118.7 wrote:IAB
First time poster....on and off lurker. Generally speaking, anything posted here about YYZ ATC ops is speculative garbage and not worth reading. It's good to see something different posted about YYZ.
We did enjoy the approach - 3 mi. north at 3000 ft, verrry tight base leg grounding 200 knots til turning final, still pretty speedy over the threshold, and squeaks past 33R on the rollout easily making "P".
What's not to like? Slam Dunk! Wish we saw more of that during the quieter times. For a moment we thought you may be aiming for 24R with that kind of speed. (We had turned off the lights momentarily to resolve a lighting issue and figured it may have caused some confusion.)
After your "I'm from the north" comment you threw out a "birddog" comment as well - got us talking about what a birddog's role is all about.
Anyway, a great approach. Are you a regular at YYZ now?
For those in the maintenance dept. @ my company...no flaps were used in this landing therefore no limitations were exceeded...in fact I'm not really sure where the flap handle is in the airplane...actually I don't know too much about anything that has to do with that aircraft... 
HEY 118.7 & YYZguy thanks for the reply
I didn't expect one, but this is fun. Yes I'm in and out of the mighty CYYZ often doing that run from time to time...you'll know it's me because I usually sound like I just 'woke' up...(autopilots are a new thing to me
).
In Brief...Birddog is an old military term. A Birddog pilot would
swoop into potential targets fire off some rocket bombs marking the spot for the "bombers" to aim for and then the birddog aircraft pulls away. So this term was adopted by the forest fire program...however now-a-days a birddog's role is kinda like an ATC function and the fun has been taken out due to nervous flyers sitting in the right seat, the old school way of fullfilling this role is a lost art.
Anyway...I wish you folks could see how pretty YYZ is at a certain time of day...I wrote a little prose about it...ignore the fluff but it pretty much sums up the approach into the 'big smoke'!
http://www.avcanada.ca/forums2/viewtopic.php?t=23825
Talk to you soon! check your PM's
