Most of my US-based blog friends have voted. We will watch the news with baited breath from this side of the border. 🤞 It's been a wild ride. It will have an impact on Canada, and Canadians. One candidate doesn't understand how tariffs work. We spent 4 years confronting this. He doesn't understand the supply chain, the cars, for example, are built in both our countries, with different plants creating different parts of the while. He doesn't understand that businesses put the cost of tariffs onto the consumer. It's that simple.
Deep breath, people. We shall see what unfolds.
I was awake at 4:30 yesterday. Today I slept in until 5:30, I was so happy!
N331RF - Cessna 208B Grand Caravan [208B0754] - Flightradar24 .
This one was a bit strange, as well! KASI AVIATION SERVICES, from Quebec.
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🛩 'Controlled flight into terrain'
Now, to my title piece, the OPP released this information:
A pilot from Elizabethtown-Kitley was able to walk away with just minor injuries after his small plane crashed near the Smiths Falls Airport. Officers with the Lanark County OPP responded to the Russ Beach Airport, just east of Smiths Falls, shortly after 9:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 2, 2024. A pilot had been conducting a training flight, simulating repeated take off and landing maneuvers, when the Cessna 172 lost power and crashed about half a kilometre from the runway. The pilot, who had been alone in the plane, was able to walk to the Smiths Falls Flying Club’s facility. The Transportation Safety Board (TSB) was notified of the crash.
I had to look it up. Of course! 😎
I tracked the flight: C-GPTW. You can see where the track ends 500m from the airport. The pilot must have had a time getting back to the airport through the bush. This is a plane I often see around. It belongs to the Smiths Falls Flying Club.
The Canadian government TSB investigates incidents.
☔It's been cold, and rainy. Snow tires are on. We're ready. Today, however, we begin with a warm front from the US. Last week it was a cold front from the north!
The lightning, and tornadoes are epic. I feel so badly for people affected by the weather on this continent, and across the pond.
11 comments:
I don’t think I’ll watch the results. Usually I wait until morning because I don’t want to have a miserable night.
Part of sighting airplanes is the sound. That's how I track them, though most disappear in the trees. Your super program that shows everywhere they go must be fun to watch. Glad that pilot walked away, but yes, rough going through the brush must have been a second challenge after the crash.
Even down here in NZ, we are getting good TV coverage of the election, and my hopes are kept silent for now. Colder days, Josh in Vancouver has already put winter tyres on, something most of us in New Zealand do not do,Those in the far south who visit the ski fields often might have a separate set for that. Flight radar, incredible to know we can see the flight path, and where that small plane stopped.That pilot had a long trek. lucky man to escape as he did with his life.
Fingers crossed for the election result. Tightly.
I just hope the election in the States is peaceful.
Looks like student pilots doing circuits.
I don't think we'll know the results until tomorrow morning.
Flight tracking looks interesting but I have so many interests that one more will not work for me. I shall just look at your results.
You would have a great time living near a military establishment. We have quite a flight path here, being under the line from Trenton to Petawawa.
I wonder if those looping planes are dropping rabies vaccines. Referenced here: https://www.loyalist.ca/en/news/mnrf-rabies-control-operations.aspx
...sadly, the election affects the entire free world.
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