. Most of the information in the book is pretty…
I was bored last night and decided to type in “YKZ” into flickr to see what popped up. Amongst the photos of some event someplace, I found a nice picture of the new tower at Buttonville. I decided take a look at the other photos from the same user and was impressed. From what I…
So you’ve worked your butt off (and took out a second mortgage on your home) to get your pilot licence. Now that you have it, how do you keep it? A lot of people ask me how long the licence is valid for. I usually give them the simple “forever” answer – which is not…
A few classmates wanted a copy of my presentation on ILS. You can download the power point presentation here.