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Ensuring Safe Winter Operations: Best Practices for De/Anti-icing in Aviation
Transport Canada (TC) is providing this information to renew everyone’s awareness regarding aircraft operations in icing conditions.
2024-2025 Transport Canada’s flight crew recency requirements self-paced study program
Completion of this questionnaire satisfies the 24-month recurrent training program requirements of CARs 401.05(2)(a). It is to be retained by the pilot.
In-flight Icing
In-flight airframe icing occurs when supercooled water freezes on impact with any part of the external structure of an aircraft during flight.
Soar Spots: A Review of Glider Conflictions in Canada
The Safety & Quality (S&Q) team at NAV CANADA has identified glider operations as a driver for conflicts with a heightened risk of collision within controlled airspace.
Back into the Circuit–Changes to the TC AIM
Transport Canada's Aeronautical Information Manual (TC AIM) had a significant update to the guidance on flying visual circuits at controlled and uncontrolled aerodromes in edition 2024-2, published on October 3, 2024.
TSB Report A18P0031—Loss of control and collision with terrain
Beechcraft King Air B100 (King Air), ground icing, experienced an aerodynamic stall as a result of wing contamination. (See PDF for condensed version)
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