Smoke On! Break off! Last Weekends photoshoot. #flying #aviation #avgeek #cytz

Few select photos from our photoship mission. #avgeek #flying #aviation

Planning a VFR flight in smoky conditions? Check out my visibility risk matrix. 0: most likely VMC. 3: Most likely IMC. Read More: fly.blakecrosby.com/2025/06/smok... #flying #aviation #avgeek

Frustrated with trying to predict visibility in smoke. I've created a "Visibility Risk Matrix" to help plan VFR flights during forest fire season. Learn how aerosols and humidity can affect in flight visibility in my latest blog post. #aviation #flying #avgeek fly.blakecrosby.com/2025/06/smok...

Top Google Searches that make it to my blog: 1. C172 PAX Briefing Card 2. LVP a precision or non precision approach 3. How to transit through YYZ airspace 4. IFR Flying In Canada 5. VOR Time Check 6. How to fly at an uncontrolled airport 7. Airway vs. Air Route fly.blakecrosby.com #avgeek #aviation

The importance of strapping in your pets while flying. These two doggos survived a forced landing and crash in Quebec, Canada. www.bst.gc.ca/eng/rapports... #flying #aviation #avgeek

Have you ever filed a composite flight plan? Read my latest blog post to know when and how to take advantage of this rarely used tool. fly.blakecrosby.com/2025/05/comp... #flying #aviation #avgeek #flightplanning #generalaviation

Now that NavCanada has turned off the majority of VORs and NDBs in the country, what is it doing next? #avgeek #flying #aviation fly.blakecrosby.com/2025/04/deat...

I've updated my "Flying in Toronto" how-to article for 2025. #flying #aviation #avgeek fly.blakecrosby.com/2024/06/how-...

473 hours total time so far. Looking forward to breaking 500 this year. #flying #aviation #avgeek

For all you cartography and navigation nerds out there. NavCanada is deprecating the WGS83 coordinate system in favour for the ICAO standard: WGS-84. #flying #aviation #avgeek #cartography #navigation fly.blakecrosby.com/2025/03/nad8...

A quick montage of flying from KHII to KSUX. #avgeek #flying #aviation

For this year's Valentine's day. I present to you the time the previous owner of my plane provided "mile high club" rides in Plane Jane at burning man. #avgeek #flying #aviation #burningman #Valentines

If the ECMWF model forecast holds up, looks like I'll be making my way westbound to KHII on the 7th. With a day break on Sunday to watch the Superbowl in Phoenix. Bless this high pressure sitting over Texas. #avgeek #flying #aviation

New Blog Post! #avgeek #aviation #flying fly.blakecrosby.com/2025/01/roge...

As if flying in IMC to minimums isn't scary enough. Try doing it in a helicopter. TIL that ifr capable helos have a minimum IMC speed. youtu.be/-cJRnN5lRzU?...

How the Canadian Coast Guard rendezvous with a boat to collect a sick crew member. With flight planning! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnn1... #avgeek #aviation #flying

Rough flight plan for my cross country trip to Lake Havasu (KHII) in Feb. This will be the second time flying there (first was back in 2023). Highlights of this trip include The Trinity Site & Scottsdale. Upper winds will play a huge role in the final routing. ~15 hours of air time. #avgeek #flying

If you have any cool or interesting Canadian airports to add to this list. Let me know! (Yes the post title image is a little clickbait as this airport is now closed) fly.blakecrosby.com/2025/01/cool... #flying #aviation #avgeek

Back from my holiday social media break to ask you for help! Let me know which Canadian airport you think is unique or interesting and why. It might just be included in my next blog post (with credit). One of my favourites: CNJ4, which has a taxiway directly into the water for amphibs. #avgeek

Originally posted in 2010. Another Onion classic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya_D...

Learn a few things about cross country flying they did not teach you in ground school! #flying #aviation #avgeek fly.blakecrosby.com/2024/11/tips...

🥹 The flight line hut at CNC3 is looking festive right now. #flying #aviation #avgeek

Top 5 most popular pages on my blog in 2024: 1. Is an LPV Approach a Precision or Non-Precision Approach? 2. How To: VFR Transit Through Toronto (YYZ) Airspace. 3. VOR Time Check 4. Air Routes Vs. Airways. 5. Calculating G-Forces in a Turn. fly.blakecrosby.com #flying #aviation #avgeek

An astronomer comedian explains why we still use knots to calculate nautical speed. #flying #aviation #avgeek www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfdJ...

For those aviators out there who drink. Try a Paper Plane. Traditionally served in a coup. I prefer it on the rocks. 30 ml Bourbon whiskey 30 ml Amaro Nonino 30 ml Aperol 30 ml fresh lemon juice (that's one shot each for the yanks) #flying #aviation #avgeek

🚨 New Blog Post! An overview of NavCanada's OIS. Handy during IFR flight planning into bigger airports. #flying #aviation #avgeek fly.blakecrosby.com/2024/11/how-...

This is why I stopped using weather products from NavCanada. This time last year I gave a webinar on how to use Windy for flight planning. Feel free to check it out. fly.blakecrosby.com/2023/10/usin... #aviation #flying #flightplanning #weather #avgeek

As 2024 slowly winds down. Time to tally up the log book. Thought I would crack 500 TT this year. Alas: Hours: 442.7 Total Time Flights: 351 Will hit the big 5-0 in 2025 for sure. #flying #aviation #avgeek

Veritasium has good overview of what went wrong with Earharts doomed flight. #flying #aviation #avgeek youtu.be/zTDFhWWPZ4Q?...

Decoding metars in the style of Donald Trump, David Attenborough, and Anthony Bourdain. Which is your favourite? (not my original idea) #flying #aviation #avgeek #weather

If there is one thing this Canadian pilots appreciates about flying in the USA. It's the "forecast discussions" aviation meteorologists provide south of the border. Adds a "human touch" to otherwise dry weather data. 🥰 #avgeek #flying #aviation

Saturdays planned sunrise flight back home. High pressure means slow tailwinds eastbound. Better than a headwind! #avgeek #flying #aviation

Sunset over Southern Ontario in a PA32 for #wingwednesday #flying #aviation #avgeek

Temperature gradient? What's that? Tightest freezing level slope I've seen. #avgeek #flying #aviation

Does McDonald's taste better at 6500'? #flying #aviation #avgeek

Next week's rough flight plan. CNC3 to KALN, clearing customs at KDET. VFR. Assuming I can get past the lake effect clouds from Lake Huron. #avgeek #flying #aviation

I wonder if Porter Airlines had anything to do with this 🤣

After years of talking about it. The t-shirt is a reality. Remember kids: CAR 602.14(2)(a)(i) applies when doing city tours in Toronto.

Hi Everyone 👋🏼 An introduction: I'm a Canadian pilot who occasionally writes blog posts and flies my PA32 named Plane Jane. Anything aviation related I post will usually have a Canadian bias towards it. Feel free to follow me on Instagram: www.instagram.com/drunkwithjet...