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680 News traffic reports
The Weather Network weather forecasting for the communities of Markham and Richmond Hill
Toronto Airways

They can't move anywhere else!

Here are some possibilities:
CYYZ (Toronto Pearson International Airport) can't be used; it handles international traffic and would force lengthy delays for small aircraft (Distance from Toronto: 11.9 KM)
CYTZ (Toronto Billy Bishop International Airport) can't be used; a cramped space would not allow more aircraft and international traffic makes use of a warehouse to be out of the question (Distance from Toronto:  1 KM (due to flying time))
CYZD (Toronto Downsview Airport) Used as a manufacturing facility and cannot be used for the public (Distance from Toronto: approx 15 KM)

The organisations nearest airport that they can use is Oshawa Airport (CYOO) and is more than 40 KM from downtown Toronto and cannot be used as it would take 30 minutes from Oshawa to Toronto. As for the Weather Network, they would have to pay to use land as in Buttonville Airport, the amount of pay was low as it was essential for the Weather Network to conduct forecasting for wind and temperature for the aircraft taking off and landing.

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The New Year

What will you do during the New Year? What will your New Year's Resolution gonna be?
This is what I will be doing:
December 31st: Celebrating my little bro's birthday. I will post a video about him soon (From birth to present)!
January 1st: Celebrate the new year by visiting friends and family!

What will you do? Leave a comment and tell us what you will be doing!

My Horrifying Dream (Continued) - Part 3/5 The Ditching

I swore. At 32 feet and only 121 knots, my wings had no lift left to give. I couldn't turn; my wings would hit something and I would descend faster. I pulled more on my control column. 16 degrees. 33. 37. 44. 45. 45. 45. 45. 45. 45. 45. 45. 45. 45. 45. 45. 33. I pushed on the control column. We were at only 115 knots and I had to find a way to get to at least 118 knots. Otherwise, the plane will break up on impact with the water. 27 feet, 117.5 knots. 118 knots. 12 feet. Here's is a brief explanation of what the plane's instruments were showing:
Altimeter: 9 feet
Speed: 118.4 knots.
Descent Rate: 221 feet/minute
Flaps: 2 degrees
Radio Altimeter: 12 feet.
I was far ahead of downtown Toronto and this was a very scary experience. Furthermore, I was dangerously far from the land. Maybe 2000 feet from the land. 3 feet. I left my instruments and I braced. We hit hard. All I saw now was water pouring over the windshield. This is it. I looked up. "THE DITCHING BUTTON!". I forgot to press it. Now, with no power to anything, it wouldn't work. It was to late. I looked back. Thousands of gallons of water were pouring in. I couldn't get out yet. I had a 3 page evacuation and after-ditching checklists to complete. And those, would take me at least 4 minutes for both my co-pilot and I to complete.
Start Levers. Off.
Cross levers. Off.
Engine Thrust. Idle.
Reset. On/Off.
Auto-throttle. Off.
Autopilot. Off and disengaged.
Evacuation Checklist Complete.
After-ditching checklist.
Start Columns. Neutral...
When we finished both checklist, the ice cold water was at my waist. "Let's get out of here" My co-pilot listened to me, and amazed that I ditched the plane successfully. Something he probably couldn't do. It was an extremely difficult aviation feat. I opened the over-wing exit doors and we jumped on the wing of the plane. I closed the door.There was only one hitch. I was dumb enough to not go on the emergency exit door which had a raft that could be detached from the aircraft and the other was that I chose to exit from the right side which was further away from land. Now, no one can see us from their view. The wing was slippery and I fell of twice and as every second went by, the lower into the water the aircraft went, and the chance of me and my instructor surviving, was dissolving away.

To Be Continued...

What On Earth Is This?!?

Qantas flight 32

Hit birds?
no.
No Fuel?
no.
What?
The engine broke itself. Literally.

Part 1/2 (Left)
Part 2/2 (Right)

My Horrifying Dream (Continued) - Part 2/5 The Glide

"Yeah, you need to come back to Toronto, uh, Turn right 180. You have about a 100 miles to fly"
I was already rolled into the right turn, and I switched on the Auxiliary Power Unit or APU. It's an emergency generator. Engines not only provide thrust, but the power required to manipulate the aircraft. My co-pilot began reading our descent rate (1000 feet/minute), speed (220 knots) and altitude (21 800 feet) to determine if we could make Toronto. We had 22 minutes to fly. No more. When we were about 60 miles from the airport. Now we had 11 minutes to fly and 11 260 feet in the air, we have awful news. We will not make Toronto Pearson Int'l Airport and Toronto City Centre Airport are out of question. We can make City Centre Airport but it will be too dangerous. The runway that is used for landings is too short for our plane and the runway that we would have to land on would be too dangerous: 25 knots of crosswind would be too dangerous to land. If we were to land, we risk a big chance of overshooting their runway and breaking up in the water. There was only one other place to land. Lake Ontario. Ditching in Lake Ontario would be extremely difficult. If not impossible. 4 minutes to fly. I radioed to the controller "Toronto Tower, Learjet Golf Zulu, we're gonna be in the water. 2 600 feet. City Centre Airport was 3 miles ahead of us. I knew that the best chance of surviving, was going beside the airport. We would hit the water about 6 miles ahead of the airport. A dangerous distance from downtown. Now the plane was at 178 knots, as I was getting ready for the ditching. I was too high and I had to do another dangerous maneuver to lose altitude but not speed. The side slip. I got down to 540 feet and 142 knots. I brought the plane to a pitch of 12 degrees for the ditching and reduced the descent rate. The altimeter read 40 feet. I just passed City Centre Airport and I saw a tree, and boats.

To be continued...

Happy Holidays!

To those celebrating Hanukkah, Aerospot wishes you a happy celebration. Happy Hanukkah!
To those celebrating Christmas, Aerospot wishes you a happy celebration. Merry Christmas!
To those celebrating Diwali, Aerospot wishes you a happy celebration. Happy Diwali!
To those celebrating Kwanzaa, Aerospot wishes you a happy celebration. Happy Kwanzaa!
If your celebration is not here, sorry, but Aerospot wish you a happy celebration!
Happy Holidays!

My Horrifying Dream - Part 1/5 Gear Up

"Mayday Mayday Mayday, Learjet Charlie Golf Zulu Hotel Alpha, We've lost both engines, We're turning back toward Toronto. Now out of FL230"

A Learjet 85

I was about to earn my flight license. This plane was a brand-new Learjet 85.I was on my last test flight, out of Buttonville Airport to Ottawa MacDonald Cartier Int'l Airport. "Learjet Golf Zulu, cleared for takeoff runway 15". I pushed the throttles forward. My engines instruments read full power and accelerating through 30 knots. I looked out of my window excited about finally getting to fly. "80 Knots" my co-pilot yelled out. "Confirmed". We were now about 800 metres from the end of the runway. "V1". "Rotate". We were at 136 knots. I pulled back on to my control column. I was looking at my altimeter. Ground level was 576 feet. We started climbing. 580. 590. 600. 610. 630. 655. 680. We were 100 feet in the air. "Positive rate, gear up". My co-pilot retracted the landing gear. "V2" He yelled out. He then reduced thrust to idle on the number 2 engine. "Engine failure number 2". It was a simple process to fix and I was up for it. I was not allowed to increase thrust from the number 2 engine. I changed the pitch trim and tail trim to keep the plane level and climbing. "Learjet Charlie Golf Zulu, contact Toronto Departure on 121.75. Good Day". "Going to 121.75, Learjet Golf Zulu". I switched our transpnder to the setting. "Toronto Departure, Learjet Golf Zulu 900 climbing one zero thousand (10 000)."Roger, Learjet Golf Zulu, turn left heading 080". I rolled the plane into a left turn. "Turning left 080, Learjet Golf Zulu". I showed my co-pilot that I succesfully passed the engine failure test. I set thrust for both engines at 80 N1 (Climb thrust). We were now at 10 000 feet about 30 miles from Buttonville. "Learjet Golf Zulu, resume own navigation, contact Toronto Center on 121.9". I responded with the usual responses and we got to
22 000 feet (FL220). 30 seconds later... Boom. Alerts going on in the cockpit. I look at my engine instruments. 70 N1. 60 N1. 50 N1. 20 N1. -2 N1. No thrust. This was not at all suppose to happen. The co-pilot was surprised and decided not to take control of the aircraft from me. I was already handling the engine failure and the shaking control column and he knew I was flying the aircraft well. We were 95 miles from our nearest major airport with full emergency support. And that was Toronto Pearson International Airport. From only 22 000 feet, it would be very hard to glide that such distance, if we could. I shouted:
"Mayday Mayday Mayday, Toronto Center, Learjet Golf Zulu is 19 miles of CYGK, we've lost both engines, now out of FL220.

To be continued...

Such a Day!

So many prizes! So many prizes won! Lots of fun!

The Phoster Poster

A Twisted Ankle

Horrible! I TWISTED MY ANKLE!

That's my cast! Apparently, my doctor diagnosed me with a twisted ankle today.  I have no idea how I twisted it, all I know is that it happened during the night and it started to come as I woke up this morning. My bone was sticking out and my foot wanted to go on its left side and I was limping. It hurts and I have to keep the cast on for about 2 weeks! Hopefully, it will heal by then. Or earlier.

The Hobbit: Chapter 1

The Hobbit: Chapter 1

Bilbo Baggins holds a tea party with the wizard Gandalf not knowing that he has also invited a team of dwarves to join his party. Why did Bilbo choose to hold a tea party? My reaction to the chapter was that Bilbo chose to hold the tea party. Maybe Bilbo was thinking "Who is this wizard to let things go straight out of hand"?

My Instructional Video!

Watch me explain to you how to make a grilled cheese sandwich!!!

The password is the normal one for the Instructional Video Projects. It's in your Google Docs!

Statistics Report:

Statistics Report: December 11th 2011 at 9:27 PM

Pageviews by countries:
Canada...........................2927
Russia.............................157
United States...................63
Norway...........................15
Germany.........................11
France.............................3
Brazil..............................2
United Kingdom...............2
Malaysia.........................2
Poland............................2

Total Pageviews: 3186

GRAD GUY

GRAD GUY:
 My Comics.

1)Talking Airplanes...................Release Date: December 12th 2011
2) My New iPod........................Release Date: December 19th 2011
3) Giving Presents......................Release Date: December 26th 2011
4) About the Holidays................Release Date: January 2st 2012

The Hobbit

My Novel:

The Hobbit
By J.R.R. Tolkien

3000 Views?

3000 VIEWS!

Can you believe it? We now have 3000 views!

Our Instructional Video Project

My Instructional Video Project: How to Make a Grilled Cheese Sandwich

My Video: Click Here

What I think I did well:

• Planned the video well
• Taught in a way a 5 year old would understand
• Had a good idea on what to say
• No hesitations or pausing (except the time I found there was holes in the bread! That was very unexpected and surprising for me! If you watch my video, you can really see what happened at 01:40 of the video!)
• Chose good music to go with the video
• Was able to learn how to quickly use Pinnacle (a video making software used by pros)
• Was able to edit cleanly and fix and crop unwanted video

What I think I could improve or do differently:

• Try to figure out how to adjust the volume for the clips and the background music (Couldn't find out how!)
• Try and get iMovie to be with the same level as the class
• Seek more feedback from friends to find their opinion

When my video comes, watch it and give feedback below on this post! If you having something you want to see on this post? Put a comment below to see it appear within minutes! I enjoy everyone comments! Creative criticism, feedback and everything!

Pilot vs. Plane

Air France flight 296

Watch the video. Do you think that this accident is caused by system malfunction or pilot error? Leave a comment to claim what you think.

My Favourite Video

Take a look at :

Dark Falcon - How to make an omelette
Smiley Dude - How to make a loaf of bread
Red Rose - How to do a sidekick
John Kelso - How to disarm someone
Nuclear Boii - How to get out of trouble
and...
Aerospot - How to make a grilled cheese sandwich

And many more videos!

The links to the other videos will come soon!
Enjoy our videos!

My Favourite Phoster

I had a few so I will put each Phoster that caught my eye:

This one caught my eye since the words "LEST WE FORGET" made me remember of Rememberance Day, which to me, is such a memorable event.

This one caught my eye because it showed be a dock which appears to be very long and a light blue sky and tells me a message: Go on, Go as long as you can go, there is no end to things"

This one caught my eye since it tells me to read everywhere no matter where you are, even if you're in bed.

My Best Friends

To me, everyone, really everyone, is my family. Everyone is MY brother and sister. It's how I think of everyone. You are all my friends! Forever.

Birthday Cake