For airlines, electric is a very long way off for powering large aircraft Airliners are much easier to switch over to carbon neutral fuels since gas turbines can run on just about any hydrocarbon in liquid or gaseous form. No reason long haul flights could not be run on whatever biofuel ends up bei...

There are a few.

Most likely it was FLTplan GO as they are free and have Canadian charts.

For live weather you will need cellular service or if you are close the US border you can get ADS-B weather with a receiver like a Stratux.

Friends of mine from YKF area have cleared US Customs at Port Huron MI and Drummond Island MI. Drummond Island might be a bit out of the way but apparently it was excellent service. Drummond Island was a great place to clear customs. But this year we were told not to go there for customs. It is sti...

I have flown in the last few years. 1) First time flying in was in 2015 it was not a big deal. Read the notam have a backup plan and assume you will not be able to land at KOSH. 2) It is pretty easy to figure out things while you are there. 3) Pick a smaller airport and be sure it has customs open o...

It is really easy to do a verification flight. You don't even need to land in the US. Just fly across the border in a place that has Radar and ground station coverage. After the flight you enter your details on the following website and you will get a report shortly. https://adsbperformance.faa.gov/...

I have a mini 5 wifi only in a Cherokee Before the mini 5 came out I had a mini3 cellular, I opted for the wifi with the upgrade because I rarely fly without an ADS-B receiver. The wifi versions of the iPad do not have a GPS chipset so you will need some kind of external GPS feed. The cellular versi...

I remember flying R/C aircraft at that field back in the late 90's.

They used to do air cadet gliding off of that field but that was a really long time ago.

3. For high traffic density areas NavCanada is considering ground based antenna. The example he gave me was that if you have a ground station only system you will probably be ok in YVR class C, but not in YLW class C. It seems silly not to do this for the high density airports. Picking up 1090 ADS-...

Something I have not seen mentioned here is that 978mhz used by UAT is a DME channel that is still in use in Canada. The US UAT ground station network was planned around not interfering with our existing DME ground stations. Theoretically it is not legal to broadcast on 978 MHz in Canada but there d...

Not sure if the Kirby's still maintain a grass strip but they were the only real option back in the day.

I would wait and see before installing something that 100% will not meet our standards.

You do not actually need to have ADS-B OUT unless you fly in transponder airspace in the US after 2020.

If it is anything like the model airplane field I take care of I still cannot drive on it without sinking into the grass.

I drove by Edenvale this weekend and they had the stage and generators all lined up so I doubt it was cancelled because they didn't raise enough cash.

dpm wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2019 3:37 pm Now I have ANR for one passenger as well.

My plane came with a pair of 6 pin Bose X headsets and my partner and I both already owned A20's.

We have self powered ANR headsets for all four seats even though we rarely use all of them.

One of the plastic side yokes cracked a few months ago, so it sent it to Brant Aero (the authorised Canadian repair shop) and got it back in a bit over a week, totally overhauled, with stronger side yokes, for just over CA $200 including HST and shipping. I did the same thing last summer. It got st...

An external GPS can improve things quite a bit.

I window mount the Stratux so it always has a good quality GPS signal and I dont have to wait for the ipad to get a lock if it has been put to sleep.

That shi guy spammed the crap out of every vaguely aviation related sub reddit last year.

He didn't really have a good grasp of how to provide evidence and eventually his activity earned him a sitewide ban for spam.

I have previously paid the cellular tax but decided that this time I'll live without the built in GPS. My plane has a Stratux and FS210 so I have two different GPS position sources. If I am flying in someone else's plane my iPhone is good enough to know where we are. The price difference is not as m...

https://www.apple.com/ipad-mini/

Nice to see an update on this line. I was a bit worried that they would just discontinue it.

My mini 3 is about 5 years old and the battery is getting long in the tooth and beginning to effect performance.

This is Nav Canada. They are a private company run on user fees.

Maintaining old radar sites and nav aids are expensive so they are moving to a system that pushes the costs onto the user.

If you do not go into transponder airspace an ADS-B mandate wont cost you a dime.

Foreflight does this if you have the pro version. It has an altitude advisor with selectable corridor widths and required obstacle clearance.

https://foreflight.com/products/forefli ... avoidance/