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Nav Canada to End Telephone ATIS Service

Nav Canada has announced that telephone-based ATIS (Automated Terminal Information Service) will be discontinued early in 2025. The air traffic control service provider blames the service reduction on its telephone service provider. Especially popular among […]












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Hamilton-Area College Beneficiary of Aircraft Donation
Hamilton-Area College Beneficiary of Aircraft Donation
Aviation industry pioneer Bruce MacRitchie has donated his 1968 Cessna 421 Golden Eagle aircraft to Mohawk College’s Centre for Aviation Technology, based at the John C. Munro International Airport. A ...
Some of this Week’s Other Highlights in Brief
Some of this Week’s Other Highlights in Brief
We reported last December that Bombardier received an order for 12 Challenger 3500 jets. Last week, the Montreal-based aerospace company reported that it had delivered its 100th 3500, which is ...
Nav Canada to End Telephone ATIS Service
Nav Canada to End Telephone ATIS Service
Nav Canada has announced that telephone-based ATIS (Automated Terminal Information Service) will be discontinued early in 2025. The air traffic control service provider blames the service reduction on its telephone ...

Featured Videos


Mission Accomplished : GHW 2021

This year's Give Hope Wings trip originating from Drumheller, Alberta accomplished  the combined goals of reaching Churchill, Manitoba and raising $400,000 for the national charity Hope Air. This video is ...

Float Dreams

What pilot in Canada doesn’t dream of getting a float rating. Some B.C. students give a glimpse of what’s involved and why it’s worth doing ...

406 Mandate

You will need a 406 ELT in your airplane within five years and Artex would like to sell you one so it’s created this short video to explain the mandate ...

ADS-B In Canada

With the mandate looming, avionics companies are waking up to the opportunities. Avidyne prepared this explanatory video ...

Icy Landing

Pilots in winter countries (and sometimes Texas) never really know for sure what the surface of the runway is like on weather days ...

Getting There Is Half The Fun

Ice fishing is the great winter pastime in much of the country and these Manitoba pilots combine both their passions on the winter runways that Mother Nature provides. Thanks to ...
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Recent Incidents

Pilot Decision Making Questioned in Fatal Crash – TSB
In a lengthy accident investigation report released earlier this month that claimed the lives of six men in July 2023, the Transportation Safety Board (TSB) cited inclement weather enroute and pilot decision making as the ...
Unapproved Mods in Crashed Amphib – TSB
The Transportation Safety Board (TSB) released a report this week (Oct. 3) on their investigation into the June 25, 2023 crash of an ICP Savannah amphibious floatplane into Simpson Lake, about 77 nm southwest of ...
BC Helicopter Crash Report Cites Medical Event
In November of 2022 a Geotech Aviation Ltd. Airbus AS350 helicopter was conducting an aerial survey near Kitsault in northwestern British Columbia when it crashed in heavily forested and mountainous terrain, claiming the life of ...
TSB Releases Report on Nunavut King Air Mishap
A Keewatin Air Beechcraft King Air B200, performing a medevac flight in Nunavut on December 17, 2021, veered off an icy Runway 27 in Sanikiluaq (CYSK), on an island in Hudson Bay, when a landing ...
TSB Urges Helicopter Safety Measures Be Implemented
In conjunction with the release of an accident investigation report on the fatal crash in 2021 of an Airbus AS350 helicopter in Nunavut, the Transportation Safety Board (TSB) issued four recommendations to Transport Canada (TC) ...
TSB Releases Cessna 150 Bainsville Crash Report
The Transportation Safety Board released this week its investigation report into the crash of a 1967 Cessna 150 that occurred the night of December 5, 2022. The pilot was attempting an emergency landing on the ...
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