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    • Buttonville Airport to Close
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      Buttonville Airport to Close

      ByBlake October 27, 2010July 28, 2014

      Well… looks like this is the final nail in the coffin for the Buttonville Airport. Armadale Co. Limited and The Cadillac Fairview Corporation Limited have announced that they will be closing the airport and redeveloping the lands. Looks like the Siftons will remain part of this re-development as they own Armadale Co. and are using…

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      Brrr! and Other Cold Things

      ByBlake October 22, 2010October 27, 2010

      ‘Tis a chilly one in the land of CYYZ this morning. According the expansion of mercury in a glass tube graduated with with the centigrade scale, it was 1°C this morning. Frost on the control surfaces for sure! The latest Aviation Safety Letter was released yesterday. I took a quick read, and I found one…

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    • Interesting Things

      Who Supports Toronto Island Airport?

      ByBlake October 20, 2010

      It’s time to vote for a new Mayor in the city of Toronto on October 25th. So the main question on my mind is: “Which one of them supports the Toronto Island Airport?” A quick googling didn’t reveal anything, so it’s time to take a look at each candidates website to find out if they…

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    • Interesting Things

      IFR Rating in Toronto

      ByBlake October 13, 2010October 13, 2010

      I’m doing some preliminary research into getting my IFR rating in Toronto. My rough plan is to see if I can start up in the spring, and get ‘er done before the end of the summer. My biggest concern is about staying current. I dug up the CARs and section 401.05(3) spells it out for…

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      Hangar Talk Survey

      ByBlake October 11, 2010October 13, 2010

      Seneca College is performing a survey to gather real-world examples of flying scenarios. They are going to use the information gathered by this survey to come up with training and flight simulator scenarios. The Hangar Talk 2010 Survey website goes on, saying: The aviation industry has always used a pilot’s hours as a description of…

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      360 Degree Cockpit Views

      ByBlake October 10, 2010October 11, 2010

      The National Museums of Scotland has put together a few 360° views of The Concorde, a Jaguar fighter bomber, an Avro Vulcan, and a De Havilland Comet. The views are pretty high resolution and allow you full 360 degrees of freedom around the cockpit. It must have been amazing to fly in these old school…

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    • Site News

      New Site Design

      ByBlake October 9, 2010October 9, 2010

      I’ve converted my blog from Movable Type to WordPress. I’ve done extensive testing to ensure that all the links and images from the old site still work. Please let me know if you discover anything that’s not working properly. One thing that I will stop doing, is sending updates via e-mail. So apologies to those…

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    • XKCD: Airfoil
      Aerodynamics | Ground School | Interesting Things

      XKCD: Airfoil

      ByBlake October 8, 2010October 11, 2010

      Are you able to answer this students question? Why *can* airplanes fly upside down if this is how an airfoil works. Or better yet: Why does the air above the airfoil have to meet up with the air below the airfoil?

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    • Interesting Things

      Flying in the North Atlantic

      ByBlake October 1, 2010

      It happens hundreds of times a day. Aircraft flying from North America To Europe. In all cases they must travel across the North Atlantic Ocean. An agreement between Canada, USA, Iceland, Ireland, and the UK have resulted in standard routes that aircraft must follow to get from point A to point B. These routes are…

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    • Interesting Things

      Nav Canada Survey

      ByBlake September 10, 2010

      I just got the latest copy of the CFS. This cycle there was an additional insert in the envelope! It was an insert asking “industry stakeholders” for feedback on how Nav Canada communicates safety issues. I’m not going to fill it out, because I’m not an industry stakeholder, however I encourage anyone else out there…

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