It’s a Wildlife in Canadian Aviation
A flock of Canada Geese did a tonne for popularizing their species by forcing the dramatic ditching of an Airbus on New York’s Hudson...
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The ABCs of Canadian Airspace
Canadian airspace is divided into seven classifications. Each is identified by a single letter – A, B, C, D, E, F, G – and all follow a...
Categorizing Your Aircraft
Airplanes can come in all sorts of configurations, and can perform across the broadest of performance envelopes. They can be single-...
Charting Your Landings
The best landings are usually the result of well-planned and executed approaches. Every airplane’s pilot operating handbook (POH)...
The When & Why of Carburetor Ice
For many subjected to North American wintery climes, the site of a surface of ice begs for blades, a puck, and a slapshot. And while...
Press Release: Unmanned, 3rd Edition April 15, 2021
Aviation Publishers is pleased to announce the availability of its latest updated title: Unmanned: Textbook for RPAS Studies, 3rd...
SOME WHATS ABOUT BIPLANES
When Alexander Graham Bell and his fellow Aerial Experiment Association members flew the first powered aircraft ever to do so in Canada,...
TO PUSH OR PULL
It’s a growing lament among automotive design buffs that sedans of today all look increasingly alike. Airplane afficionados must consider...
Leaking Carburetor Floats
Towards the end of 2008, the FAA issued an Airworthiness Concern Sheet related to float failures inside carburetors of reciprocating...
Top or Bottom?
Top or bottom: where do you like your wing? Placed at the top of the fuselage, it’s a “high-wing”. Fixed at the bottom of the fuselage,...
WHETHER THE WINGLET
Most seem to agree that every airplane should have them, if only for the sexy appeal that they add to the overall style of an aircraft....
SUSPENDED WATER IN YOUR FUEL
Every pre-flight walk-around includes a step during which the pilot must drain a sufficient amount of fuel into a container to check for...
POST FLIGHT INSPECTION
Walking past some aeroplanes parked at any FBO can often remind a passer-by of a popular airmanship admonition: a flight isn’t over until...
TIE-DOWN FOR SAFETY
In the aftermath of unusually strong winds wreaking havoc on metropolitan areas, television weather reporters like to show downed trees...
SOME BASIC POINTS ABOUT PROPS
In the office of a colleague sits an industrial-sized fan with short and stubby blades that are as wide as they are long. Turn it on, and...
LEANING ON IT IN CRUISE
To a non-flyer taking a ride in an older small plane, there is one moment early in the flight that may well shift the relaxed passenger’s...
LOADING UP IN A TURN
A pilot friend recently recounted how once, on a weekend trip to a well-known resort village, he watched in astonishment at what he...
WHY THE MAGNETO CHECK?
Every flight, from beginning to end, owes its successful management to a series of systematic procedures conducted by the pilot....
WHAT’S UP ABOUT DIESELS?
When an aviation leviathan like Cessna makes a move, everyone else in the industry stands up and takes notice. Whether it be their recent...
Medical Matters
Christoph Weber is an ultra-active outdoorsman and high-calibre all-season athlete. He also happens to be a pilot, doctor, and designated...
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