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Window-Washing Drones

It seems that there is no end to innovative and imaginative uses and applications for drones. SkyDweller Technologies of Victoria, British Columbia, founded just last July, is using a drone to wash building façades and […]














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Harbour Air To Start 'Wheeled' Service
Harbour Air To Start ‘Wheeled’ Service
Vancouver-based Harbour Air has announced it will begin service between Vancouver International's South Terminal and Victoria using Twin Otters on wheels. The service begins Nov. 4. The airline curretly uses ...
Some of This Week's Other Highlights In Brief
Some of This Week’s Other Highlights In Brief
Q400 For Central Mountain Air BC-based Central Mountain Air has begun operations on its largest airframe to date. The regional carrier, which serves mainly coastal and northern communities, is using ...
Window-Washing Drones
Window-Washing Drones
It seems that there is no end to innovative and imaginative uses and applications for drones. SkyDweller Technologies of Victoria, British Columbia, founded just last July, is using a drone ...

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

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 ...
Sunrise Glare a Possible Collision Factor – TSB Report
Glare from a rising sun last September may have been a factor in the fatal collision between a Cessna 172 doing pipeline work and a communications tower near Shaunavon, Saskatchewan. The accident claimed the lives ...
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