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,…
Everything went good with my lesson yesterday. I’m now cleared to practice on my own in the local training areas. My FI says im going to need about 5 hours of solo practice. My steep turns are horrible, atrocious in fact. So on Thursday (if the weather holds up) I”m going to dedicate most of…
Now this is cool. I’ve been looking for a tool to display Canadian airspace in real time. Some of the google earth kml files that users have produced have been of poor quality. Not anymore. Using a free database of aeronautical information, Global Imaging have created a kml file that accesses this DB in real…
My lesson on Sunday went well. Except for the take off. Me: What kind of take off today? FI: Lets to a short field take off *taxi into position, start the take off roll and rotate* FI: what happened to the ground effect part Me: whoops! I forgot Yeah, so I did a “short field…