Gatineau would also be a good candidate for the new digital remote tower facility Nav is building at Kingston. Aside from YOW, Gatineau would be the next closest tower to Kingston, so it would be an easier transition technology and connectivity-wise as opposed to transitioning another tower in SW On...

That's really, really surprising. Especially as we've been in a phase for decades of downsizing and closing any airport where GA is the majority of traffic. Some other plan or strategy in the works? I just think NavCanada is starting to really invest in increasing service. Just a few years ago they...

Following an Aeronautical Study that showed a large increase in traffic levels, NavCanada is now recommending that Gatineau change from a FSS to a Control Tower.

https://www.navcanada.ca/en/scr/_locali ... 162026.pdf

As a former Sunwing pilot, once I started reading the story, I took a guess for myself if I would know who the pilot was. After a minute of thinking, the one and only name that came to mind was Darren's. Upon reading further and seeing his name, I said to myself "Yup, that tracks." So for those defe...

Now if I had access to that document I would know that :wink: Well, I don't know what else to say. For the last time, this document is proprietary to NavCanada and they have no obligation to share it with you or anyone else they don't want to. You can lay out all the hypotheticals that you can thin...

Why not? It's the same organization that initiates CADORs for pilots. Why can't pilots look at ATC's manuals to see if any possible violations take place and report it accordingly? For the same reason that I don't need to know Air Canada's operational procedures to see if they've committed some sor...

NavCanada has a monopoly on ATC services in Canada. That's a huge difference. Having a monopoly or not has no bearing on whether an organization shall/should disclose internal operational documents. There's no rule that says "This organization has a monopoly. They must disclose their operations man...

Do you know what the reasoning is to keep this document secret from pilots? Seems a bit bizarre. Do you know what the reasoning is to keep this document secret from pilots? Seems a bit bizarre. Because NavCanada has deemed it proprietary information. Same as Air Canada not publishing their SOP's or...

MATS replaced MANOPS a few years ago. You can find old copies of MANOPS online. While it's presented differently, MANOPS fundamentally is the same as MATS. As well, MATS is based off of the CARS and AIM RAC (Rules of the Air and Air Traffic Services), so referencing those documents may answer your q...

It's simpler than that. Just stop allowing multiple simultaneous clearances to the same runway. Do one at a time. One plane cleared to land; the one first on final. . One truck cleared to cross; when no planes are also cleared to land. The simultaneous clearances are the root cause problem. Without...

Been operating both biz/airline out of YYZ since 2002 and cannot for the life of me remember a worse all around service and seems to be getting worse. Over the past few months I have arrived at all hours and in all conditions to be asked to slow down on 95% of my flights. I fly into LAX, ORD, MDW, ...

Was that on every flight, or only on longer ones where you don't have enough fuel to legally make it to your destination with 10% contingency so you have a 'phantom' destination in the middle where you're never intending to go anyway? No we never had a "phantom destination." Everything was legit an...

At my old 705 airline, I believe it was a requirement of the dispatchers to check that the alternate weather still was legal at least once during the flight. That is, a legal alternate was determined before departure and that was filed on the flight plan. Then, around the midpoint of the flight, the...

Airlines use their own programs and some have meteorologists on staff. There are lots of ways to retrieve METAR/TAF data that’s not on the NavCanada site. The weather is produced by NavCanada and disseminated out to the various websites, apps, etc. An airline dispatch operation isn't producing thei...

You’re not accurate. The metars and tafs are still available. Just because you can’t see them via a certain outlet doesn’t mean there isn’t any. I'm a tower controller, and we didn't have any METAR information. I spoke to our American counterparts and they couldn't see any of our weather either. I ...

For those of you not in the know, there is currently a complete nation-wide loss of aviation weather. The NavCanada site, third-party apps and even the FAA's METAR page are showing no information for all Canadian airports. There are still TAF's that were produced a few hours ago, but soon they'll st...

porcsord wrote: ↑Sun Dec 14, 2025 9:18 am What bot filled hell hole is this thread? Mods should lock this.

Bot? I was just trying to help answer a question someone had.

Look at my past history (Joined Avcanada in 2008) and you'll see I'm not a bot.

It looks like Nav is starting to hire controllers with prior experience. It doesn't mention anything about the legal right to work in Canada, but it also doesn't mention anything about Nav sponsoring visas. If you're not a Canadian citizen or permanent resident, maybe consider applying! Vancouver To...

Bombardier to Provide Six Multi-role Aircraft to support the Royal Canadian Air Force https://bombardier.com/en/media/news/bombardier-provide-six-multi-role-aircraft-support-royal-canadian-air-force Bombardier is proud to announce the Government of Canada has purchased six Global 6500 aircraft to pe...

I really envy the airport you work at DHC, you seem like a very competent and professional controller. I've noticed a trend that generally the bigger the airport, the more professional and competent the controllers. Unfortunately, there are many of your colleagues who don't make the cut to work at ...

Here are the links to file a report: As a pilot https://www.bst.gc.ca/eng/incidents-occurrence/aviation/index.html That's not the place to report a safety concern or a ATCO who f'cked up. Follow the other links within the link I posted. It specifically says that a pilot can report: 9. A collision o...

Also ,keep in mind ANYONE can file a CADORS, not just controllers. Airport operators and pilots alike can file them too. Really? How does a pilot make a CADORs entry? Remember, no one "Files a CADORS" directly, so I may have used incorrect phraseology. CADORS is just the term for the amalgamation o...

DHC-1 Jockey, out of curiosity then, once it becomes mandatory to read back things like ATIS identifiers, or hold-short instructions (which were already required... but not "mandatory") will ATC then begin filing CADORS reports on pilots who do not? First, controller's don't file CADORS. We file Av...

As a controller, how would you react if an aircraft on final would check in with information D, but F is active by now? Would this not create *more* radio chatter for something that just doesn't matter anymore at that time ? Despite my better judgement, I'll bite and try to answer this question wit...

To be honest, I've requested to do very similar things even though I knew it was on the ATIS. I've also been cleared for an approach into a runway that was supposedly closed on the ATIS. It's not often treated with a lot of respect by ATC, which make me very weary of really trusting that the inform...