The Department of National Defence (DND) and Nav Canada are decommissioning approx 30 VORTACs and TACANs over the next two years. The ones being turned off in
The CBC has reported on a Goodyear blimp crash in Germany this past week. The item that caught my attention was the following fact: The
I think I finally found my perfect aviator watch! Almost 5 years ago I posted a “must have” list for my flying watch. I have
I recently gave a nerdy talk to a bunch of database developers about World Flight Planner and PostgreSQL. The talk went well and it was
… it’s also cool because this baby can fly without a pilot too! It’s a new class of aircraft called Optionally Piloted Vehicle (OVP). It’s
Air Canada (more accurately Sky Regional) started flying Q400s out of Toronto City Centre Airport to Montreal and Ottawa. 14 Daily flights in fact. Naturally,
I took my parents up for a one hour flight on Friday. The GFA was showing moderate mechanical turbulence under 3000′. The city centre airport was showing
It was great to be back in the air this past weekend. A cold front had passed through on Friday, bringing with it a high
Went flying this morning. The first time in a while, so I did a checkout with one of my favourite instructors.It was a lot of
I know a few people who use flight sims to keep their IFR skills sharp. I don’t have my IFR rating (yet) so I just