This past lesson was the last one on diversions. We did three diversions all by my self. I took care of everything including the radios. I wish I had brought my GPS so that I could later review how well my calculations were. My lesson yesterday was canceled because of the TAF. It was calling…
I spent 1.3 hours today in the training area practicing steep turns and a couple of stalls. I can execute a steep turn flawlessly 95% of the time. Todays flight went really well, it was quiet. I was in SMB which I know not to take the next time on these really hot days. Even…
One of the legs I have on my plan is from CYKZ->YEE. I decided to mark my set heading point as “Newmarket”. My flight plan therefore is: DCT Newmarket DCT YEE DCT …. (yes, I know I can omit the DCT) I was looking through the CFS and noted that there was an official ident…
My navigation class last night was excellent. Last weeks class was canceled so it was nice to get back into things. We learned how to fill out a NavCanada flight plan and went over how to make en route observations and apply them to the course correction techniques (double angle, etc..) we learned earlier. I…
Got this email from John Davis at Toronto Airways: At approximately 1:30 pm today a violent Microburst went through the Buttonville Municipal Airport. Some damage was incurred on a few aircraft tied down on the field. We have decided for the safety of our cutsomers to inspect each and every aircraft whether or not it…
I’ve been looking for this video for quite a while. The author finally posted it on his site. He produced the video for his daughter so that she could see what he does when he goes to work. It has some good behind the scenes stuff at the airline he works for.
Saturday was a perfect day for flying. Not a cloud in the sky and not to warm. I headed down to the school to begin the paper work needed. I forgot to bring my updated CFS… d’oh! So I couldn’t go flying. The CFS is a “yellow pages” of airports. It lists all of the…
Flying yesterday went spectacularly, especially for a three hour lesson! My FI and I did a ground brief for an hour on diversions. We decided to see if there was a plane available for 7pm – there was! So we headed up to practice what we talked about. It was a beautiful evening. Smooth as…
I came across some videos on YouTube of various WestJet Goodies. Someone put a montage together with U2’s Beautiful Day of various goings on at WestJet. A more “exciting” video is one of when WestJet retired their 737-200 earlier this year. The video shows the plane doing some low passes at Calgary International and getting…
I’m quickly becoming a wiz on the E6B thanks to my Navigation classes. Yesterday’s class was fun, dry, but fun. We spent the past two classes planning a cross country trip: CYKZ->YEE->CYQA->CNF4->CYKZ Without going into too much detail, we planned one leg (YKZ->YEE) in class. Worked out how much fuel we’d need, headings to fly,…