City tour with Joanna
On March 10th, 2012, Joanna and I took to the skies for 1.2 hours of fun circling downtown Toronto. We had beautiful weather and the city centre tower was nice enough to let us tour at a low altitude while being able to go south of the tower!
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-> Joanna – Toronto City Tour – March 10th, 2012.
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Interesting Notes:
On short final the active runway was changed from 21 to 15 as the winds had changed direction and you always want to land as into the wind as possible. The tower kept our landing clearance to runway 21 and all other planes in the landing pattern were diverted to runway 15. While entering the flare, I decided to overshoot the runway and set up a new approach for runway 15 in order to take advantage of more optimal conditions. While turning base for runway 15 we were treated to see a small jet land!
2012 Crystal Ball
In 2011 I finally had the chance to take up my first passengers, which was easily the most exciting aviation related experience of the year. I flew numerous sightseeing trips around downtown Toronto as well as a couple to Lake Simcoe and Port Perry. With 2011 in the books it is time to take a look at 2012, which has already begun with some unheard of VFR flyable weather in January and some fun times de-icing.
My 2012 ambitions( in no particular order )…drum roll please…
- Get my night rating
- Fly to three new airports ( Buffalo,
Lake Simcoe Regionaland Elmhirst’s Resort Airport ) Eat a “$100 burger”Buy a real flight bag- Take up more friends and family
- Continue to learn as much as possible ( have some new books on the shelf just waitin’ )
Make myself a website- Have some money left over
Airports I have visited
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