There was a fire at Pearson on November 28th. Specifically the Tower was evacuated for smoke and/or fire:
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Today would be a perfect day for my necessary long x-country. Alas, work beckons me.
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The ceilings were too low yesterday to do the pre-flightest work. So I decided to do some circuits and practice various types landings and take-offs.
I'm trying to spend a few days each week going ov
You can buy aviation specific gps units for $500 and up. These can include features such as terrain alerts, weather radar overlay, and a database of air space, way points, intersections, etc..
There
There are two main reasons why I cant get my arse out there to finish the last little bit of things I need to get for my licence.
Weather
This has had to have been the crappiest and wettest fal
(This is all from memory, so apologies if I get anything wrong)
The tour of the Toronto ACC was awesome. Our tour guide was great, he was able to answer all of my questions. He's a controller as well
My flight on the weekend was the worst. I hadn't been flying in quite a while so I elected to make this flight a review and not the "mock test" flight.
I told my FI that I wanted to review forced app
I got the next version of the CFS in the mail today and decided to take a look at the changes. There was only one change from the last version:
New lighting system in use at Toronto/City Centre, Onta
I decided to take the day off work on Friday and attempt my long X-Country trip that I needed to do as a requirement f
Environment Canada has updated their Radar page to include more information on their maps.
You can now add roads, rivers,