Common Frequency Areas Survey

I am conducting a research project on Common Frequency Areas such as but not limited to 122.9, 123.02, 122.92. I am mostly doing the study for the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). The study is about the hazards that could be associated with Common Frequency Areas. Such hazards in uncontrolled airspace can be extended to operation within uncontrolled aerodromes.

I have put out a short 10 question survey which would take less than 5 minutes. I would appreciate it if you were to take a short period of your time to help with this research project. My goal for this research is to identify and confirm the hazards and to help increase safety by making an awareness of such hazards.

The survey can be found here http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PY6673Q


Any information given is de-identified and will be used solely for the purpose of the research and nothing else.
Any questions and/or comments can be directed to ramzel14@gmail.com.

Thank you for your time.

My summer "vlog"

With the days filled with sadness that just passed and the slow but sure steady race of moving forward and getting back in the air, I felt a sense of nostalgia so once I got home from Cynthia's funeral, I started re-watching some of my videos and this one I remembered the most because I had just done it this past summer.

So with my lack of blogging over the summer as I promised at the beginning of it, I present you this video which wrapped up my whole entire summer.

Summer COOP 2010 video

I had to use our schools video streaming program because youtube would delete the audio which has content I obviously don't have copyrights to.

Flying Cheap: the race to the bottom

The public has to be aware.
Next time you exit that airplane at your winter vacation, think about the pilot that greets you at the end just outside the flight deck...

Flying Cheap: This is a documentary regarding the airline industry that we have today
Watch and Share

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/flyingcheap/view/

I LIED!

I said I was going to keep this more up to date over the summer because I had something to talk about. Well, that's a lie!
Because I clearly didn't write anything. I'm sorry!


I had to make journals throughout the summer about my time at the work place though..so i'll post one of those


"During the past two weeks, I have done quite a lot of flying and have learned a lot about the charter operations. On Monday, I spent the whole day flying with our maintenance manager. Our first stop was flying to pick up regular clients from a fishing camp near North Bay in Lac Caughnawana. It was in the Caravan and the weather wasn’t the best, luckily we had weather radar on board. We got up to the cottage and the winds weren’t too bad and we got inside after we docked since they were not ready to go just yet. They offered us some desserts and Tom said since we didn’t really have any time to eat because it was a busy and packed day, we accepted.

The client and his friends were still finishing up lunch when we were inside; they were all nonchalant even though in our minds, we didn’t have any time to spare because we would be late to pick up the next passengers.

After dropping them back to Buttonville, we had a quick turn and headed on our way to Taboo golf resort around the Muskokas. We picked up more passengers who spent the weekend there to drop them off at Pearson to go to their international flights. We were late but they understood that delays like this and due to weather can happen. On our way to Pearson, we encountered fairly significant weather that forced us to go a little bit lower. I never used the weather radar prior to this and he got to show me how to use it and read the feed briefly."