REFLECTOR: Flight to Toronto
Bob Jackson (Jax Tech)
bobj at JaxTechLLC.com
Tue Mar 26 10:54:08 CDT 2013
Great video, Geoff! It was almost 'like being there'!
I flew in and out of the Toronto City airport last summer -- cool airport
and great place to fly to! The only part I didn't like about my trip was
getting the bill afterwards from Canada's FAA equivalent for the air traffic
control services I had received. I forget exactly how much or exactly what
for, but I got several little bills for the service that I had to pay.
Gives you a glimpse into what some are trying to do here in the states. I
don't mind paying for services rendered, but doing it service-by-service and
bill-by-bill is way too messy and inconvenient. I like it better just
adding a few cents to every gallon of gas we buy.
Just curious, Geoff -- how did you have your camera mounted to the winglet?
Suction cup, or something else?
Bob Jackson
N2XF
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From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of Geoff Gerhardt
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 10:56 PM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: REFLECTOR: Flight to Toronto
Guys,
My plane has been flying great so it was time to take it on a long flight.
I'm Canadian and plan to visit my folks (I live in MA, they live in
Saskatchewan) this summer. I've been researching flying to Canada, prepared
all the things I needed and decided to take a trip up to Toronto on Sunday,
just for lunch. It was a nice long flight that would allow me to go through
the border crossing process. It was an excellent flight. Heavy overcast
over most of upstate NY, but we were at ~10k' and it was clear sailing. I
get a steady 150kts LOP burning ~8.3gal/hr. Going there, we were bucking a
bit of a head wind, but on the way back were clocking ~180-185kts GS.
Not sure if any of you have flown into Toronto City Airport, but its quite a
treat as you'll see in the video. The plane performed perfectly, was a very
comfortable flight, ~2.5hrs each way.
Here's a video I put together of the flight:
http://youtu.be/OnKzl4Cneyw
Geoff
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