Been operating both biz/airline out of YYZ since 2002 and cannot for the life of me remember a worse all around service and seems to be getting worse. Over the past few months I have arrived at all hours and in all conditions to be asked to slow down on 95% of my flights. I fly into LAX, ORD, MDW, ...

Was that on every flight, or only on longer ones where you don't have enough fuel to legally make it to your destination with 10% contingency so you have a 'phantom' destination in the middle where you're never intending to go anyway? No we never had a "phantom destination." Everything was legit an...

At my old 705 airline, I believe it was a requirement of the dispatchers to check that the alternate weather still was legal at least once during the flight. That is, a legal alternate was determined before departure and that was filed on the flight plan. Then, around the midpoint of the flight, the...

Airlines use their own programs and some have meteorologists on staff. There are lots of ways to retrieve METAR/TAF data that’s not on the NavCanada site. The weather is produced by NavCanada and disseminated out to the various websites, apps, etc. An airline dispatch operation isn't producing thei...

You’re not accurate. The metars and tafs are still available. Just because you can’t see them via a certain outlet doesn’t mean there isn’t any. I'm a tower controller, and we didn't have any METAR information. I spoke to our American counterparts and they couldn't see any of our weather either. I ...

For those of you not in the know, there is currently a complete nation-wide loss of aviation weather. The NavCanada site, third-party apps and even the FAA's METAR page are showing no information for all Canadian airports. There are still TAF's that were produced a few hours ago, but soon they'll st...

porcsord wrote: ↑Sun Dec 14, 2025 9:18 am What bot filled hell hole is this thread? Mods should lock this.

Bot? I was just trying to help answer a question someone had.

Look at my past history (Joined Avcanada in 2008) and you'll see I'm not a bot.

It looks like Nav is starting to hire controllers with prior experience. It doesn't mention anything about the legal right to work in Canada, but it also doesn't mention anything about Nav sponsoring visas. If you're not a Canadian citizen or permanent resident, maybe consider applying! Vancouver To...

Bombardier to Provide Six Multi-role Aircraft to support the Royal Canadian Air Force https://bombardier.com/en/media/news/bombardier-provide-six-multi-role-aircraft-support-royal-canadian-air-force Bombardier is proud to announce the Government of Canada has purchased six Global 6500 aircraft to pe...

I really envy the airport you work at DHC, you seem like a very competent and professional controller. I've noticed a trend that generally the bigger the airport, the more professional and competent the controllers. Unfortunately, there are many of your colleagues who don't make the cut to work at ...

Here are the links to file a report: As a pilot https://www.bst.gc.ca/eng/incidents-occurrence/aviation/index.html That's not the place to report a safety concern or a ATCO who f'cked up. Follow the other links within the link I posted. It specifically says that a pilot can report: 9. A collision o...

Also ,keep in mind ANYONE can file a CADORS, not just controllers. Airport operators and pilots alike can file them too. Really? How does a pilot make a CADORs entry? Remember, no one "Files a CADORS" directly, so I may have used incorrect phraseology. CADORS is just the term for the amalgamation o...

DHC-1 Jockey, out of curiosity then, once it becomes mandatory to read back things like ATIS identifiers, or hold-short instructions (which were already required... but not "mandatory") will ATC then begin filing CADORS reports on pilots who do not? First, controller's don't file CADORS. We file Av...

As a controller, how would you react if an aircraft on final would check in with information D, but F is active by now? Would this not create *more* radio chatter for something that just doesn't matter anymore at that time ? Despite my better judgement, I'll bite and try to answer this question wit...

To be honest, I've requested to do very similar things even though I knew it was on the ATIS. I've also been cleared for an approach into a runway that was supposedly closed on the ATIS. It's not often treated with a lot of respect by ATC, which make me very weary of really trusting that the inform...

But what time is being saved? From reading the document it is my understanding that alimeter, wind and runway in use will still be communicated anyways. ATIS has its uses, and can help to plan an approach and get updated weather if you're low on fuel etc. But once you're on tower frequency (when yo...

Today, tower already gives you an updated wind and altimeter setting when needed, what else is on the ATIS that you must know? During low vis operations the RVR might be important, but if it matters, you'll ask/get a more accurate value from tower anyway. It's explicitly stated in our Manual of Air...

I have a friend who did FSS in Ontario, moved far away and then after a year of being there was given the boot. I'd think twice before applying for nav especially as it takes fucking 2 years to even hear back after applying! When I applied about 10 years ago, it was 12 months to the day from the da...

This may have been the way things were done in the past, but the training culture has changed. If a trainee is struggling, they are afforded multiple avenues to assist. These could consist of: - Instructor change, either at the request of the student, the instructor or the supervisor if they see thi...

Maybe we can learn a thing or two from them and start failing new hires out of training to protect our OT! Of course that has been the rumor around navcan checkouts/evaluations for years now. No idea if it is true or not, but I did know one trainee who thought everything was going great (no negativ...

How do pilots get the right phone number to ask for a tour? If you want a tower tour, and don't want to ask on the frequency, go to the CFS. Look under "OPR" for the airport operator. Tell them you're a pilot and are requesting the phone number of the tower supervisor to arrange a tour. They should...

All a pilot needs to do to arrange a tour or ACC tour is to have the right phone number to call.

As a controller, it's unfortunately very difficult to get permission to get a jumpseat.

In the examples you mentioned above, why would the IFR controller care if a pilot switched from ILS to RNAV or the other way around inside 'your' tower airspace? Is that purely because of the missed approach procedure, to keep that airspace protected? The IFR controller would care for the reasons y...

On an unrelated note, is there a controller who can explain if it's normal that tower doesn't know if a plane has been cleared for an approach or not? If tower doesn't know, then what's the point of having an approach clearance at all? I'm a controller who has worked at two different smaller towers...

On an unrelated note, is there a controller who can explain if it's normal that tower doesn't know if a plane has been cleared for an approach or not? If tower doesn't know, then what's the point of having an approach clearance at all? I'm a controller who has worked at two different smaller towers...